| Challenge: | Existing methods to generate diverse translations use different sentence structures . Xu et al., 2018: generating multiple valid translations with high diversity is difficult . |
| Approach: | They propose to use sentence codes to condition the sentence generation to obtain diverse translations . they propose to sample multiple candidates, each of which conditioned on a unique code . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates paraphrase translations with drastically different structures . the proposed method can be easily adopted to existing translation systems . |
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