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The paper presents a method for word sense disambiguation based on parallel corpora. The method exploits recent advances in word alignment and word clustering based on automatic extraction of translation equivalents and being supported by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dan Tufis , Radu Ion , Nancy Ide

Text simplification plays a crucial role in improving the accessibility and comprehensibility of written information for diverse audiences, including language learners and readers with limited literacy. Despite its importance, large-scale,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kenji Hilasaca , Nouran Khallaf , Serge Sharoff

The primary objective of our work is to build a large-scale English-Thai dataset for machine translation. We construct an English-Thai machine translation dataset with over 1 million segment pairs, curated from various sources, namely news,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Lalita Lowphansirikul , Charin Polpanumas , Attapol T. Rutherford , Sarana Nutanong

The success of a text simplification system heavily depends on the quality and quantity of complex-simple sentence pairs in the training corpus, which are extracted by aligning sentences between parallel articles. To evaluate and improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Chao Jiang , Mounica Maddela , Wuwei Lan , Yang Zhong , Wei Xu

Parallel corpora play an important role in training machine translation (MT) models, particularly for low-resource languages where high-quality bilingual data is scarce. This review provides a comprehensive overview of available parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Rahul Raja , Arpita Vats

Most existing word alignment methods rely on manual alignment datasets or parallel corpora, which limits their usefulness. Here, to mitigate the dependence on manual data, we broaden the source of supervision by relaxing the requirement for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Masaaki Nagata , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

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

Data curation is a critical yet under-researched step in the machine translation training paradigm. To train translation systems, data acquisition relies primarily on human translations and digital parallel sources or, to a limited degree,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Saumitra Yadav , Manish Shrivastava

Several recent papers claim human parity at sentence-level Machine Translation (MT), especially in high-resource languages. Thus, in response, the MT community has, in part, shifted its focus to document-level translation. Translating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Yuchen Eleanor Jiang , Tianyu Liu , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Mrinmaya Sachan , Ryan Cotterell

In this paper, we present our submissions to the unified WMT25 Translation Evaluation Shared Task. For the Quality Score Prediction subtask, we create a new generation of MetricX with improvements in the input format and the training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Juraj Juraska , Tobias Domhan , Mara Finkelstein , Tetsuji Nakagawa , Geza Kovacs , Daniel Deutsch , Pidong Wang , Markus Freitag

Recently, numbers of works shows that the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) can be improved to a certain extent with using visual information. However, most of these conclusions are drawn from the analysis of experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 ZhenHao Tang , XiaoBing Zhang , Zi Long , XiangHua Fu

Computing next-token likelihood ratios between two language models (LMs) is a standard task in training paradigms such as knowledge distillation. Since this requires both models to share the same probability space, it becomes challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Buu Phan , Ashish Khisti , Karen Ullrich

Quality Estimation (QE) is the task of evaluating the quality of a translation when reference translation is not available. The goal of QE aligns with the task of corpus filtering, where we assign the quality score to the sentence pairs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Akshay Batheja , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Understanding unstructured text is a major goal within natural language processing. Comprehension tests pose questions based on short text passages to evaluate such understanding. In this work, we investigate machine comprehension on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Adam Trischler , Zheng Ye , Xingdi Yuan , Jing He , Phillip Bachman , Kaheer Suleman

Translation is important for cross-language communication, and many efforts have been made to improve its accuracy. However, less investment is conducted in aligning translations with human preferences, such as translation tones or styles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shuqiao Sun , Yutong Yao , Peiwen Wu , Feijun Jiang , Kaifu Zhang

This paper describes a method for the automatic inference of structural transfer rules to be used in a shallow-transfer machine translation (MT) system from small parallel corpora. The structural transfer rules are based on alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Felipe Sánchez-Martínez , Mikel L. Forcada

In this work, we introduce the construction of a machine translation (MT) assisted and human-in-the-loop multilingual parallel corpus with annotations of multi-word expressions (MWEs), named AlphaMWE. The MWEs include verbal MWEs (vMWEs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Lifeng Han , Najet Hadj Mohamed , Malak Rassem , Gareth Jones , Alan Smeaton , Goran Nenadic

In this paper, we describe compare-mt, a tool for holistic analysis and comparison of the results of systems for language generation tasks such as machine translation. The main goal of the tool is to give the user a high-level and coherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Graham Neubig , Zi-Yi Dou , Junjie Hu , Paul Michel , Danish Pruthi , Xinyi Wang , John Wieting

Recent machine translation algorithms mainly rely on parallel corpora. However, since the availability of parallel corpora remains limited, only some resource-rich language pairs can benefit from them. We constructed a parallel corpus for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Makoto Morishita , Jun Suzuki , Masaaki Nagata

With an increasing number of parameters and pre-training data, generative large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities to solve tasks with minimal or no task-related examples. Notably, LLMs have been successfully employed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Christoph Leiter , Juri Opitz , Daniel Deutsch , Yang Gao , Rotem Dror , Steffen Eger