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In this paper, we explore alternative ways to train a neural machine translation system in a multi-domain scenario. We investigate data concatenation (with fine tuning), model stacking (multi-level fine tuning), data selection and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Yonatan Belinkov , Stephan Vogel

While neural machine translation (NMT) has become the new paradigm, the parameter optimization requires large-scale parallel data which is scarce in many domains and language pairs. In this paper, we address a new translation scenario in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Yining Wang , Yang Zhao , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong , Zhengshan Xue

Transformer networks, particularly those achieving performance comparable to GPT models, are well known for their robust feature extraction abilities. However, the nature of these extracted features and their alignment with human-engineered…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Tanya Chowdhury , Atharva Nijasure , James Allan

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated strong potential in training large language models (LLMs) capable of complex reasoning for real-world problem solving. More recently, RL has been leveraged to create sophisticated LLM-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Bowen Jin , Jinsung Yoon , Priyanka Kargupta , Sercan O. Arik , Jiawei Han

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

Conventional retrieval-augmented neural machine translation (RANMT) systems leverage bilingual corpora, e.g., translation memories (TMs). Yet, in many settings, monolingual corpora in the target language are often available. This work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Maxime Bouthors , Josep Crego , François Yvon

In Machine Translation, assessing the quality of a large amount of automatic translations can be challenging. Automatic metrics are not reliable when it comes to high performing systems. In addition, resorting to human evaluators can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Vânia Mendonça , Ricardo Rei , Luisa Coheur , Alberto Sardinha , Ana Lúcia Santos

Neural machine translation (NMT) suffers a performance deficiency when a limited vocabulary fails to cover the source or target side adequately, which happens frequently when dealing with morphologically rich languages. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Kai Song , Yue Zhang , Min Zhang , Weihua Luo

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in general-purpose machine translation, but their effectiveness in complex, domain-sensitive translation tasks remains underexplored. Recent advancements in Large Reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yongshi Ye , Biao Fu , Chongxuan Huang , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation (kNN-MT) becomes an important research direction of NMT in recent years. Its main idea is to retrieve useful key-value pairs from an additional datastore to modify translations without updating the NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hui Jiang , Ziyao Lu , Fandong Meng , Chulun Zhou , Jie Zhou , Degen Huang , Jinsong Su

We describe our recently developed neural machine translation (NMT) system and benchmark it against our own statistical machine translation (SMT) system as well as two other general purpose online engines (statistical and neural). We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Pavel Levin , Nishikant Dhanuka , Maxim Khalilov

The recent years have seen remarkable success in the use of deep neural networks on text summarization. However, there is no clear understanding of \textit{why} they perform so well, or \textit{how} they might be improved. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Ming Zhong , Pengfei Liu , Danqing Wang , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Neural machine translation (NMT) has been accelerated by deep learning neural networks over statistical-based approaches, due to the plethora and programmability of commodity heterogeneous computing architectures such as FPGAs and GPUs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Robert Lim , Kenneth Heafield , Hieu Hoang , Mark Briers , Allen Malony

Beam search optimization resolves many issues in neural machine translation. However, this method lacks principled stopping criteria and does not learn how to stop during training, and the model naturally prefers the longer hypotheses…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Mingbo Ma , Renjie Zheng , Liang Huang

Machine translation systems are conventionally trained on textual resources that do not model phenomena that occur in spoken language. While the evaluation of neural machine translation systems on textual inputs is actively researched in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Nicholas Ruiz , Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Nicola Bertoldi , Marcello Federico

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methodologies have burgeoned from using simple feed-forward architectures to the state of the art; viz. BERT model. The use cases of NMT models have been broadened from just language translations to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Rohan Jagtap , Sudhir N. Dhage

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 the present article, we identified the qualitative differences between Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) outputs. We have tried to answer two important questions: 1. Does NMT perform equivalently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Sainik Kumar Mahata , Soumil Mandal , Dipankar Das , Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

When training multilingual machine translation (MT) models that can translate to/from multiple languages, we are faced with imbalanced training sets: some languages have much more training data than others. Standard practice is to up-sample…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Xinyi Wang , Yulia Tsvetkov , Graham Neubig

Neural architecture search has recently attracted lots of research efforts as it promises to automate the manual design of neural networks. However, it requires a large amount of computing resources and in order to alleviate this, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Alina Dubatovka , Efi Kokiopoulou , Luciano Sbaiz , Andrea Gesmundo , Gabor Bartok , Jesse Berent