Gender Aware Spoken Language Translation Applied to English-Arabic

2018/02/26 by Elaraby, Mostafa, Tawfik, Ahmed Y., Khaled, Mahmoud +2 · 2 citations
#Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1802.09287

Abstract

Spoken Language Translation (SLT) is becoming more widely used and becoming a communication tool that helps in crossing language barriers. One of the challenges of SLT is the translation from a language without gender agreement to a language with gender agreement such as English to Arabic. In this paper, we introduce an approach to tackle such limitation by enabling a Neural Machine Translation system to produce gender-aware translation. We show that NMT system can model the speaker/listener gender information to produce gender-aware translation. We propose a method to generate data used in adapting a NMT system to produce gender-aware. The proposed approach can achieve significant improvement of the translation quality by 2 BLEU points.

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