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We introduce GrammaMT, a grammatically-aware prompting approach for machine translation that uses Interlinear Glossed Text (IGT), a common form of linguistic description providing morphological and lexical annotations for source sentences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rita Ramos , Everlyn Asiko Chimoto , Maartje ter Hoeve , Natalie Schluter

Humans use natural language to compose common concepts from their environment into plausible, day-to-day scene descriptions. However, such generative commonsense reasoning (GCSR) skills are lacking in state-of-the-art text generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 PeiFeng Wang , Jonathan Zamora , Junfeng Liu , Filip Ilievski , Muhao Chen , Xiang Ren

The motivation of our research is to explore the possibilities of automatic sound-to-image (S2I) translation for enabling a human receiver to visually infer the occurrence of sound related events. We expect the computer to 'imagine' the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Leonardo A. Fanzeres , Climent Nadeu

In this paper we explore the bi-directional mapping between images and their sentence-based descriptions. We propose learning this mapping using a recurrent neural network. Unlike previous approaches that map both sentences and images to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Xinlei Chen , C. Lawrence Zitnick

We present a novel approach to automatic image colorization by imitating the imagination process of human experts. Our imagination module is designed to generate color images that are context-correlated with black-and-white photos. Given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Chenyang Lei , Yue Wu , Qifeng Chen

We show state-of-the-art word representation learning methods maximize an objective function that is a lower bound on the mutual information between different parts of a word sequence (i.e., a sentence). Our formulation provides an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Lingpeng Kong , Cyprien de Masson d'Autume , Wang Ling , Lei Yu , Zihang Dai , Dani Yogatama

We present a universal framework to model contextualized sentence representations with visual awareness that is motivated to overcome the shortcomings of the multimodal parallel data with manual annotations. For each sentence, we first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhuosheng Zhang , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Hai Zhao

Text attribute transfer aims to automatically rewrite sentences such that they possess certain linguistic attributes, while simultaneously preserving their semantic content. This task remains challenging due to a lack of supervised parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Zhijing Jin , Di Jin , Jonas Mueller , Nicholas Matthews , Enrico Santus

We propose a novel model for Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Different from the conventional method, our model can predict the future text length and words at each decoding time step so that the generation can be helped with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Bingzhen Wei , Junyang Lin

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) has demonstrated the significant help of visual information in machine translation. However, existing MMT methods face challenges in leveraging the modality gap by enforcing rigid visual-linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Jiafeng Xiong , Yuting Zhao

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) simultaneously takes the source sentence and a relevant image as input for translation. Since there is no paired image available for the input sentence in most cases, recent studies suggest utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Wenyu Guo , Qingkai Fang , Dong Yu , Yang Feng

Previous work on multimodal machine translation has shown that visual information is only needed in very specific cases, for example in the presence of ambiguous words where the textual context is not sufficient. As a consequence, models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Julia Ive , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

While most machine translation systems to date are trained on large parallel corpora, humans learn language in a different way: by being grounded in an environment and interacting with other humans. In this work, we propose a communication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Jason Lee , Kyunghyun Cho , Jason Weston , Douwe Kiela

Machine translation between many languages at once is highly challenging, since training with ground truth requires supervision between all language pairs, which is difficult to obtain. Our key insight is that, while languages may vary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Dídac Surís , Dave Epstein , Carl Vondrick

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) generates target words sequentially in the way of predicting the next word conditioned on the context words. At training time, it predicts with the ground truth words as context while at inference it has to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Wen Zhang , Yang Feng , Fandong Meng , Di You , Qun Liu

Leveraging the visual modality effectively for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) remains an open problem in computational linguistics. Recently, Caglayan et al. posit that the observed gains are limited mainly due to the very simple, short,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Vikas Raunak , Sang Keun Choe , Quanyang Lu , Yi Xu , Florian Metze

Imagination is the critical point in developing of realistic artificial intelligence (AI) systems. One way to approach imagination would be simulation of its properties and operations. We developed two models: AI-Brain Network Hierarchy of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vadim Astakhov , Tamara Astakhova , Brian Sanders

Current work on multimodal machine translation (MMT) has suggested that the visual modality is either unnecessary or only marginally beneficial. We posit that this is a consequence of the very simple, short and repetitive sentences used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Ozan Caglayan , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia , Loïc Barrault

While many BERT-based cross-modal pre-trained models produce excellent results on downstream understanding tasks like image-text retrieval and VQA, they cannot be applied to generation tasks directly. In this paper, we propose XGPT, a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Qiaolin Xia , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Dongdong Zhang , Lei Ji , Zhifang Sui , Edward Cui , Taroon Bharti , Xin Liu , Ming Zhou

We present a deep generative model of bilingual sentence pairs for machine translation. The model generates source and target sentences jointly from a shared latent representation and is parameterised by neural networks. We perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Bryan Eikema , Wilker Aziz