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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) is the task of translating a text from one language to another with the use of a trained neural network. Several existing works aim at incorporating external information into NMT models to improve or control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Charles Brazier , Jean-Luc Rouas

An attentional mechanism has lately been used to improve neural machine translation (NMT) by selectively focusing on parts of the source sentence during translation. However, there has been little work exploring useful architectures for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Minh-Thang Luong , Hieu Pham , Christopher D. Manning

This work proposes an extensive analysis of the Transformer architecture in the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) setting. Focusing on the encoder-decoder attention mechanism, we prove that attention weights systematically make alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Javier Ferrando , Marta R. Costa-jussà

This work investigates the alignment problem in state-of-the-art multi-head attention models based on the transformer architecture. We demonstrate that alignment extraction in transformer models can be improved by augmenting an additional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Tamer Alkhouli , Gabriel Bretschner , Hermann Ney

While it has been shown that Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is highly sensitive to noisy parallel training samples, prior work treats all types of mismatches between source and target as noise. As a result, it remains unclear how samples…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Eleftheria Briakou , Marine Carpuat

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

This paper introduces THUMT, an open-source toolkit for neural machine translation (NMT) developed by the Natural Language Processing Group at Tsinghua University. THUMT implements the standard attention-based encoder-decoder framework on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jiacheng Zhang , Yanzhuo Ding , Shiqi Shen , Yong Cheng , Maosong Sun , Huanbo Luan , Yang Liu

OpenNMT is an open-source toolkit for neural machine translation (NMT). The system prioritizes efficiency, modularity, and extensibility with the goal of supporting NMT research into model architectures, feature representations, and source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Guillaume Klein , Yoon Kim , Yuntian Deng , Vincent Nguyen , Jean Senellart , Alexander M. Rush

The attention mechanisim is appealing for neural machine translation, since it is able to dynam- ically encode a source sentence by generating a alignment between a target word and source words. Unfortunately, it has been proved to be worse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Lemao Liu , Masao Utiyama , Andrew Finch , Eiichiro Sumita

Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (UNMT) focuses on improving NMT results under the assumption there is no human translated parallel data, yet little work has been done so far in highlighting its advantages compared to supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Isidora Chara Tourni , Derry Wijaya

The attention mechanism is an important part of the neural machine translation (NMT) where it was reported to produce richer source representation compared to fixed-length encoding sequence-to-sequence models. Recently, the effectiveness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Ozan Caglayan , Loïc Barrault , Fethi Bougares

In recent years, several studies on neural machine translation (NMT) have attempted to use document-level context by using a multi-encoder and two attention mechanisms to read the current and previous sentences to incorporate the context of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Hayahide Yamagishi , Mamoru Komachi

We introduce MT-LENS, a framework designed to evaluate Machine Translation (MT) systems across a variety of tasks, including translation quality, gender bias detection, added toxicity, and robustness to misspellings. While several toolkits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Javier García Gilabert , Carlos Escolano , Audrey Mash , Xixian Liao , Maite Melero

Machine translation (MT) is a technique that leverages computers to translate human languages automatically. Nowadays, neural machine translation (NMT) which models direct mapping between source and target languages with deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Confidence estimation aims to quantify the confidence of the model prediction, providing an expectation of success. A well-calibrated confidence estimate enables accurate failure prediction and proper risk measurement when given noisy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yu Lu , Jiali Zeng , Jiajun Zhang , Shuangzhi Wu , Mu Li

Although neural machine translation (NMT) has advanced the state-of-the-art on various language pairs, the interpretability of NMT remains unsatisfactory. In this work, we propose to address this gap by focusing on understanding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Shilin He , Zhaopeng Tu , Xing Wang , Longyue Wang , Michael R. Lyu , Shuming Shi

This paper explores the use of Deep Learning methods for automatic estimation of quality of human translations. Automatic estimation can provide useful feedback for translation teaching, examination and quality control. Conventional methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yu Yuan , Serge Sharoff

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has made remarkable progress over the past years. However, under-translation and over-translation remain two challenging problems in state-of-the-art NMT systems. In this work, we conduct an in-depth…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Chenze Shao , Fandong Meng , Jiali Zeng , Jie Zhou

In this paper, we propose a robust neural machine translation (NMT) framework. The framework consists of a homophone noise detector and a syllable-aware NMT model to homophone errors. The detector identifies potential homophone errors in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Wenjie Qin , Xiang Li , Yuhui Sun , Deyi Xiong , Jianwei Cui , Bin Wang