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Multimodal machine translation involves drawing information from more than one modality, based on the assumption that the additional modalities will contain useful alternative views of the input data. The most prominent tasks in this area…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Umut Sulubacak , Ozan Caglayan , Stig-Arne Grönroos , Aku Rouhe , Desmond Elliott , Lucia Specia , Jörg Tiedemann

As neural machine translation (NMT) is not easily amenable to explicit correction of errors, incorporating pre-specified translations into NMT is widely regarded as a non-trivial challenge. In this paper, we propose and explore three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Tao Wang , Shaohui Kuang , Deyi Xiong , António Branco

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach to machine translation that has made great progress in recent years. However, recent studies show that NMT generally produces fluent but inadequate translations (Tu et al. 2016b; Tu et al.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Xing Wang , Zhengdong Lu , Zhaopeng Tu , Hang Li , Deyi Xiong , Min Zhang

The ability to generate natural language explanations conditioned on the visual perception is a crucial step towards autonomous agents which can explain themselves and communicate with humans. While the research efforts in image and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Attention is a powerful and ubiquitous mechanism for allowing neural models to focus on particular salient pieces of information by taking their weighted average when making predictions. In particular, multi-headed attention is a driving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Paul Michel , Omer Levy , Graham Neubig

In this paper, we address referring expression comprehension: localizing an image region described by a natural language expression. While most recent work treats expressions as a single unit, we propose to decompose them into three modular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Licheng Yu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Jimei Yang , Xin Lu , Mohit Bansal , Tamara L. Berg

Recent work has shown that deeper character-based neural machine translation (NMT) models can outperform subword-based models. However, it is still unclear what makes deeper character-based models successful. In this paper, we conduct an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Gongbo Tang , Rico Sennrich , Joakim Nivre

Document-level Neural Machine Translation (DocNMT) has been proven crucial for handling discourse phenomena by introducing document-level context information. One of the most important directions is to input the whole document directly to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zihan Liu , Zewei Sun , Shanbo Cheng , Shujian Huang , Mingxuan Wang

Multimodal learning has gained much success in recent years. However, current multimodal fusion methods adopt the attention mechanism of Transformers to implicitly learn the underlying correlation of multimodal features. As a result, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Thanh-Dat Truong , Christophe Bobda , Nitin Agarwal , Khoa Luu

Diverse and extensive work has recently been conducted on text-conditioned human motion generation. However, progress in the reverse direction, motion captioning, has seen less comparable advancement. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Karim Radouane , Julien Lagarde , Sylvie Ranwez , Andon Tchechmedjiev

Automatically generating a human-like description for a given image is a potential research in artificial intelligence, which has attracted a great of attention recently. Most of the existing attention methods explore the mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Feicheng Huang , Zhixin Li , Haiyang Wei , Canlong Zhang , Huifang Ma

While most current work in multimodal machine translation (MMT) uses the Multi30k dataset for training and evaluation, we find that the resulting models overfit to the Multi30k dataset to an extreme degree. Consequently, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Vipin Vijayan , Braeden Bowen , Scott Grigsby , Timothy Anderson , Jeremy Gwinnup

Attention mechanisms are widely used in current encoder/decoder frameworks of image captioning, where a weighted average on encoded vectors is generated at each time step to guide the caption decoding process. However, the decoder has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Lun Huang , Wenmin Wang , Jie Chen , Xiao-Yong Wei

Current state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) uses a deep multi-head self-attention network with no explicit phrase information. However, prior work on statistical machine translation has shown that extending the basic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Jie Hao , Xing Wang , Shuming Shi , Jinfeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Tu

We propose a multi-head attention mechanism as a blending layer in a neural network model that translates natural language to a high level behavioral language for indoor robot navigation. We follow the framework established by (Zang et al.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Patricio Cerda-Mardini , Vladimir Araujo , Alvaro Soto

The attentional mechanism has proven to be effective in improving end-to-end neural machine translation. However, due to the intricate structural divergence between natural languages, unidirectional attention-based models might only capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Yong Cheng , Shiqi Shen , Zhongjun He , Wei He , Hua Wu , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

We present our submission to the WMT18 Multimodal Translation Task. The main feature of our submission is applying a self-attentive network instead of a recurrent neural network. We evaluate two methods of incorporating the visual features…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Jindřich Helcl , Jindřich Libovický , Dušan Variš

One of the major challenges of machine translation (MT) is ambiguity, which can in some cases be resolved by accompanying context such as images. However, recent work in multimodal MT (MMT) has shown that obtaining improvements from images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Matthieu Futeral , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

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

Despite the growing variety of languages supported by existing multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) models, most of the world's languages are still being left behind. We aim to extend large-scale MNMT models to incorporate a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wen Lai , Viktor Hangya , Yingli Shen , Alexander Fraser