Exploiting Semantics in Neural Machine Translation with Graph Convolutional Network
Diego Marcheggiani, Joost Bastings, Ivan S. Titov · Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) · 2018
Semantic representations have long been argued as potentially useful for enforcing meaning preservation and improving generalization performance of machine translation methods. In this work, we are the first to incorporate information about predicate-argument structure of source sentences (namely, semantic-role representations) into neural machine translation. We use Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to inject a semantic bias into sentence encoders and achieve improvements in BLEU scores over the linguistic-agnostic and syntax-aware versions on the English–German language pair.