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Neural machine translation (NMT) has recently gained widespread attention because of its high translation accuracy. However, it shows poor performance in the translation of long sentences, which is a major issue in low-resource languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Seiichiro Kondo , Kengo Hotate , Masahiro Kaneko , Mamoru Komachi

Most state-of-the-art neural machine translation systems, despite being different in architectural skeletons (e.g. recurrence, convolutional), share an indispensable feature: the Attention. However, most existing attention methods are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Phi Xuan Nguyen , Shafiq Joty

Neural machine translation (NMT) becomes a new state-of-the-art and achieves promising translation results using a simple encoder-decoder neural network. This neural network is trained once on the parallel corpus and the fixed network is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Xiaoqing Li , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Modern statistical machine translation (SMT) systems usually use a linear combination of features to model the quality of each translation hypothesis. The linear combination assumes that all the features are in a linear relationship and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Shujian Huang , Huadong Chen , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

In this study, we present an analysis regarding the performance of the state-of-art Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) on multiple Indian languages. We report baseline systems on several language pairs. The motivation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Nadeem Jadoon Khan , Waqas Anwar , Nadir Durrani

Compared to traditional statistical machine translation (SMT), neural machine translation (NMT) often sacrifices adequacy for the sake of fluency. We propose a method to combine the advantages of traditional SMT and NMT by exploiting an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Jingyi Zhang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichro Sumita , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models achieve their best performance when large sets of parallel data are used for training. Consequently, techniques for augmenting the training set have become popular recently. One of these methods is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Alberto Poncelas , Maja Popovic , Dimitar Shterionov , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Andy Way

In this paper, we introduce a hybrid search for attention-based neural machine translation (NMT). A target phrase learned with statistical MT models extends a hypothesis in the NMT beam search when the attention of the NMT model focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Leonard Dahlmann , Evgeny Matusov , Pavel Petrushkov , Shahram Khadivi

In this paper, we propose two new features for estimating phrase-based machine translation parameters from mainly monolingual data. Our method is based on two recently introduced neural network vector representation models for words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Amir Pouya Aghasadeghi , Mohadeseh Bastan

While neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved state-of-the-art translation performance, it is unable to capture the alignment between the input and output during the translation process. The lack of alignment in NMT models leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Jiacheng Zhang , Huanbo Luan , Maosong Sun , FeiFei Zhai , Jingfang Xu , Yang Liu

The ability of generative large language models (LLMs) to perform in-context learning has given rise to a large body of research into how best to prompt models for various natural language processing tasks. Machine Translation (MT) has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Armel Zebaze , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

We present a three-pronged approach to improving Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), building on recent success in the application of neural networks to SMT. First, we propose new features based on neural networks to model various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Hendra Setiawan , Zhongqiang Huang , Jacob Devlin , Thomas Lamar , Rabih Zbib , Richard Schwartz , John Makhoul

We investigate pivot-based translation between related languages in a low resource, phrase-based SMT setting. We show that a subword-level pivot-based SMT model using a related pivot language is substantially better than word and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Anoop Kunchukuttan , Maulik Shah , Pradyot Prakash , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

We explore the idea of automatically crafting a tuning dataset for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) that makes the hyper-parameters of the SMT system more robust with respect to some specific deficiencies of the parameter tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Preslav Nakov , Stephan Vogel

One of the significant challenges of Machine Translation (MT) is the scarcity of large amounts of data, mainly parallel sentence aligned corpora. If the evaluation is as rigorous as resource-rich languages, both Neural Machine Translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Amit Kumar , Rupjyoti Baruah , Ajay Pratap , Mayank Swarnkar , Anil Kumar Singh

Neural machine translation (NMT), a new approach to machine translation, has achieved promising results comparable to those of traditional approaches such as statistical machine translation (SMT). Despite its recent success, NMT cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Zi Long , Ryuichiro Kimura , Takehito Utsuro , Tomoharu Mitsuhashi , Mikio Yamamoto

Recently, the development of neural machine translation (NMT) has significantly improved the translation quality of automatic machine translation. While most sentences are more accurate and fluent than translations by statistical machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Jan Niehues , Eunah Cho , Thanh-Le Ha , Alex Waibel

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models tend to achieve best performance when larger sets of parallel sentences are provided for training. For this reason, augmenting the training set with artificially-generated sentence pairs can boost…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Alberto Poncelas , Andy Way

Accurate terminology translation is crucial for ensuring the practicality and reliability of neural machine translation (NMT) systems. To address this, lexically constrained NMT explores various methods to ensure pre-specified words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Gyubok Lee , Seongjun Yang , Edward Choi

We propose a novel method for translation selection in statistical machine translation, in which a convolutional neural network is employed to judge the similarity between a phrase pair in two languages. The specifically designed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Zhaopeng Tu , Baotian Hu , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li