Consistency is a key requirement of high-quality translation. It is especially important to adhere to pre-approved terminology and corrected translations in domain-specific projects. Machine translation (MT) has achieved significant progress in the area of domain adaptation. However, real-time adaptation remains challenging. Large-scale language models (LLMs) have recently shown interesting capabilities of in-context learning, where they learn to replicate certain input-output text generation patterns, without further fine-tuning. By feeding an LLM with a prompt that consists of a list of translation pairs, it can then simulate the domain and style characteristics at inference time. This work aims to investigate how we can utilize in-context learning to improve real-time adaptive MT. Our extensive experiments show promising results at translation time. For example, GPT-3.5 can adapt to a set of in-domain sentence pairs and/or terminology while translating a new sentence. We observe that the translation quality with few-shot in-context learning can surpass that of strong encoder-decoder MT systems, especially for high-resource languages. Moreover, we investigate whether we can combine MT from strong encoder-decoder models with fuzzy matches, which can further improve the translation, especially for less supported languages. We conduct our experiments across five diverse languages, namely English-to-Arabic (EN-AR), English-to-Chinese (EN-ZH), English-to-French (EN-FR), English-to-Kinyarwanda (EN-RW), and English-to-Spanish (EN-ES) language pairs.

本文旨在探究如何利用上下文学习的方法来提高实时自适应机器翻译的质量，并研究将强编码器-解码器模型和模糊匹配相结合以进一步提高翻译质量的方法。已在五个大不同的语言对上展开了实验。

使用大型语言模型的自适应机器翻译