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While neural machine translation (NMT) has become the new paradigm, the parameter optimization requires large-scale parallel data which is scarce in many domains and language pairs. In this paper, we address a new translation scenario in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Yining Wang , Yang Zhao , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong , Zhengshan Xue

Monolingual data has been demonstrated to be helpful in improving the translation quality of neural machine translation (NMT). The current methods stay at the usage of word-level knowledge, such as generating synthetic parallel data or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Rongxiang Weng , Heng Yu , Shujian Huang , Weihua Luo , Jiajun Chen

Unsupervised machine translation---i.e., not assuming any cross-lingual supervision signal, whether a dictionary, translations, or comparable corpora---seems impossible, but nevertheless, Lample et al. (2018) recently proposed a fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Anders Søgaard , Sebastian Ruder , Ivan Vulić

Neural machine translation (NMT), a new approach to machine translation, has achieved promising results comparable to those of traditional approaches such as statistical machine translation (SMT). Despite its recent success, NMT cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Zi Long , Takehito Utsuro , Tomoharu Mitsuhashi , Mikio Yamamoto

Within the field of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), the neural approach (NMT) has recently emerged as the first technology able to challenge the long-standing dominance of phrase-based approaches (PBMT). In particular, at the IWSLT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Luisa Bentivogli , Arianna Bisazza , Mauro Cettolo , Marcello Federico

In this paper, we extend an attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) model by allowing it to access an entire training set of parallel sentence pairs even after training. The proposed approach consists of two stages. In the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Jiatao Gu , Yong Wang , Kyunghyun Cho , Victor O. K. Li

A prerequisite for training corpus-based machine translation (MT) systems -- either Statistical MT (SMT) or Neural MT (NMT) -- is the availability of high-quality parallel data. This is arguably more important today than ever before, as NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Alberto Poncelas , Dimitar Shterionov , Andy Way , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Peyman Passban

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has recently achieved remarkable results with only large monolingual corpora in each language. However, the uncertainty of associating target with source sentences makes UNMT theoretically an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yuanhang Su , Kai Fan , Nguyen Bach , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Fei Huang

Neural machine translation (NMT) becomes a new approach to machine translation and generates much more fluent results compared to statistical machine translation (SMT). However, SMT is usually better than NMT in translation adequacy. It is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Long Zhou , Wenpeng Hu , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Machine translation has recently achieved impressive performance thanks to recent advances in deep learning and the availability of large-scale parallel corpora. There have been numerous attempts to extend these successes to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Guillaume Lample , Alexis Conneau , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Neural Machine Translation (MT) has radically changed the way systems are developed. A major difference with the previous generation (Phrase-Based MT) is the way monolingual target data, which often abounds, is used in these two paradigms.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Franck Burlot , François Yvon

Language style transferring rephrases text with specific stylistic attributes while preserving the original attribute-independent content. One main challenge in learning a style transfer system is a lack of parallel data where the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Zhirui Zhang , Shuo Ren , Shujie Liu , Jianyong Wang , Peng Chen , Mu Li , Ming Zhou , Enhong Chen

We describe an unsupervised method to create pseudo-parallel corpora for machine translation (MT) from unaligned text. We use multilingual BERT to create source and target sentence embeddings for nearest-neighbor search and adapt the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Phillip Keung , Julian Salazar , Yichao Lu , Noah A. Smith

Machine Translation is one of the major oldest and the most active research area in Natural Language Processing. Currently, Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) dominates the Machine Translation research. Statistical Machine Translation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-01 M. Anand Kumar , V. Dhanalakshmi , K. P. Soman , V. Sharmiladevi

Machine Translation (MT) system generally aims at automatic representation of source language into target language retaining the originality of context using various Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Among various NLP methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sudhansu Bala Das , Divyajoti Panda , Tapas Kumar Mishra , Bidyut Kr. Patra

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems rely on large amounts of parallel data. This is a major challenge for low-resource languages. Building on recent work on unsupervised and semi-supervised methods, we present an approach that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Lierni Sestorain , Massimiliano Ciaramita , Christian Buck , Thomas Hofmann

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has obtained state-of-the art performance for several language pairs, while only using parallel data for training. Target-side monolingual data plays an important role in boosting fluency for phrase-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Rico Sennrich , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

Current multimodal machine translation (MMT) systems rely on fully supervised data (i.e models are trained on sentences with their translations and accompanying images). However, this type of data is costly to collect, limiting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Matthieu Futeral , Cordelia Schmid , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

Unsupervised machine translation (MT) has recently achieved impressive results with monolingual corpora only. However, it is still challenging to associate source-target sentences in the latent space. As people speak different languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Po-Yao Huang , Junjie Hu , Xiaojun Chang , Alexander Hauptmann

An effective method to improve neural machine translation with monolingual data is to augment the parallel training corpus with back-translations of target language sentences. This work broadens the understanding of back-translation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Sergey Edunov , Myle Ott , Michael Auli , David Grangier