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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

Recognizing semantically similar sentences or paragraphs across languages is beneficial for many tasks, ranging from cross-lingual information retrieval and plagiarism detection to machine translation. Recently proposed methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Goran Glavaš , Marc Franco-Salvador , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Paolo Rosso

The task of Spell Correction(SC) in low-resource languages presents a significant challenge due to the availability of only a limited corpus of data and no annotated spelling correction datasets. To tackle these challenges a small-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Nishant Luitel , Nirajan Bekoju , Anand Kumar Sah , Subarna Shakya

Web-crawled data provides a good source of parallel corpora for training machine translation models. It is automatically obtained, but extremely noisy, and recent work shows that neural machine translation systems are more sensitive to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Boliang Zhang , Ajay Nagesh , Kevin Knight

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

In machine translation, we often try to collect resources to improve performance. However, most of the language pairs, such as Korean-Arabic and Korean-Vietnamese, do not have enough resources to train machine translation systems. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Gyu-Hyeon Choi , Jong-Hun Shin , Young-Kil Kim

We propose a novel model architecture and training algorithm to learn bilingual sentence embeddings from a combination of parallel and monolingual data. Our method connects autoencoding and neural machine translation to force the source and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Yunsu Kim , Hendrik Rosendahl , Nick Rossenbach , Jan Rosendahl , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

Despite the recent developments in the field of cross-modal retrieval, there has been less research focusing on low-resource languages due to the lack of manually annotated datasets. In this paper, we propose a noise-robust cross-lingual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Yabing Wang , Jianfeng Dong , Tianxiang Liang , Minsong Zhang , Rui Cai , Xun Wang

Although the parallel corpus has an irreplaceable role in machine translation, its scale and coverage is still beyond the actual needs. Non-parallel corpus resources on the web have an inestimable potential value in machine translation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Lijiang Chen

Parallel datasets are vital for performing and evaluating any kind of multilingual task. However, in the cases where one of the considered language pairs is a low-resource language, the existing top-down parallel data such as corpora are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kasun Wickramasinghe , Nisansa de Silva

In this paper, we propose a new universal machine translation approach focusing on languages with a limited amount of parallel data. Our proposed approach utilizes a transfer-learning approach to share lexical and sentence level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Jiatao Gu , Hany Hassan , Jacob Devlin , Victor O. K. Li

In this paper we propose a novel method of augmenting parallel text corpora which promises good quality and is also capable of producing many fold larger corpora than the seed corpus we start with. We do not need any additional monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Vibhuti Kumari , Narayana Murthy Kavi

Measuring the semantic similarity between two sentences (or Semantic Textual Similarity - STS) is fundamental in many NLP applications. Despite the remarkable results in supervised settings with adequate labeling, little attention has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Xin Tang , Shanbo Cheng , Loc Do , Zhiyu Min , Feng Ji , Heng Yu , Ji Zhang , Haiqin Chen

Text alignment and text quality are critical to the accuracy of Machine Translation (MT) systems, some NLP tools, and any other text processing tasks requiring bilingual data. This research proposes a language independent bi-sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Krzysztof Wołk

Recent studies have highlighted the potential of exploiting parallel corpora to enhance multilingual large language models, improving performance in both bilingual tasks, e.g., machine translation, and general-purpose tasks, e.g., text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Peiqin Lin , André F. T. Martins , Hinrich Schütze

This paper simulates a low-resource setting across 17 languages in order to evaluate embedding similarity, stability, and reliability under different conditions. The goal is to use corpus similarity measures before training to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Jonathan Dunn , Haipeng Li , Damian Sastre

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

In this paper, we explore a simple solution to "Multi-Source Neural Machine Translation" (MSNMT) which only relies on preprocessing a N-way multilingual corpus without modifying the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) architecture or training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Raj Dabre , Fabien Cromieres , Sadao Kurohashi

Parallel corpora play an important role in training machine translation (MT) models, particularly for low-resource languages where high-quality bilingual data is scarce. This review provides a comprehensive overview of available parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Rahul Raja , Arpita Vats

The importance of qualitative parallel data in machine translation has long been determined but it has always been very difficult to obtain such in sufficient quantity for the majority of world languages, mainly because of the associated…