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In Transformer-based neural machine translation (NMT), the positional encoding mechanism helps the self-attention networks to learn the source representation with order dependency, which makes the Transformer-based NMT achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kehai Chen , Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita

We introduce a neural machine translation model that views the input and output sentences as sequences of characters rather than words. Since word-level information provides a crucial source of bias, our input model composes representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Wang Ling , Isabel Trancoso , Chris Dyer , Alan W Black

Auto-regressive sequence-to-sequence models with attention mechanisms have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various tasks including Text-To-Speech (TTS) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT). The standard training approach, teacher…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Qingyun Dou , Yiting Lu , Potsawee Manakul , Xixin Wu , Mark J. F. Gales

Neural Machine translation is a challenging task due to the inherent complex nature and the fluidity that natural languages bring. Nonetheless, in recent years, it has achieved state-of-the-art performance in several language pairs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Vakul Goyle , Parvathy Krishnaswamy , Kannan Girija Ravikumar , Utsa Chattopadhyay , Kartikay Goyle

While it has been shown that Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is highly sensitive to noisy parallel training samples, prior work treats all types of mismatches between source and target as noise. As a result, it remains unclear how samples…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Eleftheria Briakou , Marine Carpuat

In this paper, we explore a simple solution to "Multi-Source Neural Machine Translation" (MSNMT) which only relies on preprocessing a N-way multilingual corpus without modifying the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) architecture or training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Raj Dabre , Fabien Cromieres , Sadao Kurohashi

Recent advancements in attention mechanisms have replaced recurrent neural networks and its variants for machine translation tasks. Transformer using attention mechanism solely achieved state-of-the-art results in sequence modeling. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Prakhar Thapak , Prodip Hore

Monolingual data has been demonstrated to be helpful in improving the translation quality of neural machine translation (NMT). The current methods stay at the usage of word-level knowledge, such as generating synthetic parallel data or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Rongxiang Weng , Heng Yu , Shujian Huang , Weihua Luo , Jiajun Chen

In this work, we present novel approaches to exploit sentential context for neural machine translation (NMT). Specifically, we first show that a shallow sentential context extracted from the top encoder layer only, can improve translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Xing Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Longyue Wang , Shuming Shi

Though remarkable successes have been achieved by Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in recent years, it still suffers from the inadequate-translation problem. Previous studies show that explicitly modeling the Past and Future contents of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jianhao Yan , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Neural chat translation (NCT) aims to translate a cross-lingual chat between speakers of different languages. Existing context-aware NMT models cannot achieve satisfactory performances due to the following inherent problems: 1) limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Chulun Zhou , Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Jinan Xu , Hongji Wang , Min Zhang , Jinsong Su

Continuous-output neural machine translation (CoNMT) replaces the discrete next-word prediction problem with an embedding prediction. The semantic structure of the target embedding space (i.e., closeness of related words) is intuitively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Evgeniia Tokarchuk , Vlad Niculae

The performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems often suffers in low-resource scenarios where sufficiently large-scale parallel corpora cannot be obtained. Pre-trained word embeddings have proven to be invaluable for improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Ye Qi , Devendra Singh Sachan , Matthieu Felix , Sarguna Janani Padmanabhan , Graham Neubig

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has shown drastic improvement in its quality when translating clean input, such as text from the news domain. However, existing studies suggest that NMT still struggles with certain kinds of input with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ryo Fujii , Masato Mita , Kaori Abe , Kazuaki Hanawa , Makoto Morishita , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

Transfer learning approaches for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) train a NMT model on the assisting-target language pair (parent model) which is later fine-tuned for the source-target language pair of interest (child model), with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Rudra Murthy , Anoop Kunchukuttan , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Existing approaches to mapping-based cross-lingual word embeddings are based on the assumption that the source and target embedding spaces are structurally similar. The structures of embedding spaces largely depend on the co-occurrence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Ryokan Ri , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Despite the impressive quality improvements yielded by neural machine translation (NMT) systems, controlling their translation output to adhere to user-provided terminology constraints remains an open problem. We describe our approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Eva Hasler , Adrià De Gispert , Gonzalo Iglesias , Bill Byrne

In encoder-decoder neural models, multiple encoders are in general used to represent the contextual information in addition to the individual sentence. In this paper, we investigate multi-encoder approaches in documentlevel neural machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Bei Li , Hui Liu , Ziyang Wang , Yufan Jiang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu , Tongran Liu , Changliang Li

Out-of-vocabulary word translation is a major problem for the translation of low-resource languages that suffer from a lack of parallel training data. This paper evaluates the contributions of target-language context models towards the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Angli Liu , Katrin Kirchhoff

Machine translation (MT) plays an important role in benefiting linguists, sociologists, computer scientists, etc. by processing natural language to translate it into some other natural language. And this demand has grown exponentially over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Ankush Garg , Mayank Agarwal