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Neural machine translation (NMT) heavily relies on an attention network to produce a context vector for each target word prediction. In practice, we find that context vectors for different target words are quite similar to one another and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Biao Zhang , Deyi Xiong , Jinsong Su

We introduce our efforts towards building a universal neural machine translation (NMT) system capable of translating between any language pair. We set a milestone towards this goal by building a single massively multilingual NMT model…

Recent advances in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) show that adding syntactic information to NMT systems can improve the quality of their translations. Most existing work utilizes some specific types of linguistically-inspired tree…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Xinyi Wang , Hieu Pham , Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) can be improved by including document-level contextual information. For this purpose, we propose a hierarchical attention model to capture the context in a structured and dynamic manner. The model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Lesly Miculicich , Dhananjay Ram , Nikolaos Pappas , James Henderson

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to improve neural machine translation (NMT) with additional visual information, but most existing MMT methods require paired input of source sentence and image, which makes them suffer from shortage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Qingkai Fang , Yang Feng

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

Most existing machine translation systems operate at the level of words, relying on explicit segmentation to extract tokens. We introduce a neural machine translation (NMT) model that maps a source character sequence to a target character…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Jason Lee , Kyunghyun Cho , Thomas Hofmann

Improving neural machine translation (NMT) systems with prompting has achieved significant progress in recent years. In this work, we focus on how to integrate multi-knowledge, multiple types of knowledge, into NMT models to enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Ke Wang , Jun Xie , Yuqi Zhang , Yu Zhao

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) can be used to generate fluent output. As such, language models have been investigated for incorporation with NMT. In prior investigations, two models have been used: a translation model and a language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Michiki Kurosawa , Mamoru Komachi

Neural machine translation (NMT) models generally adopt an encoder-decoder architecture for modeling the entire translation process. The encoder summarizes the representation of input sentence from scratch, which is potentially a problem if…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Xinwei Geng , Longyue Wang , Xing Wang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu , Zhaopeng Tu

Prior work has proved that Translation memory (TM) can boost the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT). In contrast to existing work that uses bilingual corpus as TM and employs source-side similarity search for memory retrieval,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Deng Cai , Yan Wang , Huayang Li , Wai Lam , Lemao Liu

Machine translation (MT) is an important sub-field of natural language processing that aims to translate natural languages using computers. In recent years, end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved great success and has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhixing Tan , Shuo Wang , Zonghan Yang , Gang Chen , Xuancheng Huang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

The dominant neural machine translation models are based on the encoder-decoder structure, and many of them rely on an unconstrained receptive field over source and target sequences. In this paper we study a new architecture that breaks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-17 José A. R. Fonollosa , Noe Casas , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Machine transliteration is the process of automatically transforming the script of a word from a source language to a target language, while preserving pronunciation. Sequence to sequence learning has recently emerged as a new paradigm in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Amir H. Jadidinejad

Most existing Neural Machine Translation models use groups of characters or whole words as their unit of input and output. We propose a model with a hierarchical char2word encoder, that takes individual characters both as input and output.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Alexander Rosenberg Johansen , Jonas Meinertz Hansen , Elias Khazen Obeid , Casper Kaae Sønderby , Ole Winther

We propose to achieve explainable neural machine translation (NMT) by changing the output representation to explain itself. We present a novel approach to NMT which generates the target sentence by monotonically walking through the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Felix Stahlberg , Danielle Saunders , Bill Byrne

In the past few years, attention mechanisms have become an indispensable component of end-to-end neural machine translation models. However, previous attention models always refer to some source words when predicting a target word, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Junhui Li , Muhua Zhu

Lexically constrained neural machine translation (NMT), which controls the generation of NMT models with pre-specified constraints, is important in many practical scenarios. Due to the representation gap between discrete constraints and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shuo Wang , Zhixing Tan , Yang Liu

Document-level context for neural machine translation (NMT) is crucial to improve the translation consistency and cohesion, the translation of ambiguous inputs, as well as several other linguistic phenomena. Many works have been published…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Christian Herold , Hermann Ney

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is the task of translating a text from one language to another with the use of a trained neural network. Several existing works aim at incorporating external information into NMT models to improve or control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Charles Brazier , Jean-Luc Rouas