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Recently, $k$NN-MT has shown the promising capability of directly incorporating the pre-trained neural machine translation (NMT) model with domain-specific token-level $k$-nearest-neighbor ($k$NN) retrieval to achieve domain adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Xin Zheng , Zhirui Zhang , Shujian Huang , Boxing Chen , Jun Xie , Weihua Luo , Jiajun Chen

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

We present META-MT, a meta-learning approach to adapt Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems in a few-shot setting. META-MT provides a new approach to make NMT models easily adaptable to many target domains with the minimal amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Amr Sharaf , Hany Hassan , Hal Daumé

$k$NN-MT is a straightforward yet powerful approach for fast domain adaptation, which directly plugs pre-trained neural machine translation (NMT) models with domain-specific token-level $k$-nearest-neighbor ($k$NN) retrieval to achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yuhan Dai , Zhirui Zhang , Qiuzhi Liu , Qu Cui , Weihua Li , Yichao Du , Tong Xu

Neural network methods exhibit strong performance only in a few resource-rich domains. Practitioners, therefore, employ domain adaptation from resource-rich domains that are, in most cases, distant from the target domain. Domain adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shoetsu Sato , Jin Sakuma , Naoki Yoshinaga , Masashi Toyoda , Masaru Kitsuregawa

We propose a method to transfer knowledge across neural machine translation (NMT) models by means of a shared dynamic vocabulary. Our approach allows to extend an initial model for a given language pair to cover new languages by adapting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Surafel M. Lakew , Aliia Erofeeva , Matteo Negri , Marcello Federico , Marco Turchi

Multilingual neural machine translation models (MNMT) yield state-of-the-art performance when evaluated on data from a domain and language pair seen at training time. However, when a MNMT model is used to translate under domain shift or to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Wen Lai , Alexandra Chronopoulou , Alexander Fraser

Many works proposed methods to improve the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models in a domain/multi-domain adaptation scenario. However, an understanding of how NMT baselines represent text domain information internally is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Maksym Del , Elizaveta Korotkova , Mark Fishel

Machine translation models struggle when translating out-of-domain text, which makes domain adaptation a topic of critical importance. However, most domain adaptation methods focus on fine-tuning or training the entire or part of the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Pedro Henrique Martins , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins

Neural machine translation (NMT) has shown impressive performance when trained on large-scale corpora. However, generic NMT systems have demonstrated poor performance on out-of-domain translation. To mitigate this issue, several domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Emad A. Alghamdi , Jezia Zakraoui , Fares A. Abanmy

We consider two problems of NMT domain adaptation using meta-learning. First, we want to reach domain robustness, i.e., we want to reach high quality on both domains seen in the training data and unseen domains. Second, we want our systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Wen Lai , Jindřich Libovický , Alexander Fraser

Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation ($k$NN-MT) has achieved great success in domain adaptation tasks by integrating pre-trained Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models with domain-specific token-level retrieval. However, the reasons…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Ruize Gao , Zhirui Zhang , Yichao Du , Lemao Liu , Rui Wang

Translating text that diverges from the training domain is a key challenge for machine translation. Domain robustness---the generalization of models to unseen test domains---is low for both statistical (SMT) and neural machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Mathias Müller , Annette Rios , Rico Sennrich

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

Multi-domain machine translation (MDMT) aims to build a unified model capable of translating content across diverse domains. Despite the impressive machine translation capabilities demonstrated by large language models (LLMs), domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Shuting Jiang , Ran Song , Yuxin Huang , Yan Xiang , Yantuan Xian , Shengxiang Gao , Zhengtao Yu

Machine Translation models are trained to translate a variety of documents from one language into another. However, models specifically trained for a particular characteristics of the documents tend to perform better. Fine-tuning is a…

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

Machine translation (MT) is an important sub-field of natural language processing that aims to translate natural languages using computers. In recent years, end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved great success and has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhixing Tan , Shuo Wang , Zonghan Yang , Gang Chen , Xuancheng Huang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

Machine translation (MT) is a technique that leverages computers to translate human languages automatically. Nowadays, neural machine translation (NMT) which models direct mapping between source and target languages with deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Consistency is a key requirement of high-quality translation. It is especially important to adhere to pre-approved terminology and adapt to corrected translations in domain-specific projects. Machine translation (MT) has achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yasmin Moslem , Rejwanul Haque , John D. Kelleher , Andy Way

Previous works mostly focus on either multilingual or multi-domain aspects of neural machine translation (NMT). This paper investigates whether the domain information can be transferred across languages on the composition of multi-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Thuy-Trang Vu , Shahram Khadivi , Xuanli He , Dinh Phung , Gholamreza Haffari