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We consider the problem of learning general-purpose, paraphrastic sentence embeddings in the setting of Wieting et al. (2016b). We use neural machine translation to generate sentential paraphrases via back-translation of bilingual sentence…

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We present a deep generative model of bilingual sentence pairs for machine translation. The model generates source and target sentences jointly from a shared latent representation and is parameterised by neural networks. We perform…

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Monolingual data have been demonstrated to be helpful in improving translation quality of both statistical machine translation (SMT) systems and neural machine translation (NMT) systems, especially in resource-poor or domain adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Zhirui Zhang , Shujie Liu , Mu Li , Ming Zhou , Enhong Chen

An effective method to improve neural machine translation with monolingual data is to augment the parallel training corpus with back-translations of target language sentences. This work broadens the understanding of back-translation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Sergey Edunov , Myle Ott , Michael Auli , David Grangier

Grammatical error correction in English is a long studied problem with many existing systems and datasets. However, there has been only a limited research on error correction of other languages. In this paper, we present a new dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Jakub Náplava , Milan Straka

We investigate the potential of LLM-generated synthetic data for improving low-resource Machine Translation (MT). Focusing on seven diverse target languages, we construct a document-level synthetic corpus from English Europarl, and extend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ona de Gibert , Joseph Attieh , Teemu Vahtola , Mikko Aulamo , Zihao Li , Raúl Vázquez , Tiancheng Hu , Jörg Tiedemann

In Machine Translation, Large Language Models (LLMs) have generally underperformed compared to conventional encoder-decoder systems and thus see limited adoption. However, LLMs excel at modeling contextual information, making them a natural…

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Neural Machine Translation has achieved state-of-the-art performance for several language pairs using a combination of parallel and synthetic data. Synthetic data is often generated by back-translating sentences randomly sampled from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Marzieh Fadaee , Christof Monz

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

Automatic Post-Editing (APE) is the task of automatically identifying and correcting errors in the Machine Translation (MT) outputs. We propose a repair-filter-use methodology that uses an APE system to correct errors on the target side of…

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We explore the idea of automatically crafting a tuning dataset for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) that makes the hyper-parameters of the SMT system more robust with respect to some specific deficiencies of the parameter tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Preslav Nakov , Stephan Vogel

Self-training has proven effective for improving NMT performance by augmenting model training with synthetic parallel data. The common practice is to construct synthetic data based on a randomly sampled subset of large-scale monolingual…

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System combination is an important technique for combining the hypotheses of different machine translation systems to improve translation performance. Although early statistical approaches to system combination have been proven effective in…

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Neural machine translation systems have become state-of-the-art approaches for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) task. In this paper, we propose a copy-augmented architecture for the GEC task by copying the unchanged words from the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Wei Zhao , Liang Wang , Kewei Shen , Ruoyu Jia , Jingming Liu

Despite the rapid growth in model architecture, the scarcity of large parallel corpora remains the main bottleneck in Neural Machine Translation. Data augmentation is a technique that enhances the performance of data-hungry models by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Seokjin Oh , Su Ah Lee , Woohwan Jung

With the further development of informatization, more and more data is stored in the form of text. There are some loss of text during their generation and transmission. The paper aims to establish a language model based on the large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Ji Wen

Even with the latest developments in deep learning and large-scale language modeling, the task of machine translation (MT) of low-resource languages remains a challenge. Neural MT systems can be trained in an unsupervised way without any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ivana Kvapilíková , Ondřej Bojar

Training code-switched language models is difficult due to lack of data and complexity in the grammatical structure. Linguistic constraint theories have been used for decades to generate artificial code-switching sentences to cope with this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Genta Indra Winata , Andrea Madotto , Chien-Sheng Wu , Pascale Fung

We explore and improve the capabilities of LLMs to generate data for grammatical error correction (GEC). When merely producing parallel sentences, their patterns are too simplistic to be valuable as a corpus. To address this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jeiyoon Park , Chanjun Park , Heuiseok Lim

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models achieve their best performance when large sets of parallel data are used for training. Consequently, techniques for augmenting the training set have become popular recently. One of these methods is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Alberto Poncelas , Maja Popovic , Dimitar Shterionov , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Andy Way