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Neural machine translation (NMT) has arguably achieved human level parity when trained and evaluated at the sentence-level. Document-level neural machine translation has received less attention and lags behind its sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Elman Mansimov , Gábor Melis , Lei Yu

Phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) systems have previously been used for the task of grammatical error correction (GEC) to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy. The superiority of SMT systems comes from their ability to learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Shamil Chollampatt , Kaveh Taghipour , Hwee Tou Ng

We propose an extension to neural network language models to adapt their prediction to the recent history. Our model is a simplified version of memory augmented networks, which stores past hidden activations as memory and accesses them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Edouard Grave , Armand Joulin , Nicolas Usunier

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

In recent years, several studies on neural machine translation (NMT) have attempted to use document-level context by using a multi-encoder and two attention mechanisms to read the current and previous sentences to incorporate the context of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Hayahide Yamagishi , Mamoru Komachi

Simultaneous neural machine translation(SNMT) models start emitting the target sequence before they have processed the source sequence. The recent adaptive policies for SNMT use monotonic attention to perform read/write decisions based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Mohd Abbas Zaidi , Sathish Indurthi , Beomseok Lee , Nikhil Kumar Lakumarapu , Sangha Kim

Neural machine translation (NMT) heavily relies on word-level modelling to learn semantic representations of input sentences. However, for languages without natural word delimiters (e.g., Chinese) where input sentences have to be tokenized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Jinsong Su , Zhixing Tan , Deyi Xiong , Rongrong Ji , Xiaodong Shi , Yang Liu

Document-level context for neural machine translation (NMT) is crucial to improve the translation consistency and cohesion, the translation of ambiguous inputs, as well as several other linguistic phenomena. Many works have been published…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Christian Herold , Hermann Ney

The attention model has become a standard component in neural machine translation (NMT) and it guides translation process by selectively focusing on parts of the source sentence when predicting each target word. However, we find that the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Long Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Recently, document-level neural machine translation (NMT) has become a hot topic in the community of machine translation. Despite its success, most of existing studies ignored the discourse structure information of the input document to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Junxuan Chen , Xiang Li , Jiarui Zhang , Chulun Zhou , Jianwei Cui , Bin Wang , Jinsong Su

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models generally perform translation using a fixed-size lexical vocabulary, which is an important bottleneck on their generalization capability and overall translation quality. The standard approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Duygu Ataman , Orhan Firat , Mattia A. Di Gangi , Marcello Federico , Alexandra Birch

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) can be improved by including document-level contextual information. For this purpose, we propose a hierarchical attention model to capture the context in a structured and dynamic manner. The model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Lesly Miculicich , Dhananjay Ram , Nikolaos Pappas , James Henderson

In neural machine translation (NMT), generation of a target word depends on both source and target contexts. We find that source contexts have a direct impact on the adequacy of a translation while target contexts affect the fluency.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Zhaopeng Tu , Yang Liu , Zhengdong Lu , Xiaohua Liu , Hang Li

Machine translation systems are expected to cope with various types of constraints in many practical scenarios. While neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved strong performance in unconstrained cases, it is non-trivial to impose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Shuo Wang , Peng Li , Zhixing Tan , Zhaopeng Tu , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

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

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Shu Jiang , Hai Zhao , Zuchao Li , Bao-Liang Lu

Translating characters instead of words or word-fragments has the potential to simplify the processing pipeline for neural machine translation (NMT), and improve results by eliminating hyper-parameters and manual feature engineering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Colin Cherry , George Foster , Ankur Bapna , Orhan Firat , Wolfgang Macherey

Existing neural machine translation (NMT) systems utilize sequence-to-sequence neural networks to generate target translation word by word, and then make the generated word at each time-step and the counterpart in the references as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Chaoqun Duan , Kehai Chen , Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Conghui Zhu , Tiejun Zhao

A great proportion of sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) adopt Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to generate translation word by word following a sequential order. As the studies of linguistics have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Junyang Lin , Xu Sun , Xuancheng Ren , Shuming Ma , Jinsong Su , Qi Su

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have been proved strong when translating clean texts, but they are very sensitive to noise in the input. Improving NMT models robustness can be seen as a form of "domain" adaption to noise. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhenhao Li , Lucia Specia