Improving the quality of machine translation using the reverse model

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The article proposes a method to improve machine translation consistency and quality between different languages, especially for smaller language areas with limited data. The article presents a theoretical justification for the proposed approach and describes the experiments conducted to validate the method. The authors suggest training the translation model to generate translations that closely match the source text when translated back and forth between the target and source languages. The proposed method uses a reverse model derived from the likelihood of cyclic translations. The paper shows that this method improves both consistency and translation quality by providing the forward model with information from the reverse model. The article discusses the challenges associated with the proposed method, such as the need to simultaneously store gradients for direct and reverse models at each training iteration and high variance of gradients in the initial iterations of training. The authors present a solution to these challenges by fine-tuning the already pre-trained translation model, which saves computational resources and converges faster than training from scratch. The experiments were carried out in the Russian-to-Kazakh and English-to-Finnish language areas, and the results show that the proposed method improves the consistency of translations and the overall translation quality. This article presents an important contribution to the field of natural language text processing by proposing a method to improve machine translation quality and consistency. The theoretical justification for the proposed method and the detailed description of the experiments conducted make this article a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the field.





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