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We consider two problems of NMT domain adaptation using meta-learning. First, we want to reach domain robustness, i.e., we want to reach high quality on both domains seen in the training data and unseen domains. Second, we want our systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Wen Lai , Jindřich Libovický , Alexander Fraser

As neural machine translation (NMT) systems become an important part of professional translator pipelines, a growing body of work focuses on combining NMT with terminologies. In many scenarios and particularly in cases of domain adaptation,…

The need for training data can impede the adoption of novel imaging modalities for learning-based medical image analysis. Domain adaptation methods partially mitigate this problem by translating training data from a related source domain to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Eleni Chiou , Francesco Giganti , Shonit Punwani , Iasonas Kokkinos , Eleftheria Panagiotaki

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models often lack diversity in their generated translations, even when paired with search algorithm, like beam search. A challenge is that the diversity in translations are caused by the variability in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Marie-Anne Lachaux , Armand Joulin , Guillaume Lample

Domain Translation is the problem of finding a meaningful correspondence between two domains. Since in a majority of settings paired supervision is not available, much work focuses on Unsupervised Domain Translation (UDT) where data samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Emmanuel de Bézenac , Ibrahim Ayed , Patrick Gallinari

The adaptation capability to a wide range of domains is crucial for scene text spotting models when deployed to real-world conditions. However, existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) approaches usually incorporate scene text detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Alloy Das , Sanket Biswas , Ayan Banerjee , Josep Lladós , Umapada Pal , Saumik Bhattacharya

Neural machine translation (NMT) has shown impressive performance when trained on large-scale corpora. However, generic NMT systems have demonstrated poor performance on out-of-domain translation. To mitigate this issue, several domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Emad A. Alghamdi , Jezia Zakraoui , Fares A. Abanmy

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems face significant challenges when working with low-resource languages, particularly in domain adaptation tasks. These difficulties arise due to limited training data and suboptimal model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Pratik Rakesh Singh , Kritarth Prasad , Mohammadi Zaki , Pankaj Wasnik

Previous studies on the domain adaptation for neural machine translation (NMT) mainly focus on the one-pass transferring out-of-domain translation knowledge to in-domain NMT model. In this paper, we argue that such a strategy fails to fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jiali Zeng , Yang Liu , Jinsong Su , Yubin Ge , Yaojie Lu , Yongjing Yin , Jiebo Luo

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

Domain adaptation is important in sentiment analysis as sentiment-indicating words vary between domains. Recently, multi-domain adaptation has become more pervasive, but existing approaches train on all available source domains including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Sebastian Ruder , Parsa Ghaffari , John G. Breslin

While we live in an increasingly interconnected world, different places still exhibit strikingly different cultures and many events we experience in our every day life pertain only to the specific place we live in. As a result, people often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Jiajun Shen , Peng-Jen Chen , Matt Le , Junxian He , Jiatao Gu , Myle Ott , Michael Auli , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Automatic speech recognition models are often adapted to improve their accuracy in a new domain. A potential drawback of model adaptation to new domains is catastrophic forgetting, where the Word Error Rate on the original domain is…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Somshubra Majumdar , Shantanu Acharya , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

We explore the idea of automatically crafting a tuning dataset for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) that makes the hyper-parameters of the SMT system more robust with respect to some specific deficiencies of the parameter tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Preslav Nakov , Stephan Vogel

The key challenge of multi-domain translation lies in simultaneously encoding both the general knowledge shared across domains and the particular knowledge distinctive to each domain in a unified model. Previous work shows that the standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yong Wang , Longyue Wang , Shuming Shi , Victor O. K. Li , Zhaopeng Tu

We present a three-pronged approach to improving Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), building on recent success in the application of neural networks to SMT. First, we propose new features based on neural networks to model various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Hendra Setiawan , Zhongqiang Huang , Jacob Devlin , Thomas Lamar , Rabih Zbib , Richard Schwartz , John Makhoul

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems built on multilingual sequence-to-sequence Language Models (msLMs) fail to deliver expected results when the amount of parallel data for a language, as well as the language's representation in the…

This thesis contributes to the mathematical foundation of domain adaptation as emerging field in machine learning. In contrast to classical statistical learning, the framework of domain adaptation takes into account deviations between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-23 Werner Zellinger

Previous works mostly focus on either multilingual or multi-domain aspects of neural machine translation (NMT). This paper investigates whether the domain information can be transferred across languages on the composition of multi-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Thuy-Trang Vu , Shahram Khadivi , Xuanli He , Dinh Phung , Gholamreza Haffari

Currently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable results in machine translation. However, their performance in multi-domain translation (MDT) is less satisfactory, the meanings of words can vary across different domains,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhibo Man , Yuanmeng Chen , Yujie Zhang , Jinan Xu