journal article·2023-12-01Open access

Neural Machine Translation Research on Syntactic Information Fusion Based on the Field of Electrical Engineering

Yanna Sang, Yuan Chen, Juwei Zhang

Applied Sciences· Volume 13· Issue 23

Abstract

Neural machine translation has achieved good translation results, but needs further improvement in low-resource and domain-specific translation. To this end, the paper proposed to incorporate source language syntactic information into neural machine translation models. Two novel approaches, namely Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training(CLIP) and Cross-attention Fusion (CAF), were compared to a base transformer model on EN–ZH and ZH–EN pair machine translation focusing on the electrical engineering domain. In addition, an ablation study on the effect of both proposed methods was presented. Among them, the CLIP pre-training method improved significantly compared with the baseline system, and the BLEU values in the EN–ZH and ZH–EN tasks increased by 3.37 and 3.18 percentage points, respectively.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Natural Language Processing Techniques · Topic Modeling · Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

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Affiliations

School of Information Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China

Henan Province New Energy Vehicle Power Electronics and Power Transmission Engineering Research Center, Luoyang 471023, China

School of Foreign Languages, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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