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Neural networks have demonstrated significant advancements in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) compared to conventional phrase-based approaches. However, Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) in extremely low-resource settings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Vageesh Saxena , Sharid Loáiciga , Nils Rethmeier

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in handling multilingual machine translation (MMT). In this paper, we systematically investigate the advantages and challenges of LLMs for MMT by answering two questions:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Wenhao Zhu , Hongyi Liu , Qingxiu Dong , Jingjing Xu , Shujian Huang , Lingpeng Kong , Jiajun Chen , Lei Li

Multi-source translation is an approach to exploit multiple inputs (e.g. in two different languages) to increase translation accuracy. In this paper, we examine approaches for multi-source neural machine translation (NMT) using an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yuta Nishimura , Katsuhito Sudoh , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

While there are more than 7000 languages in the world, most translation research efforts have targeted a few high-resource languages. Commercial translation systems support only one hundred languages or fewer, and do not make these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Thamme Gowda , Zhao Zhang , Chris A Mattmann , Jonathan May

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved great success in Speech-to-Text Translation (S2TT) tasks. However, current research is constrained by two key challenges: language coverage and efficiency. Most of the popular S2TT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yexing Du , Kaiyuan Liu , Youcheng Pan , Bo Yang , Keqi Deng , Xie Chen , Yang Xiang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin , YaoWei Wang

Neural chat translation aims to translate bilingual conversational text, which has a broad application in international exchanges and cooperation. Despite the impressive performance of sentence-level and context-aware Neural Machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

While neural machine translation (NMT) is making good progress in the past two years, tens of millions of bilingual sentence pairs are needed for its training. However, human labeling is very costly. To tackle this training data bottleneck,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Yingce Xia , Di He , Tao Qin , Liwei Wang , Nenghai Yu , Tie-Yan Liu , Wei-Ying Ma

While achieving state-of-the-art results in multiple tasks and languages, translation-based cross-lingual transfer is often overlooked in favour of massively multilingual pre-trained encoders. Arguably, this is due to its main limitations:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Edoardo Maria Ponti , Julia Kreutzer , Ivan Vulić , Siva Reddy

Lexically constrained neural machine translation (NMT), which controls the generation of NMT models with pre-specified constraints, is important in many practical scenarios. Due to the representation gap between discrete constraints and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shuo Wang , Zhixing Tan , Yang Liu

In Multimodal Neural Machine Translation (MNMT), a neural model generates a translated sentence that describes an image, given the image itself and one source descriptions in English. This is considered as the multimodal image caption…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont , Omar Seddati

Document-level neural machine translation (DocNMT) achieves coherent translations by incorporating cross-sentence context. However, for most language pairs there's a shortage of parallel documents, although parallel sentences are readily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Biao Zhang , Ankur Bapna , Melvin Johnson , Ali Dabirmoghaddam , Naveen Arivazhagan , Orhan Firat

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit significant disparities in performance across languages, primarily benefiting high-resource languages while marginalizing underrepresented ones. Continual Pretraining (CPT) has emerged as a promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zihao Li , Shaoxiong Ji , Hengyu Luo , Jörg Tiedemann

Neural machine translation (NMT) models learn representations containing substantial linguistic information. However, it is not clear if such information is fully distributed or if some of it can be attributed to individual neurons. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Anthony Bau , Yonatan Belinkov , Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , James Glass

The scarcity of parallel data is a major obstacle for training high-quality machine translation systems for low-resource languages. Fortunately, some low-resource languages are linguistically related or similar to high-resource languages;…

Scaling multilingual representation learning beyond the hundred most frequent languages is challenging, in particular to cover the long tail of low-resource languages. A promising approach has been to train one-for-all multilingual models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Kevin Heffernan , Onur Çelebi , Holger Schwenk

The use of subword embedding has proved to be a major innovation in Neural Machine Translation (NMT). It helps NMT to learn better context vectors for Low Resource Languages (LRLs) so as to predict the target words by better modelling the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Amit Kumar , Shantipriya Parida , Ajay Pratap , Anil Kumar Singh

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

Crosslingual transfer is crucial to contemporary language models' multilingual capabilities, but how it occurs is not well understood. We ask what happens to a monolingual language model when it begins to be trained on a second language.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Catherine Arnett , Tyler A. Chang , James A. Michaelov , Benjamin K. Bergen

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

We propose a process for investigating the extent to which sentence representations arising from neural machine translation (NMT) systems encode distinct semantic phenomena. We use these representations as features to train a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Adam Poliak , Yonatan Belinkov , James Glass , Benjamin Van Durme