Neural Fuzzy Repair: Integrating Fuzzy Matches into Neural Machine Translation (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Several configurations are tested on the DGT-TM data set for the language directions English into Dutch (ENNL) and English into Hungarian (ENHU). |
| Approach: | They propose and test two methods for augmenting NMT training data with fuzzy TM matches by concatenation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on the DGT-TM data set for two language pairs and is easy to implement. |
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