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While recent neural machine translation approaches have delivered state-of-the-art performance for resource-rich language pairs, they suffer from the data scarcity problem for resource-scarce language pairs. Although this problem can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Yong Cheng , Yang Liu , Qian Yang , Maosong Sun , Wei Xu

Previous studies on the domain adaptation for neural machine translation (NMT) mainly focus on the one-pass transferring out-of-domain translation knowledge to in-domain NMT model. In this paper, we argue that such a strategy fails to fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jiali Zeng , Yang Liu , Jinsong Su , Yubin Ge , Yaojie Lu , Yongjing Yin , Jiebo Luo

Embedding matrices are key components in neural natural language processing (NLP) models that are responsible to provide numerical representations of input tokens.\footnote{In this paper words and subwords are referred to as \textit{tokens}…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Krtin Kumar , Peyman Passban , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Yiu Sing Lau , Qun Liu

We present IMTLab, an open-source end-to-end interactive machine translation (IMT) system platform that enables researchers to quickly build IMT systems with state-of-the-art models, perform an end-to-end evaluation, and diagnose the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Xu Huang , Zhirui Zhang , Ruize Gao , Yichao Du , Lemao Liu , Gouping Huang , Shuming Shi , Jiajun Chen , Shujian Huang

The recently proposed massively multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) system has been shown to be capable of translating over 100 languages to and from English within a single model. Its improved translation performance on low…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Aditya Siddhant , Melvin Johnson , Henry Tsai , Naveen Arivazhagan , Jason Riesa , Ankur Bapna , Orhan Firat , Karthik Raman

Translate-test is a popular technique to improve the performance of multilingual language models. This approach works by translating the input into English using an external machine translation system, and running inference over the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Julen Etxaniz , Gorka Azkune , Aitor Soroa , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Mikel Artetxe

Common intermediate language representation in neural machine translation can be used to extend bilingual to multilingual systems by incremental training. In this paper, we propose a new architecture based on introducing an interlingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-jussà , José A. R. Fonollosa

In this paper, we focus on the domain-specific translation with low resources, where in-domain parallel corpora are scarce or nonexistent. One common and effective strategy for this case is exploiting in-domain monolingual data with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Hao-Ran Wei , Zhirui Zhang , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo

Machine Translation (MT) is one of the most prominent tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) which involves the automatic conversion of texts from one natural language to another while preserving its meaning and fluency. Although the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kavit Gangar , Hardik Ruparel , Shreyas Lele

In recent years, the growing interest in Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced prompt engineering, transitioning from manual design to model-based optimization. Prompts for LLMs generally comprise two components: the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Qinhao Zhou , Xiang Xiang , Kun He , John E. Hopcroft

Machine translation (MT) plays an important role in benefiting linguists, sociologists, computer scientists, etc. by processing natural language to translate it into some other natural language. And this demand has grown exponentially over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Ankush Garg , Mayank Agarwal

Back Translation (BT) is widely used in the field of machine translation, as it has been proved effective for enhancing translation quality. However, BT mainly improves the translation of inputs that share a similar style (to be more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Daimeng Wei , Zhanglin Wu , Hengchao Shang , Zongyao Li , Minghan Wang , Jiaxin Guo , Xiaoyu Chen , Zhengzhe Yu , Hao Yang

Automatic dubbing (AD) is among the machine translation (MT) use cases where translations should match a given length to allow for synchronicity between source and target speech. For neural MT, generating translations of length close to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Surafel M. Lakew , Yogesh Virkar , Prashant Mathur , Marcello Federico

In neural machine translation (NMT), monolingual data in the target language are usually exploited through a method so-called "back-translation" to synthesize additional training parallel data. The synthetic data have been shown helpful to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Benjamin Marie , Atsushi Fujita

This paper demonstrates that multilingual pretraining and multilingual fine-tuning are both critical for facilitating cross-lingual transfer in zero-shot translation, where the neural machine translation (NMT) model is tested on source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Guanhua Chen , Shuming Ma , Yun Chen , Dongdong Zhang , Jia Pan , Wenping Wang , Furu Wei

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

Neural chat translation (NCT) aims to translate a cross-lingual chat between speakers of different languages. Existing context-aware NMT models cannot achieve satisfactory performances due to the following inherent problems: 1) limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Chulun Zhou , Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Jinan Xu , Hongji Wang , Min Zhang , Jinsong Su

In this paper, we address the task of improving pair-wise machine translation for specific low resource Indian languages. Multilingual NMT models have demonstrated a reasonable amount of effectiveness on resource-poor languages. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Kartheek Akella , Sai Himal Allu , Sridhar Suresh Ragupathi , Aman Singhal , Zeeshan Khan , Vinay P. Namboodiri , C V Jawahar

Data selection has proven its merit for improving Neural Machine Translation (NMT), when applied to authentic data. But the benefit of using synthetic data in NMT training, produced by the popular back-translation technique, raises the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Alberto Poncelas , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Andy Way

In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) aims to translate texts within images from one language to another. Previous research on IIMT was primarily conducted on simplified scenarios such as images of one-line text with black font in white…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yanzhi Tian , Zeming Liu , Zhengyang Liu , Yuhang Guo