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Multimodal machine translation involves drawing information from more than one modality, based on the assumption that the additional modalities will contain useful alternative views of the input data. The most prominent tasks in this area…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Umut Sulubacak , Ozan Caglayan , Stig-Arne Grönroos , Aku Rouhe , Desmond Elliott , Lucia Specia , Jörg Tiedemann

Recent image-to-image translation works have been transferred from supervised to unsupervised settings due to the expensive cost of capturing or labeling large amounts of paired data. However, current unsupervised methods using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Pan Zhang , Jianmin Bao , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Fang Wen

Achieving deep alignment between vision and language remains a central challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). These models often fail to fully leverage visual input, defaulting to strong language priors. Our approach first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Aarti Ghatkesar , Ganesh Venkatesh

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) that relies solely on massive monolingual corpora has achieved remarkable results in several translation tasks. However, in real-world scenarios, massive monolingual corpora do not exist for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Haipeng Sun , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Tiejun Zhao

Bilingual lexicon induction, translating words from the source language to the target language, is a long-standing natural language processing task. Recent endeavors prove that it is promising to employ images as pivot to learn the lexicon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Shizhe Chen , Qin Jin , Alexander Hauptmann

Language style transferring rephrases text with specific stylistic attributes while preserving the original attribute-independent content. One main challenge in learning a style transfer system is a lack of parallel data where the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Zhirui Zhang , Shuo Ren , Shujie Liu , Jianyong Wang , Peng Chen , Mu Li , Ming Zhou , Enhong Chen

Multimodal Language Analysis is a demanding area of research, since it is associated with two requirements: combining different modalities and capturing temporal information. During the last years, several works have been proposed in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Panagiotis Koromilas , Theodoros Giannakopoulos

Unsupervised machine translation, which utilizes unpaired monolingual corpora as training data, has achieved comparable performance against supervised machine translation. However, it still suffers from data-scarce domains. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Cheonbok Park , Yunwon Tae , Taehee Kim , Soyoung Yang , Mohammad Azam Khan , Eunjeong Park , Jaegul Choo

Despite the reported success of unsupervised machine translation (MT), the field has yet to examine the conditions under which these methods succeed, and where they fail. We conduct an extensive empirical evaluation of unsupervised MT using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Kelly Marchisio , Kevin Duh , Philipp Koehn

Existing unsupervised video-to-video translation methods fail to produce translated videos which are frame-wise realistic, semantic information preserving and video-level consistent. In this work, we propose UVIT, a novel unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Kangning Liu , Shuhang Gu , Andres Romero , Radu Timofte

A good evaluation framework should evaluate multimodal machine translation (MMT) models by measuring 1) their use of visual information to aid in the translation task and 2) their ability to translate complex sentences such as done for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Vipin Vijayan , Braeden Bowen , Scott Grigsby , Timothy Anderson , Jeremy Gwinnup

We propose a visual-linguistic representation learning approach within a self-supervised learning framework by introducing a new operation, loss, and data augmentation strategy. First, we generate diverse features for the image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Jaeyoo Park , Bohyung Han

Video-guided Multimodal Translation (VMT) has advanced significantly in recent years. However, most existing methods rely on locally aligned video segments paired one-to-one with subtitles, limiting their ability to capture global narrative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jian Chen , JinZe Lv , Zi Long , XiangHua Fu

This paper studies the practicality of the current state-of-the-art unsupervised methods in neural machine translation (NMT). In ten translation tasks with various data settings, we analyze the conditions under which the unsupervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Yunsu Kim , Miguel Graça , Hermann Ney

Machine translation has recently achieved impressive performance thanks to recent advances in deep learning and the availability of large-scale parallel corpora. There have been numerous attempts to extend these successes to low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Guillaume Lample , Alexis Conneau , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

We introduce a Multi-modal Neural Machine Translation model in which a doubly-attentive decoder naturally incorporates spatial visual features obtained using pre-trained convolutional neural networks, bridging the gap between image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Iacer Calixto , Qun Liu , Nick Campbell

Despite impressive progress in high-resource settings, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) still struggles in low-resource and out-of-domain scenarios, often failing to match the quality of phrase-based translation. We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Xing Niu , Michael Denkowski , Marine Carpuat

This paper studies zero-shot cross-lingual transfer of vision-language models. Specifically, we focus on multilingual text-to-video search and propose a Transformer-based model that learns contextualized multilingual multimodal embeddings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Po-Yao Huang , Mandela Patrick , Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig , Florian Metze , Alexander Hauptmann

Previous work on multimodal machine translation (MMT) has focused on the way of incorporating vision features into translation but little attention is on the quality of vision models. In this work, we investigate the impact of vision models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Bei Li , Chuanhao Lv , Zefan Zhou , Tao Zhou , Tong Xiao , Anxiang Ma , JingBo Zhu

We consider the problem of multilingual unsupervised machine translation, translating to and from languages that only have monolingual data by using auxiliary parallel language pairs. For this problem the standard procedure so far to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ahmet Üstün , Alexandre Bérard , Laurent Besacier , Matthias Gallé