Additional Japanese processor for NMT that uses MeCab segmentation. F…

…ix for BLEU in one-many NMT (#3889)

* Ja Mecab tokenizer

Signed-off-by: MaximumEntropy <sandeep.subramanian.1@umontreal.ca>

* Set correct lang for ja sacrebleu

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* EnJa tok fixes

Signed-off-by: MaximumEntropy <sandeep.subramanian.1@umontreal.ca>

* BLEU score for one-many fix

Signed-off-by: MaximumEntropy <sandeep.subramanian.1@umontreal.ca>

* Revert megatron nmt changes

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* Fix extra space

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* Style

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* Empty commit to restart CI

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nemo/collections/common/tokenizers/en_ja_tokenizers.py

@@ -11,8 +11,12 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
+import re
 from typing import List
 
+import ipadic
+import MeCab
+from pangu import spacing
 from sacremoses import MosesDetokenizer, MosesPunctNormalizer, MosesTokenizer
 
 
@@ -55,3 +59,29 @@ def normalize(self, text) -> str:
             return self.normalizer.normalize(text)
         else:
             return text
+
+
+class JaMecabProcessor:
+    """
+    Tokenizer, Detokenizer and Normalizer utilities for Japanese MeCab & English
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.mecab_tokenizer = MeCab.Tagger(ipadic.MECAB_ARGS + " -Owakati")
+
+    def detokenize(self, text: List[str]) -> str:
+        RE_WS_IN_FW = re.compile(
+            r'([\u2018\u2019\u201c\u201d\u2e80-\u312f\u3200-\u32ff\u3400-\u4dbf\u4e00-\u9fff\uf900-\ufaff\uff00-\uffef])\s+(?=[\u2018\u2019\u201c\u201d\u2e80-\u312f\u3200-\u32ff\u3400-\u4dbf\u4e00-\u9fff\uf900-\ufaff\uff00-\uffef])'
+        )
+
+        detokenize = lambda s: spacing(RE_WS_IN_FW.sub(r'\1', s)).strip()
+        return detokenize(' '.join(text))
+
+    def tokenize(self, text) -> str:
+        """
+        Tokenizes text using Moses. Returns a string of tokens.
+        """
+        return self.mecab_tokenizer.parse(text).strip()
+
+    def normalize(self, text) -> str:
+        return text

nemo/collections/nlp/models/machine_translation/mt_enc_dec_model.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 from nemo.collections.common.parts import transformer_weights_init
 from nemo.collections.common.tokenizers.bytelevel_tokenizers import ByteLevelProcessor
 from nemo.collections.common.tokenizers.chinese_tokenizers import ChineseProcessor
-from nemo.collections.common.tokenizers.en_ja_tokenizers import EnJaProcessor
+from nemo.collections.common.tokenizers.en_ja_tokenizers import EnJaProcessor, JaMecabProcessor
 from nemo.collections.common.tokenizers.indic_tokenizers import IndicProcessor
 from nemo.collections.common.tokenizers.moses_tokenizers import MosesProcessor
 from nemo.collections.nlp.data import TarredTranslationDataset, TranslationDataset
@@ -427,9 +427,13 @@ def eval_epoch_end(self, outputs, mode, global_rank):
                     _translations += [t for (t, g) in tr_and_gt[rank]]
                     _ground_truths += [g for (t, g) in tr_and_gt[rank]]
 
-                if self.tgt_language in ['ja']:
+                if self.multilingual and isinstance(self.tgt_language, ListConfig):
+                    tgt_language = self.tgt_language[dataloader_idx]
+                else:
+                    tgt_language = self.tgt_language
+                if tgt_language in ['ja', 'ja-mecab']:
                     sacre_bleu = corpus_bleu(_translations, [_ground_truths], tokenize="ja-mecab")
-                elif self.tgt_language in ['zh']:
+                elif tgt_language in ['zh']:
                     sacre_bleu = corpus_bleu(_translations, [_ground_truths], tokenize="zh")
                 else:
                     sacre_bleu = corpus_bleu(_translations, [_ground_truths], tokenize="13a")
@@ -862,7 +866,9 @@ def setup_pre_and_post_processing_utils(
         if encoder_tokenizer_library == 'byte-level':
             source_processor = ByteLevelProcessor()
         elif (source_lang == 'en' and target_lang == 'ja') or (source_lang == 'ja' and target_lang == 'en'):
-            source_processor = EnJaProcessor(source_lang)
+            self.source_processor = EnJaProcessor(source_lang)
+        elif source_lang == 'ja-mecab':
+            self.source_processor = JaMecabProcessor()
         elif source_lang == 'zh':
             source_processor = ChineseProcessor()
         elif source_lang == 'hi':
@@ -875,7 +881,9 @@ def setup_pre_and_post_processing_utils(
         if decoder_tokenizer_library == 'byte-level':
             target_processor = ByteLevelProcessor()
         elif (source_lang == 'en' and target_lang == 'ja') or (source_lang == 'ja' and target_lang == 'en'):
-            target_processor = EnJaProcessor(target_lang)
+            self.target_processor = EnJaProcessor(target_lang)
+        elif target_lang == 'ja-mecab':
+            self.target_processor = JaMecabProcessor()
         elif target_lang == 'zh':
             target_processor = ChineseProcessor()
         elif target_lang == 'hi':