Challenge: Existing approaches to generate adversarial examples for NMT use the meaning-preserving restriction.
Approach: They propose a new definition for adversarial examples based on the Doubly Round-Trip Translation (DRTT) they introduce masked language models to construct bilingual adversarials based upon DRTT .
Outcome: The proposed approach significantly improves the robustness of the NMT model on clean and noisy test sets.

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