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Neural machine translation (NMT) has recently achieved impressive results. A potential problem of the existing NMT algorithm, however, is that the decoding is conducted from left to right, without considering the right context. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Aodong Li , Shiyue Zhang , Dong Wang , Thomas Fang Zheng

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

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

We build a multi-source machine translation model and train it to maximize the probability of a target English string given French and German sources. Using the neural encoder-decoder framework, we explore several combination methods and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Barret Zoph , Kevin Knight

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Dzmitry Bahdanau , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

The dominant neural machine translation models are based on the encoder-decoder structure, and many of them rely on an unconstrained receptive field over source and target sequences. In this paper we study a new architecture that breaks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-17 José A. R. Fonollosa , Noe Casas , Marta R. Costa-jussà

In the past few years, attention mechanisms have become an indispensable component of end-to-end neural machine translation models. However, previous attention models always refer to some source words when predicting a target word, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Junhui Li , Muhua Zhu

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has become a popular technology in recent years, and the encoder-decoder framework is the mainstream among all the methods. It's obvious that the quality of the semantic representations from encoding is very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Boyuan Pan , Yazheng Yang , Zhou Zhao , Yueting Zhuang , Deng Cai

Recent evidence reveals that Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models with deeper neural networks can be more effective but are difficult to train. In this paper, we present a MultiScale Collaborative (MSC) framework to ease the training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Xiangpeng Wei , Heng Yu , Yue Hu , Yue Zhang , Rongxiang Weng , Weihua Luo

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

Recent years have witnessed the rapid advance in neural machine translation (NMT), the core of which lies in the encoder-decoder architecture. Inspired by the recent progress of large-scale pre-trained language models on machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Shuo Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Zhixing Tan , Wenxuan Wang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

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

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

We introduce a Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation model in which a doubly-attentive decoder naturally incorporates spatial visual features obtained using pre-trained convolutional neural networks, bridging the gap between image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Iacer Calixto , Qun Liu , Nick Campbell

We introduce multi-modal, attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) models which incorporate visual features into different parts of both the encoder and the decoder. We utilise global image features extracted using a pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Iacer Calixto , Qun Liu , Nick Campbell

The prevalent approach to neural machine translation relies on bi-directional LSTMs to encode the source sentence. In this paper we present a faster and simpler architecture based on a succession of convolutional layers. This allows to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Jonas Gehring , Michael Auli , David Grangier , Yann N. Dauphin

Recently, the Transformer model that is based solely on attention mechanisms, has advanced the state-of-the-art on various machine translation tasks. However, recent studies reveal that the lack of recurrence hinders its further improvement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Jie Hao , Xing Wang , Baosong Yang , Longyue Wang , Jinfeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Tu

Recent advances in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) show that adding syntactic information to NMT systems can improve the quality of their translations. Most existing work utilizes some specific types of linguistically-inspired tree…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Xinyi Wang , Hieu Pham , Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

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

Attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models suffer from attention deficiency issues as has been observed in recent research. We propose a novel mechanism to address some of these limitations and improve the NMT attention.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Baskaran Sankaran , Haitao Mi , Yaser Al-Onaizan , Abe Ittycheriah