FGraDA: A Dataset and Benchmark for Fine-Grained Domain Adaptation in Machine Translation (2022.lrec-1)
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Wenhao Zhu, Shujian Huang, Tong Pu, Pingxuan Huang, Xu Zhang, Jian Yu, Wei Chen, Yanfeng Wang, Jiajun Chen
| Challenge: | Recent research on domain adaptation neglects diversity in translation within a domain . current research on NMT models considers very broad target domains . |
| Approach: | They propose a fine-grained domain adaptation task for autonomous vehicles, AI education, real-time networks, and smart phone. |
| Outcome: | The proposed task is compared with a dataset of Chinese-English translation tasks for four sub-domains of information technology: autonomous vehicles, AI education, real-time networks, and smart phone. |
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