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One of the difficulties of neural machine translation (NMT) is the recall and appropriate translation of low-frequency words or phrases. In this paper, we propose a simple, fast, and effective method for recalling previously seen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jingyi Zhang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichro Sumita , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

Processing of multi-word expressions (MWEs) is a known problem for any natural language processing task. Even neural machine translation (NMT) struggles to overcome it. This paper presents results of experiments on investigating NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Matīss Rikters , Ondřej Bojar

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT), the decoder can capture the features of the entire prediction history with neural connections and representations. This means that partial hypotheses with different prefixes will be regarded differently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Zhisong Zhang , Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Hai Zhao

Neural machine translation (NMT) has progressed rapidly in the past few years, promising improvements and quality translations for different languages. Evaluation of this task is crucial to determine the quality of the translation. Overall,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Carinne Cherf , Yuval Pinter

Phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT) systems have previously been used for the task of grammatical error correction (GEC) to achieve state-of-the-art accuracy. The superiority of SMT systems comes from their ability to learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Shamil Chollampatt , Kaveh Taghipour , Hwee Tou Ng

We explore the transferability of a multilingual neural machine translation model to unseen languages when the transfer is grounded solely on the cross-lingual word embeddings. Our experimental results show that the translation knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Shifei Chen , Ali Basirat

Traditional neural machine translation is limited to the topmost encoder layer's context representation and cannot directly perceive the lower encoder layers. Existing solutions usually rely on the adjustment of network architecture, making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Qiang Wang , Changliang Li , Yue Zhang , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

In this paper, we explore the usage of Word Embedding semantic resources for Information Retrieval (IR) task. This embedding, produced by a shallow neural network, have been shown to catch semantic similarities between words (Mikolov et…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Jibril Frej , Jean-Pierre Chevallet , Didier Schwab

In this paper, we explore alternative ways to train a neural machine translation system in a multi-domain scenario. We investigate data concatenation (with fine tuning), model stacking (multi-level fine tuning), data selection and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Hassan Sajjad , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Yonatan Belinkov , Stephan Vogel

Building conversational speech recognition systems for new languages is constrained by the availability of utterances that capture user-device interactions. Data collection is both expensive and limited by the speed of manual transcription.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Surabhi Punjabi , Harish Arsikere , Sri Garimella

The quality of machine translation has increased remarkably over the past years, to the degree that it was found to be indistinguishable from professional human translation in a number of empirical investigations. We reassess Hassan et…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Samuel Läubli , Sheila Castilho , Graham Neubig , Rico Sennrich , Qinlan Shen , Antonio Toral

Checkpoint averaging is a simple and effective method to boost the performance of converged neural machine translation models. The calculation is cheap to perform and the fact that the translation improvement almost comes for free, makes it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yingbo Gao , Christian Herold , Zijian Yang , Hermann Ney

Accurate terminology translation is crucial for ensuring the practicality and reliability of neural machine translation (NMT) systems. To address this, lexically constrained NMT explores various methods to ensure pre-specified words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Gyubok Lee , Seongjun Yang , Edward Choi

We propose a novel approach to translating from a morphologically complex language. Unlike previous research, which has targeted word inflections and concatenations, we focus on the pairwise relationship between morphologically related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Preslav Nakov , Hwee Tou Ng

Federated learning is a decentralized approach for training models on distributed devices, by summarizing local changes and sending aggregate parameters from local models to the cloud rather than the data itself. In this research we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Joel Stremmel , Arjun Singh

Semantic Embedding Models (SEMs) have become a core component in information retrieval and natural language processing due to their ability to model semantic relevance. However, despite its growing applications in search engines, few…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Mengze Hong , Di Jiang , Zichang Guo , Chen Jason Zhang

We introduce a novel method for multilingual transfer that utilizes deep contextual embeddings, pretrained in an unsupervised fashion. While contextual embeddings have been shown to yield richer representations of meaning compared to their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Tal Schuster , Ori Ram , Regina Barzilay , Amir Globerson

In this paper, we present a new kind of learning implementation to recognize the patterns using the concept of Mirroring Neural Network (MNN) which can extract information from distinct sensory input patterns and perform pattern recognition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-16 Dasika Ratna Deepthi , K. Eswaran

In machine translation (MT) that involves translating between two languages with significant differences in word order, determining the correct word order of translated words is a major challenge. The dependency parse tree of a source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Christian Hadiwinoto , Hwee Tou Ng

Learning vector representation for words is an important research field which may benefit many natural language processing tasks. Two limitations exist in nearly all available models, which are the bias caused by the context definition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Xuefeng Yang , Kezhi Mao