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Neural Machine Translation (NMT) approaches employing monolingual data are showing steady improvements in resource rich conditions. However, evaluations using real-world low-resource languages still result in unsatisfactory performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Surafel M. Lakew , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

While synthetic bilingual corpora have demonstrated their effectiveness in low-resource neural machine translation (NMT), adding more synthetic data often deteriorates translation performance. In this work, we propose alternated training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Rui Jiao , Zonghan Yang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

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

Domain shift refers to the well known problem that a model trained in one source domain performs poorly when applied to a target domain with different statistics. {Domain Generalization} (DG) techniques attempt to alleviate this issue by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Da Li , Yongxin Yang , Yi-Zhe Song , Timothy M. Hospedales

Fine-tuning is widely used to tailor large language models for specific tasks such as neural machine translation (NMT). However, leveraging transfer learning is computationally expensive when fine-tuning large multilingual models with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Josh McGiff , Nikola S. Nikolov

We conduct an empirical study of neural machine translation (NMT) for truly low-resource languages, and propose a training curriculum fit for cases when both parallel training data and compute resource are lacking, reflecting the reality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Garry Kuwanto , Afra Feyza Akyürek , Isidora Chara Tourni , Siyang Li , Alexander Gregory Jones , Derry Wijaya

We focus on the problem of domain adaptation when the goal is shifting the model towards the target distribution, rather than learning domain invariant representations. It has been shown that under the following two assumptions: (a) access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Samira Abnar , Rianne van den Berg , Golnaz Ghiasi , Mostafa Dehghani , Nal Kalchbrenner , Hanie Sedghi

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in domain-specific machine translation (MT). However, one major issue is that LLMs pre-trained on general domain corpus might not generalize well to specific domains due to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiawei Zheng , Hanghai Hong , Feiyan Liu , Xiaoli Wang , Jingsong Su , Yonggui Liang , Shikai Wu

In data-rich domains such as vision, language, and speech, deep learning prevails to deliver high-performance task-specific models and can even learn general task-agnostic representations for efficient finetuning to downstream tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Pin-Yu Chen

Domain Adaptation is widely used in practical applications of neural machine translation, which aims to achieve good performance on both the general-domain and in-domain. However, the existing methods for domain adaptation usually suffer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng , Wanying Xie

In multilingual healthcare applications, the availability of domain-specific natural language processing(NLP) tools is limited, especially for low-resource languages. Although multilingual bidirectional encoder representations from…

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to generate synthetic data for training Neural Machine Translation systems. The proposed approach transforms a given parallel corpus between a written language and a target language to a parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Hany Hassan , Mostafa Elaraby , Ahmed Tawfik

Domain mismatch between training and testing can lead to significant degradation in performance in many machine learning scenarios. Unfortunately, this is not a rare situation for automatic speech recognition deployments in real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Wei-Ning Hsu , Yu Zhang , James Glass

Deep learning-based methods deliver state-of-the-art performance for solving inverse problems that arise in computational imaging. These methods can be broadly divided into two groups: (1) learn a network to map measurements to the signal…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Nebiyou Yismaw , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , M. Salman Asif

As an essential task for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, information retrieval (IR) from unstructured textual data based on natural language processing (NLP) is gaining increasing attention. Although various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zhe Zheng , Xin-Zheng Lu , Ke-Yin Chen , Yu-Cheng Zhou , Jia-Rui Lin

Data augmentation is an effective way to diversify corpora in machine translation, but previous methods may introduce semantic inconsistency between original and augmented data because of irreversible operations and random subword sampling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Jiashu Yao , Heyan Huang , Zeming Liu , Yuhang Guo

Recent advances in NLP are brought by a range of large-scale pretrained language models (PLMs). These PLMs have brought significant performance gains for a range of NLP tasks, circumventing the need to customize complex designs for specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Xu Guo , Han Yu

The goal of this paper is to use multi-task learning to efficiently scale slot filling models for natural language understanding to handle multiple target tasks or domains. The key to scalability is reducing the amount of training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Aaron Jaech , Larry Heck , Mari Ostendorf

End-to-end automatic speech recognition often degrades on domain-specific data due to scarce in-domain resources. We propose a synthetic-data-based domain adaptation framework with two contributions: (1) a large language model (LLM)-based…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Natsuo Yamashita , Koichi Nagatsuka , Hiroaki Kokubo , Kota Dohi , Tuan Vu Ho

Recent work on multilingual neural machine translation reported competitive performance with respect to bilingual models and surprisingly good performance even on (zeroshot) translation directions not observed at training time. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Surafel M. Lakew , Quintino F. Lotito , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi , Marcello Federico