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Direct speech-to-text translation (ST) models are usually trained on corpora segmented at sentence level, but at inference time they are commonly fed with audio split by a voice activity detector (VAD). Since VAD segmentation is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Marco Gaido , Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Matteo Negri , Mauro Cettolo , Marco Turchi

Word segmentation plays a pivotal role in improving any Arabic NLP application. Therefore, a lot of research has been spent in improving its accuracy. Off-the-shelf tools, however, are: i) complicated to use and ii) domain/dialect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Hassan Sajjad , Fahim Dalvi , Nadir Durrani , Ahmed Abdelali , Yonatan Belinkov , Stephan Vogel

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach for automatic translation of text from one human language into another. The basic concept in NMT is to train a large Neural Network that maximizes the translation performance on a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Markus Freitag , Yaser Al-Onaizan

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

Neural machine translation (NMT) is a deep learning based approach for machine translation, which yields the state-of-the-art translation performance in scenarios where large-scale parallel corpora are available. Although the high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Chenhui Chu , Rui Wang

Many automated processes such as auto-piloting rely on a good semantic segmentation as a critical component. To speed up performance, it is common to downsample the input frame. However, this comes at the cost of missed small objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Dmitrii Marin , Zijian He , Peter Vajda , Priyam Chatterjee , Sam Tsai , Fei Yang , Yuri Boykov

Neural machine translation (NMT) is sensitive to domain shift. In this paper, we address this problem in an active learning setting where we can spend a given budget on translating in-domain data, and gradually fine-tune a pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig

While neural machine translation (NMT) models provide improved translation quality in an elegant, end-to-end framework, it is less clear what they learn about language. Recent work has started evaluating the quality of vector…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Yonatan Belinkov , Lluís Màrquez , Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , James Glass

This paper presents an in-depth investigation on integrating neural language models in translation systems. Scaling neural language models is a difficult task, but crucial for real-world applications. This paper evaluates the impact on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Paul Baltescu , Phil Blunsom

Neural machine translation (NMT) has been accelerated by deep learning neural networks over statistical-based approaches, due to the plethora and programmability of commodity heterogeneous computing architectures such as FPGAs and GPUs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Robert Lim , Kenneth Heafield , Hieu Hoang , Mark Briers , Allen Malony

Compared to sentence-level systems, document-level neural machine translation (NMT) models produce a more consistent output across a document and are able to better resolve ambiguities within the input. There are many works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Christian Herold , Hermann Ney

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are typically trained on heterogeneous data that are concatenated and randomly shuffled. However, not all of the training data are equally useful to the model. Curriculum training aims to present the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Tasnim Mohiuddin , Philipp Koehn , Vishrav Chaudhary , James Cross , Shruti Bhosale , Shafiq Joty

Standard neural machine translation (NMT) is on the assumption of document-level context independent. Most existing document-level NMT methods are satisfied with a smattering sense of brief document-level information, while this work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Shu Jiang , Hai Zhao , Zuchao Li , Bao-Liang Lu

Neural machine translation (NMT) usually works in a seq2seq learning way by viewing either source or target sentence as a linear sequence of words, which can be regarded as a special case of graph, taking words in the sequence as nodes and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Sufeng Duan , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang

Tokenizing raw texts into word units is an essential pre-processing step for critical tasks in the NLP pipeline such as tagging, parsing, named entity recognition, and more. For most languages, this tokenization step straightforward.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Idan Brusilovsky , Reut Tsarfaty

Standard neural machine translation (NMT) is on the assumption that the document-level context is independent. Most existing document-level NMT approaches are satisfied with a smattering sense of global document-level information, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shu Jiang , Rui Wang , Zuchao Li , Masao Utiyama , Kehai Chen , Eiichiro Sumita , Hai Zhao , Bao-liang Lu

Adding linguistic information (syntax or semantics) to neural machine translation (NMT) has mostly focused on using point estimates from pre-trained models. Directly using the capacity of massive pre-trained contextual word embedding models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

Speech segmentation is an essential part of speech translation (ST) systems in real-world scenarios. Since most ST models are designed to process speech segments, long-form audio must be partitioned into shorter segments before translation.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Jaesong Lee , Soyoon Kim , Hanbyul Kim , Joon Son Chung

Robot perception systems need to perform reliable image segmentation in real-time on noisy, raw perception data. State-of-the-art segmentation approaches use large CNN models and carefully constructed datasets; however, these models focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Jonathan C Balloch , Varun Agrawal , Irfan Essa , Sonia Chernova

Word segmentation is the task of inserting or deleting word boundary characters in order to separate character sequences that correspond to words in some language. In this article we propose an approach based on a beam search algorithm and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yerai Doval , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez