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Although many context-aware neural machine translation models have been proposed to incorporate contexts in translation, most of those models are trained end-to-end on parallel documents aligned in sentence-level. Because only a few domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Amane Sugiyama , Naoki Yoshinaga

Context modeling is essential to generate coherent and consistent translation for Document-level Neural Machine Translations. The widely used method for document-level translation usually compresses the context information into a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Zhengxin Yang , Jinchao Zhang , Fandong Meng , Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng , Jie Zhou

Most neural machine translation systems still translate sentences in isolation. To make further progress, a promising line of research additionally considers the surrounding context in order to provide the model potentially missing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Sébastien Jean , Ankur Bapna , Orhan Firat

Document-level neural machine translation has yielded attractive improvements. However, majority of existing methods roughly use all context sentences in a fixed scope. They neglect the fact that different source sentences need different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Xiaomian Kang , Yang Zhao , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Current approaches to machine translation (MT) either translate sentences in isolation, disregarding the context they appear in, or model context at the level of the full document, without a notion of any internal structure the document may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Radina Dobreva , Jie Zhou , Rachel Bawden

Lexical ambiguity is a challenging and pervasive problem in machine translation (\mt). We introduce a simple and scalable approach to resolve translation ambiguity by incorporating a small amount of extra-sentential context in neural \mt.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Elijah Rippeth , Marine Carpuat , Kevin Duh , Matt Post

To understand and infer meaning in language, neural models have to learn complicated nuances. Discovering distinctive linguistic phenomena from data is not an easy task. For instance, lexical ambiguity is a fundamental feature of language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Marzieh Fadaee

Context-aware neural machine translation involves leveraging information beyond sentence-level context to resolve inter-sentential discourse dependencies and improve document-level translation quality, and has given rise to a number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Linghao Jin , Jacqueline He , Jonathan May , Xuezhe Ma

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

Despite the known limitations, most machine translation systems today still operate on the sentence-level. One reason for this is, that most parallel training data is only sentence-level aligned, without document-level meta information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Frithjof Petrick , Christian Herold , Pavel Petrushkov , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

Document-level machine translation conditions on surrounding sentences to produce coherent translations. There has been much recent work in this area with the introduction of custom model architectures and decoding algorithms. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Zhiyi Ma , Sergey Edunov , Michael Auli

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) aims to translate a continuous input text stream into another language with the lowest latency and highest quality possible. The translation thus has to start with an incomplete source text, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ozan Caglayan , Julia Ive , Veneta Haralampieva , Pranava Madhyastha , Loïc Barrault , Lucia Specia

Existing document-level neural machine translation (NMT) models have sufficiently explored different context settings to provide guidance for target generation. However, little attention is paid to inaugurate more diverse context for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Xu Zhang , Jian Yang , Haoyang Huang , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Jinlong Li , Furu Wei

This paper does not aim at introducing a novel model for document-level neural machine translation. Instead, we head back to the original Transformer model and hope to answer the following question: Is the capacity of current models strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zewei Sun , Mingxuan Wang , Hao Zhou , Chengqi Zhao , Shujian Huang , Jiajun Chen , Lei Li

One of the most popular methods for context-aware machine translation (MT) is to use separate encoders for the source sentence and context as multiple sources for one target sentence. Recent work has cast doubt on whether these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Matīss Rikters , Toshiaki Nakazawa

Despite the progress made in sentence-level NMT, current systems still fall short at achieving fluent, good quality translation for a full document. Recent works in context-aware NMT consider only a few previous sentences as context and may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sameen Maruf , André F. T. Martins , Gholamreza Haffari

Despite the success of neural machine translation (NMT), simultaneous neural machine translation (SNMT), the task of translating in real time before a full sentence has been observed, remains challenging due to the syntactic structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yun Chen , Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Xiao Chen , Qun Liu

We propose a neural machine translation architecture that models the surrounding text in addition to the source sentence. These models lead to better performance, both in terms of general translation quality and pronoun prediction, when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-19 Sebastien Jean , Stanislas Lauly , Orhan Firat , Kyunghyun Cho

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in sentence-level machine translation, but scaling to document-level translation remains challenging, particularly in modeling long-range dependencies and discourse phenomena…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Miguel Moura Ramos , Patrick Fernandes , Sweta Agrawal , André F. T. Martins

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