November 01, 2016

Why Neural Translations are the Right Length

Shi, Xing and Knight, Kevin and Yuret, Deniz. 2016. Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing pp 2278--2282, Austin, Texas. (PDF)

Abstract

We investigate how neural, encoder-decoder translation systems output target strings of appropriate lengths, finding that a collection of hidden units learns to explicitly implement this functionality.


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