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Machine translation (MT) has benefited from using synthetic training data originating from translating monolingual corpora, a technique known as backtranslation. Combining backtranslated data from different sources has led to better results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Xabier Soto , Dimitar Shterionov , Alberto Poncelas , Andy Way

Neural Machine Translation has achieved state-of-the-art performance for several language pairs using a combination of parallel and synthetic data. Synthetic data is often generated by back-translating sentences randomly sampled from…

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It has been shown that the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) drops starkly in low-resource conditions, often requiring large amounts of auxiliary data to achieve competitive results. An effective method of generating auxiliary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Lidia Kidane , Sachin Kumar , Yulia Tsvetkov

For most language combinations, parallel data is either scarce or simply unavailable. To address this, unsupervised machine translation (UMT) exploits large amounts of monolingual data by using synthetic data generation techniques such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Dana Ruiter , Dietrich Klakow , Josef van Genabith , Cristina España-Bonet

We introduce negative space learning machine translation (NSL-MT), a training method for underresourced languages, that augments limited parallel data with synthetically generated violations of the target language's grammar and explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mamadou K. Keita , Christopher Homan , Huy Le

Neural machine translation (NMT) has recently gained widespread attention because of its high translation accuracy. However, it shows poor performance in the translation of long sentences, which is a major issue in low-resource languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Seiichiro Kondo , Kengo Hotate , Masahiro Kaneko , Mamoru Komachi

Massively multilingual models for neural machine translation (NMT) are theoretically attractive, but often underperform bilingual models and deliver poor zero-shot translations. In this paper, we explore ways to improve them. We argue that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Biao Zhang , Philip Williams , Ivan Titov , Rico Sennrich

Large language models have significantly advanced Multilingual Machine Translation (MMT), yet scaling to many languages while keeping quality robust across directions remains challenging. In this paper, we identify a failure mode of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yingfeng Luo , Ziqiang Xu , Yuxuan Ouyang , Murun Yang , Dingyang Lin , Kaiyan Chang , Tong Zheng , Bei Li , Peinan Feng , Quan Du , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Despite the fact that multilingual agreement (MA) has shown its importance for multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), current methodologies in the field have two shortages: (i) require parallel data between multiple language pairs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Hongyuan Lu , Haoyang Huang , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Furu Wei , Wai Lam

Back-translation has proven to be an effective method to utilize monolingual data in neural machine translation (NMT), and iteratively conducting back-translation can further improve the model performance. Selecting which monolingual data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Zi-Yi Dou , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

Neural machine translation (NMT) systems require large amounts of high quality in-domain parallel corpora for training. State-of-the-art NMT systems still face challenges related to out-of-vocabulary words and dealing with low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jetic Gū , Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) trained in multiple language pairs has attracted considerable attention due to fewer model parameters and lower training costs by sharing knowledge among multiple languages. Nonetheless,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Jian Yang , Yuwei Yin , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Zhoujun Li , Furu Wei

With the rapid advancement of Neural Machine Translation (NMT), enhancing translation efficiency and quality has become a focal point of research. Despite the commendable performance of general models such as the Transformer in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jingpu Yang , Zehua Han , Mengyu Xiang , Helin Wang , Yuxiao Huang , Miao Fang

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) has become the new state-of-the-art in several language pairs. However, it remains a challenging problem how to integrate NMT with a bilingual dictionary which mainly contains words rarely or never seen in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Even with the latest developments in deep learning and large-scale language modeling, the task of machine translation (MT) of low-resource languages remains a challenge. Neural MT systems can be trained in an unsupervised way without any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ivana Kvapilíková , Ondřej Bojar

Parallel corpora are indispensable for training neural machine translation (NMT) models, and parallel corpora for most language pairs do not exist or are scarce. In such cases, pivot language NMT can be helpful where a pivot language is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Raj Dabre , Aizhan Imankulova , Masahiro Kaneko , Abhisek Chakrabarty

Recent works have shown that synthetic parallel data automatically generated by translation models can be effective for various neural machine translation (NMT) issues. In this study, we build NMT systems using only synthetic parallel data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Jaehong Park , Jongyoon Song , Sungroh Yoon

Back-translation (BT) has become one of the de facto components in unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT), and it explicitly makes UNMT have translation ability. However, all the pseudo bi-texts generated by BT are treated equally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Jinliang Lu , Jiajun Zhang

Though remarkable successes have been achieved by Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in recent years, it still suffers from the inadequate-translation problem. Previous studies show that explicitly modeling the Past and Future contents of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jianhao Yan , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou