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We introduce our efforts towards building a universal neural machine translation (NMT) system capable of translating between any language pair. We set a milestone towards this goal by building a single massively multilingual NMT model…

Behavioral testing in NLP allows fine-grained evaluation of systems by examining their linguistic capabilities through the analysis of input-output behavior. Unfortunately, existing work on behavioral testing in Machine Translation (MT) is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Javier Ferrando , Matthias Sperber , Hendra Setiawan , Dominic Telaar , Saša Hasan

Through the development of neural machine translation, the quality of machine translation systems has been improved significantly. By exploiting advancements in deep learning, systems are now able to better approximate the complex mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Jan Niehues , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Thanh-Le Ha , Matthias Sperber , Alex Waibel

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, with the potential to overcome many of the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Unfortunately, NMT systems are known to…

In recent years, natural language processing (NLP) has got great development with deep learning techniques. In the sub-field of machine translation, a new approach named Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has emerged and got massive attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Shuoheng Yang , Yuxin Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Recent work achieved remarkable results in training neural machine translation (NMT) systems in a fully unsupervised way, with new and dedicated architectures that rely on monolingual corpora only. In this work, we propose to define…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Benjamin Marie , Atsushi Fujita

Idiom translation is a challenging problem in machine translation because the meaning of idioms is non-compositional, and a literal (word-by-word) translation is likely to be wrong. In this paper, we focus on evaluating the quality of idiom…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Yutong Shao , Rico Sennrich , Bonnie Webber , Federico Fancellu

Neural Machine translation is a challenging task due to the inherent complex nature and the fluidity that natural languages bring. Nonetheless, in recent years, it has achieved state-of-the-art performance in several language pairs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Vakul Goyle , Parvathy Krishnaswamy , Kannan Girija Ravikumar , Utsa Chattopadhyay , Kartikay Goyle

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to small perturbations of their inputs, known as adversarial attacks. In this paper, we investigate the vulnerability of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models to adversarial attacks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Sahar Sadrizadeh , Ljiljana Dolamic , Pascal Frossard

The last decade has witnessed enormous improvements in science and technology, stimulating the growing demand for economic and cultural exchanges in various countries. Building a neural machine translation (NMT) system has become an urgent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Bin Li , Yixuan Weng , Fei Xia , Hanjun Deng

Generative models have become adept at producing artifacts such as images, videos, and prose at human-like levels of proficiency. New generative techniques, such as unsupervised neural machine translation (NMT), have recently been applied…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Justin D. Weisz , Michael Muller , Stephanie Houde , John Richards , Steven I. Ross , Fernando Martinez , Mayank Agarwal , Kartik Talamadupula

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

Traditional machine translation (MT) metrics provide an average measure of translation quality that is insensitive to the long tail of behavioral problems in MT. Examples include translation of numbers, physical units, dropped content and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Vikas Raunak , Matt Post , Arul Menezes

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

We introduce a dataset comprising commercial machine translations, gathered weekly over six years across 12 translation directions. Since human A/B testing is commonly used, we assume commercial systems improve over time, which enables us…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Guojun Wu , Shay B. Cohen , Rico Sennrich

Sentiment classification has been crucial for many natural language processing (NLP) applications, such as the analysis of movie reviews, tweets, or customer feedback. A sufficiently large amount of data is required to build a robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Alberto Poncelas , Pintu Lohar , Andy Way , James Hadley

Translating in real-time, a.k.a. simultaneous translation, outputs translation words before the input sentence ends, which is a challenging problem for conventional machine translation methods. We propose a neural machine translation (NMT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Jiatao Gu , Graham Neubig , Kyunghyun Cho , Victor O. K. Li

Multi-source translation is an approach to exploit multiple inputs (e.g. in two different languages) to increase translation accuracy. In this paper, we examine approaches for multi-source neural machine translation (NMT) using an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yuta Nishimura , Katsuhito Sudoh , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

Neural machine translation (NMT) has become the de-facto standard in real-world machine translation applications. However, NMT models can unpredictably produce severely pathological translations, known as hallucinations, that seriously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Nuno M. Guerreiro , Pierre Colombo , Pablo Piantanida , André F. T. Martins

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein carefully crafted perturbations of the input can mislead the target model. In this paper, we introduce ACT, a novel adversarial attack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Sahar Sadrizadeh , Ljiljana Dolamic , Pascal Frossard