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State-of-the-art methods for learning cross-lingual word embeddings have relied on bilingual dictionaries or parallel corpora. Recent studies showed that the need for parallel data supervision can be alleviated with character-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Alexis Conneau , Guillaume Lample , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato , Ludovic Denoyer , Hervé Jégou

In-context machine translation (MT) with large language models (LLMs) is a promising approach for low-resource MT, as it can readily take advantage of linguistic resources such as grammar books and dictionaries. Such resources are usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Renhao Pei , Yihong Liu , Peiqin Lin , François Yvon , Hinrich Schütze

Although neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved impressive progress recently, it is usually trained on the clean parallel data set and hence cannot work well when the input sentence is the production of the automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Xiang Li , Haiyang Xue , Wei Chen , Yang Liu , Yang Feng , Qun Liu

In this paper, we address the task of improving pair-wise machine translation for specific low resource Indian languages. Multilingual NMT models have demonstrated a reasonable amount of effectiveness on resource-poor languages. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Kartheek Akella , Sai Himal Allu , Sridhar Suresh Ragupathi , Aman Singhal , Zeeshan Khan , Vinay P. Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

We propose multi-way, multilingual neural machine translation. The proposed approach enables a single neural translation model to translate between multiple languages, with a number of parameters that grows only linearly with the number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Orhan Firat , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach for Machine Translation (MT), and due to its success, it has absorbed the attention of many researchers in the field. In this paper, we study NMT model on Persian-English language pairs, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Mohaddeseh Bastan , Shahram Khadivi , Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour

Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese are two varieties of the same language and, despite their close similarities, they exhibit several differences. However, there is a significant disproportion in the availability of resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 João Sanches , Rui Ribeiro , Luísa Coheur

Neural machine translation (NMT) systems have recently obtained state-of-the art in many machine translation systems between popular language pairs because of the availability of data. For low-resourced language pairs, there are few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Thi-Vinh Ngo , Thanh-Le Ha , Phuong-Thai Nguyen , Le-Minh Nguyen

In this paper, we explore a simple solution to "Multi-Source Neural Machine Translation" (MSNMT) which only relies on preprocessing a N-way multilingual corpus without modifying the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) architecture or training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Raj Dabre , Fabien Cromieres , Sadao Kurohashi

Modern machine translation (MT) systems depend on large parallel corpora, often collected from the Internet. However, recent evidence indicates that (i) a substantial portion of these texts are machine-generated translations, and (ii) an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Cristian García-Romero , Miquel Esplà-Gomis , Felipe Sánchez-Martínez

We propose a new approach for learning contextualised cross-lingual word embeddings based on a small parallel corpus (e.g. a few hundred sentence pairs). Our method obtains word embeddings via an LSTM encoder-decoder model that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Takashi Wada , Tomoharu Iwata , Yuji Matsumoto , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

This paper introduces a pioneering English-Azerbaijani (Arabic Script) parallel corpus, designed to bridge the technological gap in language learning and machine translation (MT) for under-resourced languages. Consisting of 548,000 parallel…

We propose a simple solution to use a single Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model to translate between multiple languages. Our solution requires no change in the model architecture from our base system but instead introduces an artificial…

Idioms are an important language phenomenon in Chinese, but idiom translation is notoriously hard. Current machine translation models perform poorly on idiom translation, while idioms are sparse in many translation datasets. We present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Kenan Tang

Low-resource indigenous languages often lack the parallel corpora required for effective neural machine translation (NMT). Synthetic data generation offers a practical strategy for mitigating this limitation in data-scarce settings. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Aashish Dhawan , Christopher Driggers-Ellis , Christan Grant , Daisy Zhe Wang

Neural machine translation (NMT) approaches have improved the state of the art in many machine translation settings over the last couple of years, but they require large amounts of training data to produce sensible output. We demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Robert Östling , Jörg Tiedemann

Neural Machine Translation with its significant results, still has a great problem: lack or absence of parallel corpus for many languages. This article suggests a method for generating considerable amount of parallel corpus for any language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Farshad Jafari

Translating culture-related content is vital for effective cross-cultural communication. However, many culture-specific items (CSIs) often lack viable translations across languages, making it challenging to collect high-quality, diverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Binwei Yao , Ming Jiang , Tara Bobinac , Diyi Yang , Junjie Hu

We present Samanantar, the largest publicly available parallel corpora collection for Indic languages. The collection contains a total of 49.7 million sentence pairs between English and 11 Indic languages (from two language families).…

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) learns to translate multiple language pairs with a single model, potentially improving both the accuracy and the memory-efficiency of deployed models. However, the heavy data imbalance between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Chunting Zhou , Daniel Levy , Xian Li , Marjan Ghazvininejad , Graham Neubig