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In this paper, we introduce a hybrid search for attention-based neural machine translation (NMT). A target phrase learned with statistical MT models extends a hypothesis in the NMT beam search when the attention of the NMT model focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Leonard Dahlmann , Evgeny Matusov , Pavel Petrushkov , Shahram Khadivi

Building conversational speech recognition systems for new languages is constrained by the availability of utterances that capture user-device interactions. Data collection is both expensive and limited by the speed of manual transcription.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Surabhi Punjabi , Harish Arsikere , Sri Garimella

I train models for the task of neural machine translation for English-Hungarian and Hungarian-English, using the Hunglish2 corpus. The main contribution of this work is evaluating different data augmentation methods during the training of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Attila Nagy

The principal task in supervised neural machine translation (NMT) is to learn to generate target sentences conditioned on the source inputs from a set of parallel sentence pairs, and thus produce a model capable of generalizing to unseen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Xiangpeng Wei , Heng Yu , Yue Hu , Rongxiang Weng , Weihua Luo , Jun Xie , Rong Jin

Recently, neural machine translation (NMT) has emerged as a powerful alternative to conventional statistical approaches. However, its performance drops considerably in the presence of morphologically rich languages (MRLs). Neural engines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Peyman Passban , Qun Liu , Andy Way

The recently proposed neural network joint model (NNJM) (Devlin et al., 2014) augments the n-gram target language model with a heuristically chosen source context window, achieving state-of-the-art performance in SMT. In this paper, we give…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Fandong Meng , Zhengdong Lu , Mingxuan Wang , Hang Li , Wenbin Jiang , Qun Liu

This paper describes combinations of word vector representation and character vector representation in English-Indonesian neural machine translation (NMT). Six configurations of NMT models were built with different input vector…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 K. M. Shahih , Ayu Purwarianti

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are known to suffer from noisy inputs. To make models robust, we generate adversarial augmentation samples that attack the model and preserve the source-side semantic meaning at the same time. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Weiting Tan , Shuoyang Ding , Huda Khayrallah , Philipp Koehn

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

Standard context-aware neural machine translation (NMT) typically relies on parallel document-level data, exploiting both source and target contexts. Concatenation-based approaches in particular, still a strong baseline for document-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Harritxu Gete , Thierry Etchegoyhen

In simultaneous machine translation, the objective is to determine when to produce a partial translation given a continuous stream of source words, with a trade-off between latency and quality. We propose a neural machine translation (NMT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Patrick Wilken , Tamer Alkhouli , Evgeny Matusov , Pavel Golik

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

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach to machine translation that has made great progress in recent years. However, recent studies show that NMT generally produces fluent but inadequate translations (Tu et al. 2016b; Tu et al.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Xing Wang , Zhengdong Lu , Zhaopeng Tu , Hang Li , Deyi Xiong , Min Zhang

In this paper, we extend an attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) model by allowing it to access an entire training set of parallel sentence pairs even after training. The proposed approach consists of two stages. In the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Jiatao Gu , Yong Wang , Kyunghyun Cho , Victor O. K. Li

Character-based neural machine translation (NMT) models alleviate out-of-vocabulary issues, learn morphology, and move us closer to completely end-to-end translation systems. Unfortunately, they are also very brittle and easily falter when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Yonatan Belinkov , Yonatan Bisk

It is today acknowledged that neural network language models outperform backoff language models in applications like speech recognition or statistical machine translation. However, training these models on large amounts of data can take…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-08 Aram Ter-Sarkisov , Holger Schwenk , Loic Barrault , Fethi Bougares

Most of the existing Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models focus on the conversion of sequential data and do not directly use syntactic information. We propose a novel end-to-end syntactic NMT model, extending a sequence-to-sequence model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Akiko Eriguchi , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach for Machine Translation (MT), and due to its success, it has absorbed the attention of many researchers in the field. In this paper, we study NMT model on Persian-English language pairs, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Mohaddeseh Bastan , Shahram Khadivi , Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour

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

This paper proposes a technique for adding a new source or target language to an existing multilingual NMT model without re-training it on the initial set of languages. It consists in replacing the shared vocabulary with a small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Alexandre Berard