Exploring NMT Explainability for Translators Using NMT Visualising Tools

Gabriela González Sáez, Mariam Nakhlé, James Turner, Fabien Lopez, Nicolas Ballier, Marco Dinarelli, Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier, Sui He, Raheel Qader, Caroline Rossi, Didier Schwab, Jun Yang

Abstract: This paper describes work in progress on Visualisation tools to foster collaborations between translators and computational scientists. We aim to describe how visualisation features can be used to explain translation and NMT outputs. We tested several visualisation functionalities with three NMT models based on Chinese-English, Spanish-English and French-English language pairs. We created three demos containing different visualisation tools and analysed them within the framework of performance-explainability, focusing on the translator’s perspective.