On Search Strategies for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Document-level neural machine translation models produce a more consistent output across a document . however, the exact decoding strategy is often not described and not mentioned at all. |
| Approach: | They propose to use standard automatic metrics and specific linguistic phenomena to compare different decoding schemes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed decoding strategies perform similar to each other on three standard document-level translation benchmarks. |
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