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In spite of the recent success of neural machine translation (NMT) in standard benchmarks, the lack of large parallel corpora poses a major practical problem for many language pairs. There have been several proposals to alleviate this issue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre , Kyunghyun Cho

In this paper, we show that the combination of Phrase Pair Injection and Corpus Filtering boosts the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems. We extract parallel phrases and sentences from the pseudo-parallel corpus and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Akshay Batheja , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are typically trained on datasets with limited exposure to Scientific, Technical and Educational domains. Translation models thus, in general, struggle with tasks that involve scientific understanding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Advait Joglekar , Srinivasan Umesh

In this paper, we investigate the problem of training neural machine translation (NMT) systems with a dataset of more than 40 billion bilingual sentence pairs, which is larger than the largest dataset to date by orders of magnitude.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yuxian Meng , Xiangyuan Ren , Zijun Sun , Xiaoya Li , Arianna Yuan , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

We learn a joint multilingual sentence embedding and use the distance between sentences in different languages to filter noisy parallel data and to mine for parallel data in large news collections. We are able to improve a competitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Holger Schwenk

We conducted a detailed analysis on the quality of web-mined corpora for two low-resource languages (making three language pairs, English-Sinhala, English-Tamil and Sinhala-Tamil). We ranked each corpus according to a similarity measure and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Surangika Ranathunga , Nisansa de Silva , Menan Velayuthan , Aloka Fernando , Charitha Rathnayake

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been proven to achieve impressive results. The NMT system translation results depend strongly on the size and quality of parallel corpora. Nevertheless, for many language pairs, no rich-resource parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Jinyi Zhang , Tadahiro Matsumoto

We describe PARANMT-50M, a dataset of more than 50 million English-English sentential paraphrase pairs. We generated the pairs automatically by using neural machine translation to translate the non-English side of a large parallel corpus,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 John Wieting , Kevin Gimpel

Parallel Data Curation (PDC) techniques aim to filter out noisy parallel sentences from web-mined corpora. Ranking sentence pairs using similarity scores on sentence embeddings derived from Pre-trained Multilingual Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Aloka Fernando , Nisansa de Silva , Menan Velyuthan , Charitha Rathnayake , Surangika Ranathunga

Indian language machine translation performance is hampered due to the lack of large scale multi-lingual sentence aligned corpora and robust benchmarks. Through this paper, we provide and analyse an automated framework to obtain such a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Jerin Philip , Shashank Siripragada , Vinay P. Namboodiri , C. V. Jawahar

In simultaneous machine translation, the objective is to determine when to produce a partial translation given a continuous stream of source words, with a trade-off between latency and quality. We propose a neural machine translation (NMT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Patrick Wilken , Tamer Alkhouli , Evgeny Matusov , Pavel Golik

Machine translation is highly sensitive to the size and quality of the training data, which has led to an increasing interest in collecting and filtering large parallel corpora. In this paper, we propose a new method for this task based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Holger Schwenk

We present ParaBank, a large-scale English paraphrase dataset that surpasses prior work in both quantity and quality. Following the approach of ParaNMT, we train a Czech-English neural machine translation (NMT) system to generate novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-14 J. Edward Hu , Rachel Rudinger , Matt Post , Benjamin Van Durme

This paper investigates the use of Machine Translation (MT) to bootstrap a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) system for a new language for the use case of a large-scale voice-controlled device. The goal is to decrease the cost and time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Judith Gaspers , Penny Karanasou , Rajen Chatterjee

Despite the growing variety of languages supported by existing multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) models, most of the world's languages are still being left behind. We aim to extend large-scale MNMT models to incorporate a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wen Lai , Viktor Hangya , Yingli Shen , Alexander Fraser

Lecture transcript translation helps learners understand online courses, however, building a high-quality lecture machine translation system lacks publicly available parallel corpora. To address this, we examine a framework for parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Haiyue Song , Raj Dabre , Chenhui Chu , Atsushi Fujita , Sadao Kurohashi

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

We describe a multi-task learning approach to train a Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model with a Relevance-based Auxiliary Task (RAT) for search query translation. The translation process for Cross-lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , Hamed Bonab , James Allan

Existing neural machine translation (NMT) studies mainly focus on developing dataset-specific models based on data from different tasks (e.g., document translation and chat translation). Although the dataset-specific models have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Jinan Xu , Jiaan Wang , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have been proved strong when translating clean texts, but they are very sensitive to noise in the input. Improving NMT models robustness can be seen as a form of "domain" adaption to noise. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhenhao Li , Lucia Specia