Machine Translation Weekly 69: One-Short learning in MT
This week I will discuss a paper about the one-shot vocabulary learning
abilities of machine translation. The title of the paper is Continuous
Learning in Neural Machine Translation using Bilingual
Dictionaries and will be presented at EACL
in May this year. A very similar idea is also presented in a paper
Facilitating Terminology Translation with Target Lemma
Annotations that will be presented at the
same conference.
One-shot learning is the ability to learn from a single example. In the context
of translation, it means the ability to translate a word or an expression once
you are told what the correct translation is or you just look it up in the
dictionary. Because I am a human and not a machine translation system, I was
able to phone my