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End-to-end neural machine translation has overtaken statistical machine translation in terms of translation quality for some language pairs, specially those with large amounts of parallel data. Besides this palpable improvement, neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Cristina España-Bonet , Ádám Csaba Varga , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Josef van Genabith

We introduce an open-source toolkit for neural machine translation (NMT) to support research into model architectures, feature representations, and source modalities, while maintaining competitive performance, modularity and reasonable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Guillaume Klein , Yoon Kim , Yuntian Deng , Josep Crego , Jean Senellart , Alexander M. Rush

Machine Translation (MT) is one of the most prominent tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) which involves the automatic conversion of texts from one natural language to another while preserving its meaning and fluency. Although the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kavit Gangar , Hardik Ruparel , Shreyas Lele

Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent years. Millions of people are using it today in online translation systems and mobile applications in order to communicate across language barriers. The question naturally arises whether…

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach for Machine Translation (MT), and due to its success, it has absorbed the attention of many researchers in the field. In this paper, we study NMT model on Persian-English language pairs, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Mohaddeseh Bastan , Shahram Khadivi , Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour

We propose to achieve explainable neural machine translation (NMT) by changing the output representation to explain itself. We present a novel approach to NMT which generates the target sentence by monotonically walking through the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Felix Stahlberg , Danielle Saunders , Bill Byrne

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems are typically evaluated using automated metrics that assess the agreement between generated translations and ground truth candidates. To improve systems with respect to these metrics, NLP researchers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Nicholas Roberts , Davis Liang , Graham Neubig , Zachary C. Lipton

Recent work achieved remarkable results in training neural machine translation (NMT) systems in a fully unsupervised way, with new and dedicated architectures that rely on monolingual corpora only. In this work, we propose to define…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Benjamin Marie , Atsushi Fujita

Multimodal machine translation is an attractive application of neural machine translation (NMT). It helps computers to deeply understand visual objects and their relations with natural languages. However, multimodal NMT systems suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Tosho Hirasawa , Hayahide Yamagishi , Yukio Matsumura , Mamoru Komachi

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

This thesis argues that the currently widely used Natural Language Processing algorithms possibly have various limitations related to the properties of the texts they handle and produce. With the wide adoption of these tools in rapid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Josef Jon

In this paper, we discuss different methods which use meta information and richer context that may accompany source language input to improve machine translation quality. We focus on category information of input text as meta information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Shahram Khadivi , Patrick Wilken , Leonard Dahlmann , Evgeny Matusov

Although end-to-end Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has achieved remarkable progress in the past two years, it suffers from a major drawback: translations generated by NMT systems often lack of adequacy. It has been widely observed that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Zhaopeng Tu , Yang Liu , Lifeng Shang , Xiaohua Liu , Hang Li

We describe an open-source toolkit for neural machine translation (NMT). The toolkit prioritizes efficiency, modularity, and extensibility with the goal of supporting NMT research into model architectures, feature representations, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Guillaume Klein , Yoon Kim , Yuntian Deng , Jean Senellart , Alexander M. Rush

The basic concept in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is to train a large Neural Network that maximizes the translation performance on a given parallel corpus. NMT is then using a simple left-to-right beam-search decoder to generate new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Markus Freitag , Yaser Al-Onaizan

For the past 60 years, Research in machine translation is going on. For the development in this field, a lot of new techniques are being developed each day. As a result, we have witnessed development of many automatic machine translators. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Nisheeth Joshi , Hemant Darbari , Iti Mathur

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

Neural machine translation (NMT) models learn representations containing substantial linguistic information. However, it is not clear if such information is fully distributed or if some of it can be attributed to individual neurons. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Anthony Bau , Yonatan Belinkov , Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , James Glass

We present Nematus, a toolkit for Neural Machine Translation. The toolkit prioritizes high translation accuracy, usability, and extensibility. Nematus has been used to build top-performing submissions to shared translation tasks at WMT and…

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