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Neural machine translation (NMT) often makes mistakes in translating low-frequency content words that are essential to understanding the meaning of the sentence. We propose a method to alleviate this problem by augmenting NMT systems with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Philip Arthur , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

State-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) systems are data-hungry and perform poorly on new domains with no supervised data. As data collection is expensive and infeasible in many cases, domain adaptation methods are needed. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Di Jin , Zhijing Jin , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Peter Szolovits

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

We present a simple and effective pretraining strategy -- bidirectional training (BiT) for neural machine translation. Specifically, we bidirectionally update the model parameters at the early stage and then tune the model normally. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Liang Ding , Di Wu , Dacheng Tao

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) trains a single NMT model that supports translation between multiple languages, rather than training separate models for different languages. Learning a single model can enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Fahimeh Saleh , Wray Buntine , Gholamreza Haffari , Lan Du

We aim to better exploit the limited amounts of parallel text available in low-resource settings by introducing a differentiable reconstruction loss for neural machine translation (NMT). This loss compares original inputs to reconstructed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Xing Niu , Weijia Xu , Marine Carpuat

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) is usually done via sequence-level knowledge distillation (Seq-KD) from a full-sentence neural machine translation (NMT) model. However, there is still a significant performance gap between NMT and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Hexuan Deng , Liang Ding , Xuebo Liu , Meishan Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Min Zhang

As neural machine translation (NMT) is not easily amenable to explicit correction of errors, incorporating pre-specified translations into NMT is widely regarded as a non-trivial challenge. In this paper, we propose and explore three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Tao Wang , Shaohui Kuang , Deyi Xiong , António Branco

While synthetic bilingual corpora have demonstrated their effectiveness in low-resource neural machine translation (NMT), adding more synthetic data often deteriorates translation performance. In this work, we propose alternated training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Rui Jiao , Zonghan Yang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

The basic concept in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is to train a large Neural Network that maximizes the translation performance on a given parallel corpus. NMT is then using a simple left-to-right beam-search decoder to generate new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Markus Freitag , Yaser Al-Onaizan

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT), data augmentation methods such as back-translation have proven their effectiveness in improving translation performance. In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation approach for NMT, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Chang Jin , Shigui Qiu , Nini Xiao , Hao Jia

Improving neural machine translation (NMT) systems with prompting has achieved significant progress in recent years. In this work, we focus on how to integrate multi-knowledge, multiple types of knowledge, into NMT models to enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Ke Wang , Jun Xie , Yuqi Zhang , Yu Zhao

Scarcity of parallel sentence pairs is a major challenge for training high quality neural machine translation (NMT) models in bilingually low-resource scenarios, as NMT is data-hungry. Multi-task learning is an elegant approach to inject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Poorya Zaremoodi , Gholamreza Haffari

With the rapid advancement of Neural Machine Translation (NMT), enhancing translation efficiency and quality has become a focal point of research. Despite the commendable performance of general models such as the Transformer in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jingpu Yang , Zehua Han , Mengyu Xiang , Helin Wang , Yuxiao Huang , Miao Fang

Unsupervised neural machine translation(NMT) is associated with noise and errors in synthetic data when executing vanilla back-translations. Here, we explicitly exploits language model(LM) to drive construction of an unsupervised NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Wei Zhang , Youyuan Lin , Ruoran Ren , Xiaodong Wang , Zhenshuang Liang , Zhen Huang

Lack of specialized data makes building a multi-domain neural machine translation tool challenging. Although emerging literature dealing with low resource languages starts to show promising results, most state-of-the-art models used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Idriss Mghabbar , Pirashanth Ratnamogan

We propose multi-way, multilingual neural machine translation. The proposed approach enables a single neural translation model to translate between multiple languages, with a number of parameters that grows only linearly with the number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Orhan Firat , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

In recent years, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been shown to be more effective than phrase-based statistical methods, thus quickly becoming the state of the art in machine translation (MT). However, NMT systems are limited in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Surafel M. Lakew , Marcello Federico , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to improve translation quality by incorporating information from other modalities, such as vision. Previous MMT systems mainly focus on better access and use of visual information and tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yaoming Zhu , Zewei Sun , Shanbo Cheng , Luyang Huang , Liwei Wu , Mingxuan Wang

Recent studies have shown that reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective approach for improving the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) system. However, due to its instability, successfully RL training is challenging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Lijun Wu , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Jianhuang Lai , Tie-Yan Liu