  Achieving satisfying performance in machine translation on domains for which
there is no training data is challenging. Traditional supervised domain
adaptation is not suitable for addressing such zero-resource domains because it
relies on in-domain parallel data. We show that when in-domain parallel data is
not available, access to document-level context enables better capturing of
domain generalities compared to only having access to a single sentence. Having
access to more information provides a more reliable domain estimation. We
present two document-level Transformer models which are capable of using large
context sizes and we compare these models against strong Transformer baselines.
We obtain improvements for the two zero resource domains we study. We
additionally provide an analysis where we vary the amount of context and look
at the case where in-domain data is available.

Computation and Language