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Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems are known to degrade when confronted with noisy data, especially when the system is trained only on clean data. In this paper, we show that augmenting training data with sentences containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Antonios Anastasopoulos , Alison Lui , Toan Nguyen , David Chiang

For most language combinations, parallel data is either scarce or simply unavailable. To address this, unsupervised machine translation (UMT) exploits large amounts of monolingual data by using synthetic data generation techniques such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Dana Ruiter , Dietrich Klakow , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

Existing data augmentation approaches for neural machine translation (NMT) have predominantly relied on back-translating in-domain (IND) monolingual corpora. These methods suffer from issues associated with a domain information gap, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wei Peng , Chongxuan Huang , Tianhao Li , Yun Chen , Qun Liu

The Transformer model is the state-of-the-art in Machine Translation. However, in general, neural translation models often under perform on language pairs with insufficient training data. As a consequence, relatively few experiments have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Séamus Lankford , Haithem Afli , Andy Way

Monolingual data, being readily available in large quantities, has been used to upscale the scarcely available parallel data to train better models for automatic translation. Self-learning, where a model is made to learn from its output, is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Idris Abdulmumin , Bashir Shehu Galadanci , Garba Aliyu , Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

LLMs have been shown to perform well in machine translation (MT) with the use of in-context learning (ICL), rivaling supervised models when translating into high-resource languages (HRLs). However, they lag behind when translating into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Armel Zebaze , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

Data curation is a critical yet under-researched step in the machine translation training paradigm. To train translation systems, data acquisition relies primarily on human translations and digital parallel sources or, to a limited degree,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Saumitra Yadav , Manish Shrivastava

Data scarcity is a problem that occurs in languages and tasks where we do not have large amounts of labeled data but want to use state-of-the-art models. Such models are often deep learning models that require a significant amount of data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Domagoj Pluščec , Jan Šnajder

Neural machine translation models are often biased toward the limited translation references seen during training. To amend this form of overfitting, in this paper we propose fine-tuning the models with a novel training objective based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Inigo Jauregi Unanue , Jacob Parnell , Massimo Piccardi

This study investigates the challenges of translating low-resource languages by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Various model configurations were tested on Hakka translations, with BLEU…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chen-Chi Chang , Chong-Fu Li , Chu-Hsuan Lee , Hung-Shin Lee

While neural networks have been used extensively to make substantial progress in the machine translation task, they are known for being heavily dependent on the availability of large amounts of training data. Recent efforts have tried to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Diego Moussallem , Mihael Arčan , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo , Paul Buitelaar

Previous work suggests that performance of cross-lingual information retrieval correlates highly with the quality of Machine Translation. However, there may be a threshold beyond which improving query translation quality yields little or no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Bryan Zhang , Amita Misra

We propose multi-way, multilingual neural machine translation. The proposed approach enables a single neural translation model to translate between multiple languages, with a number of parameters that grows only linearly with the number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Orhan Firat , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Statistical machine translation models have made great progress in improving the translation quality. However, the existing models predict the target translation with only the source- and target-side local context information. In practice,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Jiajun Zhang

Unsupervised translation has reached impressive performance on resource-rich language pairs such as English-French and English-German. However, early studies have shown that in more realistic settings involving low-resource, rare languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Xavier Garcia , Aditya Siddhant , Orhan Firat , Ankur P. Parikh

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

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

We investigate automatic interlinear glossing in low-resource settings. We augment a hard-attentional neural model with embedded translation information extracted from interlinear glossed text. After encoding these translations using large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Changbing Yang , Garrett Nicolai , Miikka Silfverberg

In this paper, we focus on improving the performance of the text-dependent speaker verification system in the scenario of limited training data. The speaker verification system deep learning based text-dependent generally needs a large…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xiaoyi Qin , Yaogen Yang , Lin Yang , Xuyang Wang , Junjie Wang , Ming Li

Data augmentation techniques have been widely used to improve machine learning performance as they enhance the generalization capability of models. In this work, to generate high quality synthetic data for low-resource tagging tasks, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Bosheng Ding , Linlin Liu , Lidong Bing , Canasai Kruengkrai , Thien Hai Nguyen , Shafiq Joty , Luo Si , Chunyan Miao