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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

Machine translation systems achieve near human-level performance on some languages, yet their effectiveness strongly relies on the availability of large amounts of parallel sentences, which hinders their applicability to the majority of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Guillaume Lample , Myle Ott , Alexis Conneau , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Many valid translations exist for a given sentence, yet machine translation (MT) is trained with a single reference translation, exacerbating data sparsity in low-resource settings. We introduce Simulated Multiple Reference Training (SMRT),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Huda Khayrallah , Brian Thompson , Matt Post , Philipp Koehn

This paper studies the practicality of the current state-of-the-art unsupervised methods in neural machine translation (NMT). In ten translation tasks with various data settings, we analyze the conditions under which the unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Yunsu Kim , Miguel Graça , Hermann Ney

Many language pairs are low resource, meaning the amount and/or quality of available parallel data is not sufficient to train a neural machine translation (NMT) model which can reach an acceptable standard of accuracy. Many works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Idris Abdulmumin , Bashir Shehu Galadanci , Abubakar Isa , Habeebah Adamu Kakudi , Ismaila Idris Sinan

While Active Learning (AL) techniques are explored in Neural Machine Translation (NMT), only a few works focus on tackling low annotation budgets where a limited number of sentences can get translated. Such situations are especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Sai Koneru , Danni Liu , Jan Niehues

This paper proposes a novel multilingual multistage fine-tuning approach for low-resource neural machine translation (NMT), taking a challenging Japanese--Russian pair for benchmarking. Although there are many solutions for low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Aizhan Imankulova , Raj Dabre , Atsushi Fujita , Kenji Imamura

The advent of deep learning has led to a significant gain in machine translation. However, most of the studies required a large parallel dataset which is scarce and expensive to construct and even unavailable for some languages. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Viet H. Pham , Thang M. Pham , Giang Nguyen , Long Nguyen , Dien Dinh

Recently, the development of neural machine translation (NMT) has significantly improved the translation quality of automatic machine translation. While most sentences are more accurate and fluent than translations by statistical machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Jan Niehues , Eunah Cho , Thanh-Le Ha , Alex Waibel

No-resource languages - those with minimal or no digital representation - pose unique challenges for machine translation (MT). Unlike low-resource languages, which rely on limited but existent corpora, no-resource languages often have fewer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Madhavendra Thakur

It has been shown that the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) drops starkly in low-resource conditions, often requiring large amounts of auxiliary data to achieve competitive results. An effective method of generating auxiliary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Lidia Kidane , Sachin Kumar , Yulia Tsvetkov

While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has made remarkable progress recently, it still suffers from the data scarcity problem for low-resource language pairs and domains. In this paper, we propose a method for zero-resource NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Yun Chen , Yang Liu , Yong Cheng , Victor O. K. Li

Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource local languages in Indonesia faces significant challenges, including the need for a representative benchmark and limited data availability. This work addresses these challenges by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Lucky Susanto , Ryandito Diandaru , Adila Krisnadhi , Ayu Purwarianti , Derry Wijaya

The quality of a Neural Machine Translation system depends substantially on the availability of sizable parallel corpora. For low-resource language pairs this is not the case, resulting in poor translation quality. Inspired by work in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Marzieh Fadaee , Arianna Bisazza , Christof Monz

Machine Translation has made impressive progress in recent years offering close to human-level performance on many languages, but studies have primarily focused on high-resource languages with broad online presence and resources. With the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Wan-Hua Her , Udo Kruschwitz

Without real bilingual corpus available, unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (NMT) typically requires pseudo parallel data generated with the back-translation method for the model training. However, due to weak supervision, the pseudo…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shuo Ren , Zhirui Zhang , Shujie Liu , Ming Zhou , Shuai Ma

Neural machine translation~(NMT) is ineffective for zero-resource languages. Recent works exploring the possibility of unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) with only monolingual data can achieve promising results. However, there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Mingxuan Wang , Hongxiao Bai , Hai Zhao , Lei Li

In this paper, we propose to extend the recently introduced model-agnostic meta-learning algorithm (MAML) for low-resource neural machine translation (NMT). We frame low-resource translation as a meta-learning problem, and we learn to adapt…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jiatao Gu , Yong Wang , Yun Chen , Kyunghyun Cho , Victor O. K. Li

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

With the recent developments in the field of Natural Language Processing, there has been a rise in the use of different architectures for Neural Machine Translation. Transformer architectures are used to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Aditya Mandke , Onkar Litake , Dipali Kadam