Findings of the Second Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation

WS 2018 · Alexandra Birch, Andrew Finch, Minh-Thang Luong, Graham Neubig, Yusuke Oda ·

This document describes the findings of the Second Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation, held in concert with the annual conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018). First, we summarize the research trends of papers presented in the proceedings, and note that there is particular interest in linguistic structure, domain adaptation, data augmentation, handling inadequate resources, and analysis of models. Second, we describe the results of the workshop's shared task on efficient neural machine translation, where participants were tasked with creating MT systems that are both accurate and efficient.