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We present Adjacent Possible Exploration (APE), a selective fine-tuning method for adapting large language models that systematically explores parameter modifications while maintaining model stability. Inspired by evolutionary optimization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Javier Marín

Users of machine translation (MT) may want to ensure the use of specific lexical terminologies. While there exist techniques for incorporating terminology constraints during inference for MT, current APE approaches cannot ensure that they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 David Wan , Chris Kedzie , Faisal Ladhak , Marine Carpuat , Kathleen McKeown

This paper describes Netmarble's submission to WMT21 Automatic Post-Editing (APE) Shared Task for the English-German language pair. First, we propose a Curriculum Training Strategy in training stages. Facebook Fair's WMT19 news translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Shinhyeok Oh , Sion Jang , Hu Xu , Shounan An , Insoo Oh

Large Language Models (LLM's) have demonstrated considerable success in various Natural Language Processing tasks, but they have yet to attain state-of-the-art performance in Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Nevertheless, their significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Sai Koneru , Miriam Exel , Matthias Huck , Jan Niehues

Neural machine translation has meant a revolution of the field. Nevertheless, post-editing the outputs of the system is mandatory for tasks requiring high translation quality. Post-editing offers a unique opportunity for improving neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Álvaro Peris , Luis Cebrián , Francisco Casacuberta

Automatic post-editing (APE) aims to correct errors in machine-translated text, enhancing translation quality, while reducing the need for human intervention. Despite advances in neural machine translation (NMT), the development of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Diego Velazquez , Mikaela Grace , Konstantinos Karageorgos , Lawrence Carin , Aaron Schliem , Dimitrios Zaikis , Roger Wechsler

Training models for the automatic correction of machine-translated text usually relies on data consisting of (source, MT, human post- edit) triplets providing, for each source sentence, examples of translation errors with the corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi , Rajen Chatterjee , Nicola Bertoldi

Neural machine translation systems require large amounts of training data and resources. Even with this, the quality of the translations may be insufficient for some users or domains. In such cases, the output of the system must be revised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Álvaro Peris , Francisco Casacuberta

Shortage of available training data is holding back progress in the area of automated error detection. This paper investigates two alternative methods for artificially generating writing errors, in order to create additional resources. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Marek Rei , Mariano Felice , Zheng Yuan , Ted Briscoe

We introduce translation error correction (TEC), the task of automatically correcting human-generated translations. Imperfections in machine translations (MT) have long motivated systems for improving translations post-hoc with automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jessy Lin , Geza Kovacs , Aditya Shastry , Joern Wuebker , John DeNero

While large language models (LLMs) pre-trained on massive amounts of unpaired language data have reached the state-of-the-art in machine translation (MT) of general domain texts, post-editing (PE) is still required to correct errors and to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Nathaniel Berger , Stefan Riezler , Miriam Exel , Matthias Huck

Post-editing (PE) machine translation (MT) is widely used for dissemination because it leads to higher productivity than human translation from scratch (HT). In addition, PE translations are found to be of equal or better quality than HTs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Antonio Toral

A common use of machine translation in the industry is providing initial translation hypotheses, which are later supervised and post-edited by a human expert. During this revision process, new bilingual data are continuously generated.…

We present MLQE-PE, a new dataset for Machine Translation (MT) Quality Estimation (QE) and Automatic Post-Editing (APE). The dataset contains eleven language pairs, with human labels for up to 10,000 translations per language pair in the…

Recent neural sequence-to-sequence models with a copy mechanism have achieved remarkable progress in various text generation tasks. These models addressed out-of-vocabulary problems and facilitated the generation of rare words. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Sanghyuk Choi , Jeong-in Hwang , Hyungjong Noh , Yeonsoo Lee

In this work, we explore multiple neural architectures adapted for the task of automatic post-editing of machine translation output. We focus on neural end-to-end models that combine both inputs $mt$ (raw MT output) and $src$ (source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt , Roman Grundkiewicz

We propose a framework for computer-assisted text editing. It applies to translation post-editing and to paraphrasing. Our proposal relies on very simple interactions: a human editor modifies a sentence by marking tokens they would like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-30 David Grangier , Michael Auli

Word-level quality estimation (QE) methods aim to detect erroneous spans in machine translations, which can direct and facilitate human post-editing. While the accuracy of word-level QE systems has been assessed extensively, their usability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gabriele Sarti , Vilém Zouhar , Grzegorz Chrupała , Ana Guerberof-Arenas , Malvina Nissim , Arianna Bisazza

This paper describes the Microsoft and University of Edinburgh submission to the Automatic Post-editing shared task at WMT2018. Based on training data and systems from the WMT2017 shared task, we re-implement our own models from the last…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt , Roman Grundkiewicz

The paper presents two approaches submitted to the WMT 2025 Automated Translation Quality Evaluation Systems Task 3 - Quality Estimation (QE)-informed Segment-level Error Correction. While jointly training QE systems with Automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Govardhan Padmanabhan