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Machine Translation (MT) tools are widely used today, often in contexts where professional translators are not present. Despite progress in MT technology, a gap persists between system development and real-world usage, particularly for…

Machine translation (MT) encompasses a variety of methodologies aimed at enhancing the accuracy of translations. In contrast, the process of human-generated translation relies on a wide range of translation techniques, which are crucial for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Fan Zhou , Vincent Vandeghinste

Standard neural machine translation (NMT) is on the assumption that the document-level context is independent. Most existing document-level NMT approaches are satisfied with a smattering sense of global document-level information, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shu Jiang , Rui Wang , Zuchao Li , Masao Utiyama , Kehai Chen , Eiichiro Sumita , Hai Zhao , Bao-liang Lu

In this paper we provide the largest published comparison of translation quality for phrase-based SMT and neural machine translation across 30 translation directions. For ten directions we also include hierarchical phrase-based MT.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt , Tomasz Dwojak , Hieu Hoang

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

Machine Translation (MT) has greatly advanced over the years due to the developments in deep neural networks. However, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and ChatGPT is introducing a new phase in the MT domain. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chenyang Lyu , Zefeng Du , Jitao Xu , Yitao Duan , Minghao Wu , Teresa Lynn , Alham Fikri Aji , Derek F. Wong , Siyou Liu , Longyue Wang

Recently, the development of neural machine translation (NMT) has significantly improved the translation quality of automatic machine translation. While most sentences are more accurate and fluent than translations by statistical machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Jan Niehues , Eunah Cho , Thanh-Le Ha , Alex Waibel

Multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) enables training a single model that supports translation from multiple source languages into multiple target languages. In this paper, we push the limits of multilingual NMT in terms of number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Roee Aharoni , Melvin Johnson , Orhan Firat

In this paper, we study a new learning paradigm for Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Instead of maximizing the likelihood of the human translation as in previous works, we minimize the distinction between human translation and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Lijun Wu , Yingce Xia , Li Zhao , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Jianhuang Lai , Tie-Yan Liu

Previous studies have shown that neural machine translation (NMT) models can benefit from explicitly modeling translated (Past) and untranslated (Future) to groups of translated and untranslated contents through parts-to-wholes assignment.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Zaixiang Zheng , Shujian Huang , Zhaopeng Tu , Xin-Yu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved notable success in recent times, however it is also widely recognized that this approach has limitations with handling infrequent words and word pairs. This paper presents a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Yang Feng , Shiyue Zhang , Andi Zhang , Dong Wang , Andrew Abel

The growing popularity of neural machine translation (NMT) and LLMs represented by ChatGPT underscores the need for a deeper understanding of their distinct characteristics and relationships. Such understanding is crucial for language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zhaokun Jiang , Qianxi Lv , Ziyin Zhang , Lei Lei

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, with the potential to overcome many of the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Unfortunately, NMT systems are known to…

Within the field of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), the neural approach (NMT) has recently emerged as the first technology able to challenge the long-standing dominance of phrase-based approaches (PBMT). In particular, at the IWSLT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Luisa Bentivogli , Arianna Bisazza , Mauro Cettolo , Marcello Federico

Neural machine translation (NMT) is a deep learning based approach for machine translation, which yields the state-of-the-art translation performance in scenarios where large-scale parallel corpora are available. Although the high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Chenhui Chu , Rui Wang

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models generally perform translation using a fixed-size lexical vocabulary, which is an important bottleneck on their generalization capability and overall translation quality. The standard approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Duygu Ataman , Orhan Firat , Mattia A. Di Gangi , Marcello Federico , Alexandra Birch

Direct neural machine translation (direct NMT) is a type of NMT system that translates text between two non-English languages. Direct NMT systems often face limitations due to the scarcity of parallel data between non-English language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Isidora Chara Tourni , Subhajit Naskar

Context-aware neural machine translation (NMT) is a promising direction to improve the translation quality by making use of the additional context, e.g., document-level translation, or having meta-information. Although there exist various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jingjing Huo , Christian Herold , Yingbo Gao , Leonard Dahlmann , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

Machine translation systems are conventionally trained on textual resources that do not model phenomena that occur in spoken language. While the evaluation of neural machine translation systems on textual inputs is actively researched in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Nicholas Ruiz , Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Nicola Bertoldi , Marcello Federico

Neural machine translation (NMT) is often criticized for failures that happen without awareness. The lack of competency awareness makes NMT untrustworthy. This is in sharp contrast to human translators who give feedback or conduct further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Pei Zhang , Baosong Yang , Haoran Wei , Dayiheng Liu , Kai Fan , Luo Si , Jun Xie