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Presentation 2020-03-03 11:20
Adversarial Attack against Neural Machine Translation Systems
Takeshi Sakamoto, Tatsuya Mori (Waseda Univ.) ICSS2019-89
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(in English) It has been widely known that systems empowered by neural network algorithms are vulnerable against an intrinsic attack named ``adversarial example'', which can be generated by adding small perturbations to the original inputs, aiming at fooling the systems. In this paper, we target Neural Machine Translation (NMT) and present attacks that change the meaning of sentences by adding small perturbations to the translated sentences (Adversarial text). This attack can intentionally control the nuance of meanings for documents such as contracts, products, reviews and postings to SNS by politicians or experts, which may play a vital role in making a decision.
In this work, we adopt Google translate as a widely used NMT system and apply our attack using common sentences to study the effectiveness of the attack. We demonstrate that the meaning of sentences could be changed by 55% and the success rate is higher than the existing methods that target text classification applications.
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(in English) Adversarial Example / Neural Machine Translation / Homoglyph / / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 119, no. 437, ICSS2019-89, pp. 125-130, March 2020.
Paper # ICSS2019-89 
Date of Issue 2020-02-24 (ICSS) 
ISSN Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee ICSS IPSJ-SPT  
Conference Date 2020-03-02 - 2020-03-03 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Okinawa-Ken-Seinen-Kaikan 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Security, Trust, etc. 
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Conference Code 2020-03-ICSS-SPT 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Adversarial Attack against Neural Machine Translation Systems 
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Keyword(2) Neural Machine Translation  
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1st Author's Name Takeshi Sakamoto  
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University (Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Tatsuya Mori  
2nd Author's Affiliation Waseda University (Waseda Univ.)
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Date Time 2020-03-03 11:20:00 
Presentation Time 20 minutes 
Registration for ICSS 
Paper # ICSS2019-89 
Volume (vol) vol.119 
Number (no) no.437 
Page pp.125-130 
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Date of Issue 2020-02-24 (ICSS) 


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