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For machine translation to tackle discourse phenomena, models must have access to extra-sentential linguistic context. There has been recent interest in modelling context in neural machine translation (NMT), but models have been principally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Rachel Bawden , Rico Sennrich , Alexandra Birch , Barry Haddow

Idioms pose problems to almost all Machine Translation systems. This type of language is very frequent in day-to-day language use and cannot be simply ignored. The recent interest in memory augmented models in the field of Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Giancarlo D. Salton , Robert J. Ross , John D. Kelleher

This paper explores the use of Deep Learning methods for automatic estimation of quality of human translations. Automatic estimation can provide useful feedback for translation teaching, examination and quality control. Conventional methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yu Yuan , Serge Sharoff

This paper addresses the task of contextual translation using multi-segment models. Specifically we show that increasing model capacity further pushes the limits of this approach and that deeper models are more suited to capture context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Suvodeep Majumder , Stanislas Lauly , Maria Nadejde , Marcello Federico , Georgiana Dinu

While recent advances in deep learning led to significant improvements in machine translation, neural machine translation is often still not able to continuously adapt to the environment. For humans, as well as for machine translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Jan Niehues

Broad textual understanding and in-context learning require language models that utilize full document contexts. Due to the implementation challenges associated with directly training long-context models, many methods have been proposed for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yi Lu , Jing Nathan Yan , Songlin Yang , Justin T. Chiu , Siyu Ren , Fei Yuan , Wenting Zhao , Zhiyong Wu , Alexander M. Rush

We present a document-level neural machine translation model which takes both source and target document context into account using memory networks. We model the problem as a structured prediction problem with interdependencies among the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Sameen Maruf , Gholamreza Haffari

Context modeling is essential to generate coherent and consistent translation for Document-level Neural Machine Translations. The widely used method for document-level translation usually compresses the context information into a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zhengxin Yang , Jinchao Zhang , Fandong Meng , Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng , Jie Zhou

Recent work has shown that the encoder-decoder attention mechanisms in neural machine translation (NMT) are different from the word alignment in statistical machine translation. In this paper, we focus on analyzing encoder-decoder attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Gongbo Tang , Rico Sennrich , Joakim Nivre

Standard neural machine translation (NMT) is on the assumption that the document-level context is independent. Most existing document-level NMT approaches are satisfied with a smattering sense of global document-level information, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shu Jiang , Rui Wang , Zuchao Li , Masao Utiyama , Kehai Chen , Eiichiro Sumita , Hai Zhao , Bao-liang Lu

Past work has long recognized the important role of context in guiding how humans search their memory. While context-based memory models can explain many memory phenomena, it remains unclear why humans develop such architectures over…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-24 Nikolaus Salvatore , Qiong Zhang

Most neural machine translation models only rely on pairs of parallel sentences, assuming syntactic information is automatically learned by an attention mechanism. In this work, we investigate different approaches to incorporate syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Emanuele Bugliarello , Naoaki Okazaki

Machine Translation (MT) is a zone of concentrate in Natural Language processing which manages the programmed interpretation of human language, starting with one language then onto the next by the PC. Having a rich research history…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Siddhant Srivastava , Ritu Tiwari

Most neural machine translation (NMT) models are based on the sequential encoder-decoder framework, which makes no use of syntactic information. In this paper, we improve this model by explicitly incorporating source-side syntactic trees.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Huadong Chen , Shujian Huang , David Chiang , Jiajun Chen

Despite the popularity of the large language models (LLMs), their application to machine translation is relatively underexplored, especially in context-aware settings. This work presents a literature review of context-aware translation with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ramakrishna Appicharla , Baban Gain , Santanu Pal , Asif Ekbal

As a sequence-to-sequence generation task, neural machine translation (NMT) naturally contains intrinsic uncertainty, where a single sentence in one language has multiple valid counterparts in the other. However, the dominant methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Xiangpeng Wei , Heng Yu , Yue Hu , Rongxiang Weng , Luxi Xing , Weihua Luo

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 propose a new architecture for adapting a sentence-level sequence-to-sequence transformer by incorporating multiple pretrained document context signals and assess the impact on translation performance of (1) different pretraining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Domenic Donato , Lei Yu , Chris Dyer

Conventional attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) conducts dynamic alignment in generating the target sentence. By repeatedly reading the representation of source sentence, which keeps fixed after generated by the encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Fandong Meng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Qun Liu

Multi-source translation systems translate from multiple languages to a single target language. By using information from these multiple sources, these systems achieve large gains in accuracy. To train these systems, it is necessary to have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Yuta Nishimura , Katsuhito Sudoh , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura