Why are we still translating sentences ?

Conférence :

The technology and architectures underlying machine translation have changed a number of times over the decades, but apart from occasional research projects, the basic unit of translation has always been, and remains, the sentence. This paradigm persists despite the many clear advantages of translating at the document level, and it grows more glaring as much of NLP technology moves to large language models, which are natively document-based. This talk will survey research in document translation, highlighting difficulties in training, models, and evaluation. We then propose simple, workable solutions in each of these areas that may help the field escape its sentence-level rut. Joint work with Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt.