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Processing of multi-word expressions (MWEs) is a known problem for any natural language processing task. Even neural machine translation (NMT) struggles to overcome it. This paper presents results of experiments on investigating NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Matīss Rikters , Ondřej Bojar

A common scenario of Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) is that each translation task arrives in a sequential manner, and the training data of previous tasks is unavailable. In this scenario, the current methods suffer heavily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yang Zhao , Junnan Zhu , Lu Xiang , Jiajun Zhang , Yu Zhou , Feifei Zhai , Chengqing Zong

A rising interest in the modality extension of foundation language models warrants discussion on the most effective, and efficient, multimodal training approach. This work focuses on neural machine translation (NMT) and proposes a joint…

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

Advanced neural machine translation (NMT) models generally implement encoder and decoder as multiple layers, which allows systems to model complex functions and capture complicated linguistic structures. However, only the top layers of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Zi-Yi Dou , Zhaopeng Tu , Xing Wang , Shuming Shi , Tong Zhang

Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation (kNNMT) is a simple and effective method of augmenting neural machine translation (NMT) with a token-level nearest neighbor retrieval mechanism. The effectiveness of kNNMT directly depends on the quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jiahuan Li , Shanbo Cheng , Zewei Sun , Mingxuan Wang , Shujian Huang

In state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation (NMT), an attention mechanism is used during decoding to enhance the translation. At every step, the decoder uses this mechanism to focus on different parts of the source sentence to gather the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont

In neural machine translation (NMT), monolingual data in the target language are usually exploited through a method so-called "back-translation" to synthesize additional training parallel data. The synthetic data have been shown helpful to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Benjamin Marie , Atsushi Fujita

Existing multilingual machine translation approaches mainly focus on English-centric directions, while the non-English directions still lag behind. In this work, we aim to build a many-to-many translation system with an emphasis on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Xiao Pan , Mingxuan Wang , Liwei Wu , Lei Li

Neural translation models have proven to be effective in capturing sufficient information from a source sentence and generating a high-quality target sentence. However, it is not easy to get the best effect for bidirectional translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Parnia Bahar , Christopher Brix , Hermann Ney

Word alignment over parallel corpora has a wide variety of applications, including learning translation lexicons, cross-lingual transfer of language processing tools, and automatic evaluation or analysis of translation outputs. The great…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Zi-Yi Dou , Graham Neubig

Unsupervised neural machine translation(NMT) is associated with noise and errors in synthetic data when executing vanilla back-translations. Here, we explicitly exploits language model(LM) to drive construction of an unsupervised NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Wei Zhang , Youyuan Lin , Ruoran Ren , Xiaodong Wang , Zhenshuang Liang , Zhen Huang

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, with the potential to overcome many of the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Unfortunately, NMT systems are known to…

Improving neural machine translation (NMT) models using the back-translations of the monolingual target data (synthetic parallel data) is currently the state-of-the-art approach for training improved translation systems. The quality of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Idris Abdulmumin , Bashir Shehu Galadanci , Abubakar Isa

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

Simultaneous neural machine translation(SNMT) models start emitting the target sequence before they have processed the source sequence. The recent adaptive policies for SNMT use monotonic attention to perform read/write decisions based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Mohd Abbas Zaidi , Sathish Indurthi , Beomseok Lee , Nikhil Kumar Lakumarapu , Sangha Kim

In a multilingual neural machine translation model that fully shares parameters across all languages, an artificial language token is usually used to guide translation into the desired target language. However, recent studies show that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Renren Jin , Deyi Xiong

Despite advances in multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), we argue that there are still two major challenges in this area: data imbalance and representation degeneration. The data imbalance problem refers to the imbalance in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Wen Lai , Alexandra Chronopoulou , Alexander Fraser

As a sequence-to-sequence generation task, neural machine translation (NMT) naturally contains intrinsic uncertainty, where a single sentence in one language has multiple valid counterparts in the other. However, the dominant methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Xiangpeng Wei , Heng Yu , Yue Hu , Rongxiang Weng , Luxi Xing , Weihua Luo

Neural machine translation (NMT) systems require large amounts of high quality in-domain parallel corpora for training. State-of-the-art NMT systems still face challenges related to out-of-vocabulary words and dealing with low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jetic Gū , Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar