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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

Translation Quality Estimation (QE) is the task of predicting the quality of machine translation (MT) output without any reference. This task has gained increasing attention as an important component in the practical applications of MT. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Fatemeh Azadi , Heshaam Faili , Mohammad Javad Dousti

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

Unsupervised neural machine translation (NMT) is a recently proposed approach for machine translation which aims to train the model without using any labeled data. The models proposed for unsupervised NMT often use only one shared encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Zhen Yang , Wei Chen , Feng Wang , Bo Xu

In this study, a human evaluation is carried out on how hyperparameter settings impact the quality of Transformer-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) for the low-resourced English--Irish pair. SentencePiece models using both Byte Pair…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Séamus Lankford , Haithem Afli , Andy Way

Non-autoregressive machine translation models significantly speed up decoding by allowing for parallel prediction of the entire target sequence. However, modeling word order is more challenging due to the lack of autoregressive factors in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Marjan Ghazvininejad , Vladimir Karpukhin , Luke Zettlemoyer , Omer Levy

Despite the progress in machine translation quality estimation and evaluation in the last years, decoding in neural machine translation (NMT) is mostly oblivious to this and centers around finding the most probable translation according to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Patrick Fernandes , António Farinhas , Ricardo Rei , José G. C. de Souza , Perez Ogayo , Graham Neubig , André F. T. Martins

Natural Language Generation (NLG) refers to the operation of expressing the calculation results of a system in human language. Since the quality of generated sentences from an NLG model cannot be fully represented using only quantitative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Dojun Park , Youngjin Jang , Harksoo Kim

This work explores sequential model editing in large language models (LLMs), a critical task that involves modifying internal knowledge within LLMs continuously through multi-round editing, each incorporating updates or corrections to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Houcheng Jiang , Junfeng Fang , Tianyu Zhang , An Zhang , Ruipeng Wang , Tao Liang , Xiang Wang

Translation quality evaluation plays a crucial role in machine translation. According to the input format, it is mainly separated into three tasks, i.e., reference-only, source-only and source-reference-combined. Recent methods, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yu Wan , Dayiheng Liu , Baosong Yang , Haibo Zhang , Boxing Chen , Derek F. Wong , Lidia S. Chao

The advantages of neural machine translation (NMT) have been extensively validated for offline translation of several language pairs for different domains of spoken and written language. However, research on interactive learning of NMT by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Sariya Karimova , Patrick Simianer , Stefan Riezler

Human evaluation of modern high-quality machine translation systems is a difficult problem, and there is increasing evidence that inadequate evaluation procedures can lead to erroneous conclusions. While there has been considerable research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Markus Freitag , George Foster , David Grangier , Viresh Ratnakar , Qijun Tan , Wolfgang Macherey

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

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

In this paper, we show that the combination of Phrase Pair Injection and Corpus Filtering boosts the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems. We extract parallel phrases and sentences from the pseudo-parallel corpus and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Akshay Batheja , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

We compare three approaches to statistical machine translation (pure phrase-based, factored phrase-based and neural) by performing a fine-grained manual evaluation via error annotation of the systems' outputs. The error types in our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Filip Klubička , Antonio Toral , Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena

In order to control computational complexity, neural machine translation (NMT) systems convert all rare words outside the vocabulary into a single unk symbol. Previous solution (Luong et al., 2015) resorts to use multiple numbered unks to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Xiaoqing Li , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

We propose SumQE, a novel Quality Estimation model for summarization based on BERT. The model addresses linguistic quality aspects that are only indirectly captured by content-based approaches to summary evaluation, without involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Stratos Xenouleas , Prodromos Malakasiotis , Marianna Apidianaki , Ion Androutsopoulos

In this paper, we proposed a deep learning-based end-to-end method on the domain specified automatic term extraction (ATE), it considers possible term spans within a fixed length in the sentence and predicts them whether they can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Yuze Gao , Yu Yuan

Adding linguistic information (syntax or semantics) to neural machine translation (NMT) has mostly focused on using point estimates from pre-trained models. Directly using the capacity of massive pre-trained contextual word embedding models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar