Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation with Word-Level Domain Context Discrimination (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Experimental results on Chinese-English and English-French multi-domain translation tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model. |
| Approach: | They propose to use mixed-domain parallel sentences to construct a unified model that allows translation to switch between different domains. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model distinguishes and exploits word-level domain contexts on Chinese-English and English-French translation tasks. |
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