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Zero-shot translation, directly translating between language pairs unseen in training, is a promising capability of multilingual neural machine translation (NMT). However, it usually suffers from capturing spurious correlations between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Weizhi Wang , Zhirui Zhang , Yichao Du , Boxing Chen , Jun Xie , Weihua Luo

The multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) model has a promising capability of zero-shot translation, where it could directly translate between language pairs unseen during training. For good transfer performance from supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Pengzhi Gao , Liwen Zhang , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

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

While multilingual neural machine translation has achieved great success, it suffers from the off-target issue, where the translation is in the wrong language. This problem is more pronounced on zero-shot translation tasks. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Liang Chen , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Furu Wei , Baobao Chang

The many-to-many multilingual neural machine translation can translate between language pairs unseen during training, i.e., zero-shot translation. Improving zero-shot translation requires the model to learn universal representations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng

In this paper, we proposed two strategies which can be applied to a multilingual neural machine translation system in order to better tackle zero-shot scenarios despite not having any parallel corpus. The experiments show that they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Thanh-Le Ha , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Multilingual neural machine translation has shown the capability of directly translating between language pairs unseen in training, i.e. zero-shot translation. Despite being conceptually attractive, it often suffers from low output quality.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Danni Liu , Jan Niehues , James Cross , Francisco Guzmán , Xian Li

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) has aroused widespread interest due to its efficiency. An exciting advantage of MNMT models is that they could also translate between unsupervised (zero-shot) language directions. Language tag…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Liwei Wu , Shanbo Cheng , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li

Multilingual machine translation addresses the task of translating between multiple source and target languages. We propose task-specific attention models, a simple but effective technique for improving the quality of sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Graeme Blackwood , Miguel Ballesteros , Todd Ward

Multilingual neural machine translation can translate unseen language pairs during training, i.e. zero-shot translation. However, the zero-shot translation is always unstable. Although prior works attributed the instability to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Zhi Qu , Taro Watanabe

The many-to-many multilingual neural machine translation can be regarded as the process of integrating semantic features from the source sentences and linguistic features from the target sentences. To enhance zero-shot translation, models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Mengyu Bu , Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng

Transfer learning between different language pairs has shown its effectiveness for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in low-resource scenario. However, existing transfer methods involving a common target language are far from success in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Baijun Ji , Zhirui Zhang , Xiangyu Duan , Min Zhang , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo

Large pre-trained language models have brought remarkable progress in NLP. Pre-training and Fine-tuning have given state-of-art performance across tasks in text processing. Data Augmentation techniques have also helped build state-of-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kshitij Gupta

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) learns to translate multiple language pairs with a single model, potentially improving both the accuracy and the memory-efficiency of deployed models. However, the heavy data imbalance between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Chunting Zhou , Daniel Levy , Xian Li , Marjan Ghazvininejad , Graham Neubig

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

The training paradigm for machine translation has gradually shifted, from learning neural machine translation (NMT) models with extensive parallel corpora to instruction finetuning on multilingual large language models (LLMs) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Pengzhi Gao , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Zero-shot neural machine translation is an attractive goal because of the high cost of obtaining data and building translation systems for new translation directions. However, previous papers have reported mixed success in zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Annette Rios , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich

Zero-shot translation aims to translate between language pairs not seen during training in Multilingual Machine Translation (MMT) and is largely considered an open problem. A common, albeit resource-consuming, solution is to add as many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-03 Di Wu , Shaomu Tan , Yan Meng , David Stap , Christof Monz

Transferring representations from large supervised tasks to downstream tasks has shown promising results in AI fields such as Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP). In parallel, the recent progress in Machine Translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Akiko Eriguchi , Melvin Johnson , Orhan Firat , Hideto Kazawa , Wolfgang Macherey

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have been effective on large bilingual datasets. However, the existing methods and techniques show that the model's performance is highly dependent on the number of examples in training data. For many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Nalin Kumar , Deepak Kumar , Subhankar Mishra