{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/faithful-target-attribute-prediction-in","title":"Faithful Target Attribute Prediction in Neural Machine Translation","arxiv_id":"2109.12105","date":"2021-09-24","proceeding":null,"authors":["Xing Niu","Georgiana Dinu","Prashant Mathur","Anna Currey"],"abstract":"The training data used in NMT is rarely controlled with respect to specific attributes, such as word casing or gender, which can cause errors in translations. We argue that predicting the target word and attributes simultaneously is an effective way to ensure that translations are more faithful to the training data distribution with respect to these attributes. Experimental results on two tasks, uppercased input translation and gender prediction, show that this strategy helps mirror the training data distribution in testing. It also facilitates data augmentation on the task of uppercased input translation.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12105v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.12105v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"faithful-target-attribute-prediction-in","repo_url":"https://github.com/amazon-research/gendered-profession-translations","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"attribute","task_name":"Attribute"},{"task_slug":"data-augmentation","task_name":"Data Augmentation"},{"task_slug":"gender-prediction","task_name":"Gender Prediction"},{"task_slug":"machine-translation","task_name":"Machine Translation"},{"task_slug":"nmt","task_name":"NMT"},{"task_slug":"prediction","task_name":"Prediction"},{"task_slug":"translation","task_name":"Translation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}