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Using natural language prompts for machine translation

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arxiv 2202.11822 v1 pith:U2LMUEW2 submitted 2022-02-23 cs.CL

classification cs.CL
keywords languagenaturalpromptstranslationfine-tuninglanguagesmachinemodels
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We explore the use of natural language prompts for controlling various aspects of the outputs generated by machine translation models. We demonstrate that natural language prompts allow us to influence properties like formality or specific dialect of the output. We show that using language names to control the output language of multilingual translation models enables positive transfer for unseen language pairs. This unlocks the ability to translate into languages not seen during fine-tuning by using their English names. We investigate how scale, number of pre-training steps, number of languages in fine-tuning, and language similarity affect this phenomenon.

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