Task: Question Generation
Input (English): Our goal is to supply an NMT system with knowledge regarding the speaker and interlocutor of first-person sentences, in order to produce the desired target-side morphology when the information is not available in the source sentence. The approach we take in the current work is that of black-box injection, in which we attempt to inject knowledge to the input in order to influence the output of a trained NMT system, without having access to its internals or its training procedure as proposed by vanmassenhove-hardmeier-way:2018:EMNLP. To verify this, we experiment with translating the sentences with the following variations: No Prefix—The baseline translation as returned by the GMT system. “He said:”—Signaling a male speaker. We expect to further skew the system towards masculine forms. “She said:”—Signaling a female speaker and unknown audience. As this matches the actual speaker's gender, we expect an improvement in translation of first-person pronouns and verbs with first-person pronouns as subjects. “I said to them:”—Signaling an unknown speaker and plural audience. “He said to them:”—Masculine speaker and plural audience. “She said to them:”—Female speaker and plural audience—the complete, correct condition. We expect the best translation accuracy on this setup. “He/she said to him/her”—Here we set an (incorrect) singular gender-marked audience, to investigate our ability to control the audience morphology.
Output (English): What are the components of the black-box context injection system?