Linguistic knowledge injected into large language model for Urdu-English neural machine translation
摘要
To address the issue of semantic distortion in translation caused by structural differences between Urdu and English, a linguistically informed large-model-based Urdu-English neural machine translation method is proposed. Given that current general-purpose large models are predominantly trained on high-resource languages like English, they struggle to capture the specific grammar, complex morphological variations, and idiomatic expressions of Urdu. In this paper, first designs an adaptive multi-layer linguistic injection method that integrates lexical, syntactic, and semantic features into the large language model. These features include key linguistic markers such as tense, gender, and politeness; syntactic transformations between Subject-Verb-Object and Subject-Object-Verb structures; as well as idiomatic expressions and cultural differences. Next, a multi-knowledge integration and prompting technique is employed to dynamically adjust translations based on sentence complexity. Finally, Low-Rank Adaptation is used for efficient parameter fine-tuning, further enhancing translation performance. Experimental results demonstrate that this method significantly outperforms traditional neural machine translation systems, achieving a notable improvement in + 4.7 BLEU scores.