@InProceedings{carpuat-vyas-niu:2017:NMT, author = {Carpuat, Marine and Vyas, Yogarshi and Niu, Xing}, title = {Detecting Cross-Lingual Semantic Divergence for Neural Machine Translation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Neural Machine Translation}, month = {August}, year = {2017}, address = {Vancouver}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {69--79}, abstract = {Parallel corpora are often not as parallel as one might assume: non-literal translations and noisy translations abound, even in curated corpora routinely used for training and evaluation. We use a cross-lingual textual entailment system to distinguish sentence pairs that are parallel in meaning from those that are not, and show that filtering out divergent examples from training improves translation quality.}, url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3209} }