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We propose a novel decoding approach for neural machine translation (NMT) based on continuous optimisation. We convert decoding - basically a discrete optimization problem - into a continuous optimization problem. The resulting constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Cong Duy Vu Hoang , Gholamreza Haffari , Trevor Cohn

Context-aware neural machine translation (NMT) is a promising direction to improve the translation quality by making use of the additional context, e.g., document-level translation, or having meta-information. Although there exist various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jingjing Huo , Christian Herold , Yingbo Gao , Leonard Dahlmann , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

Document-level machine translation incorporates inter-sentential dependencies into the translation of a source sentence. In this paper, we propose a new framework to model cross-sentence dependencies by training neural machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Pei Zhang , Xu Zhang , Wei Chen , Jian Yu , Yanfeng Wang , Deyi Xiong

The success of deep learning in natural language processing raises intriguing questions about the nature of linguistic meaning and ways in which it can be processed by natural and artificial systems. One such question has to do with subword…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yuri Balashov

Previous studies have shown that neural machine translation (NMT) models can benefit from explicitly modeling translated (Past) and untranslated (Future) to groups of translated and untranslated contents through parts-to-wholes assignment.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Zaixiang Zheng , Shujian Huang , Zhaopeng Tu , Xin-Yu Dai , Jiajun Chen

We present an approach to neural machine translation (NMT) that supports multiple domains in a single model and allows switching between the domains when translating. The core idea is to treat text domains as distinct languages and use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sander Tars , Mark Fishel

In this paper, we propose Neural Phrase-to-Phrase Machine Translation (NP$^2$MT). Our model uses a phrase attention mechanism to discover relevant input (source) segments that are used by a decoder to generate output (target) phrases. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Jiangtao Feng , Lingpeng Kong , Po-Sen Huang , Chong Wang , Da Huang , Jiayuan Mao , Kan Qiao , Dengyong Zhou

Tokenization or segmentation is a wide concept that covers simple processes such as separating punctuation from words, or more sophisticated processes such as applying morphological knowledge. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) requires a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Miguel Domingo , Mercedes Garcıa-Martınez , Alexandre Helle , Francisco Casacuberta , Manuel Herranz

Subword units are an effective way to alleviate the open vocabulary problems in neural machine translation (NMT). While sentences are usually converted into unique subword sequences, subword segmentation is potentially ambiguous and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Taku Kudo

We present Neural Machine Translation (NMT) training using document-level metrics with batch-level documents. Previous sequence-objective approaches to NMT training focus exclusively on sentence-level metrics like sentence BLEU which do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Danielle Saunders , Felix Stahlberg , Bill Byrne

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT) the usage of subwords and characters as source and target units offers a simple and flexible solution for translation of rare and unseen words. However, selecting the optimal subword segmentation involves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Tejas Srinivasan , Ramon Sanabria , Florian Metze

In recent years, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has achieved notable results in various translation tasks. However, the word-by-word generation manner determined by the autoregressive mechanism leads to high translation latency of the NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Chenze Shao , Yang Feng , Jinchao Zhang , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Semantic segmentation of motion capture sequences plays a key part in many data-driven motion synthesis frameworks. It is a preprocessing step in which long recordings of motion capture sequences are partitioned into smaller segments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Noshaba Cheema , Somayeh Hosseini , Janis Sprenger , Erik Herrmann , Han Du , Klaus Fischer , Philipp Slusallek

Differently from the traditional statistical MT that decomposes the translation task into distinct separately learned components, neural machine translation uses a single neural network to model the entire translation process. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Elena Voita , Rico Sennrich , Ivan Titov

Data sparsity is one of the main challenges posed by code-switching (CS), which is further exacerbated in the case of morphologically rich languages. For the task of machine translation (MT), morphological segmentation has proven successful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Marwa Gaser , Manuel Mager , Injy Hamed , Nizar Habash , Slim Abdennadher , Ngoc Thang Vu

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 models with minimal feature engineering have achieved competitive performance against traditional methods for the task of Chinese word segmentation. However, both training and working procedures of the current neural models are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Deng Cai , Hai Zhao , Zhisong Zhang , Yuan Xin , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang

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

Variational Neural Machine Translation (VNMT) is an attractive framework for modeling the generation of target translations, conditioned not only on the source sentence but also on some latent random variables. The latent variable modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Hendra Setiawan , Matthias Sperber , Udhay Nallasamy , Matthias Paulik

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) aims to translate multiple languages with a single model and has been proved successful thanks to effective knowledge transfer among different languages with shared parameters. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Qian Wang , Jiajun Zhang