Multi-modal simultaneous machine translation fusion of image information

Abstract

Simultaneous translation is to translate a sentence before people finish it, to understand the speaker's intention in real-time. At present, simultaneous machine translation still relies on text-to-text data resources. However, the output information from the encoder side is used for the decoder as the input data recourse in the pure text translation system. This information is only derived from the text content, and the input information is single, causing a shortage of decoding information at the decoder and the vocabulary is missed in translation. The translator will also visually capture the information of the surrounding scenes to assist himself in the translation work, based on this feature, we propose a multi-modal simultaneous machine translation of fusion image information. We extract information from the image, add the information to the decoder side of the translation system, increase the input data resource of the decoder, and help the system improve the translation quality. We use the Multi30K dataset for experimental verification. Compared with the translation system of plain text, the method we propose can translate more complete sentences, richer content, and better translation results.