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While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has made remarkable progress recently, NMT systems only rely on parallel corpora for parameter estimation. Since parallel corpora are usually limited in quantity, quality, and coverage,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Yong Cheng , Wei Xu , Zhongjun He , Wei He , Hua Wu , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

Scarcity of parallel sentence-pairs poses a significant hurdle for training high-quality Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models in bilingually low-resource scenarios. A standard approach is transfer learning, which involves taking a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Fahimeh Saleh , Wray Buntine , Gholamreza Haffari

Automatically generated synthetic training examples have been shown to improve performance in machine reading comprehension (MRC). Compared to human annotated gold standard data, synthetic training data has unique properties, such as high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yanda Chen , Md Arafat Sultan , Vittorio Castelli

Back-translation - data augmentation by translating target monolingual data - is a crucial component in modern neural machine translation (NMT). In this work, we reformulate back-translation in the scope of cross-entropy optimization of an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Miguel Graça , Yunsu Kim , Julian Schamper , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

We present an easy and efficient method to extend existing sentence embedding models to new languages. This allows to create multilingual versions from previously monolingual models. The training is based on the idea that a translated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Nils Reimers , Iryna Gurevych

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models achieve their best performance when large sets of parallel data are used for training. Consequently, techniques for augmenting the training set have become popular recently. One of these methods is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Alberto Poncelas , Maja Popovic , Dimitar Shterionov , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Andy Way

We tackle the task of automatically discriminating between human and machine translations. As opposed to most previous work, we perform experiments in a multilingual setting, considering multiple languages and multilingual pretrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Malina Chichirau , Rik van Noord , Antonio Toral

We explore ways of incorporating bilingual dictionaries to enable semi-supervised neural machine translation. Conventional back-translation methods have shown success in leveraging target side monolingual data. However, since the quality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Sreyashi Nag , Mihir Kale , Varun Lakshminarasimhan , Swapnil Singhavi

In Machine Translation, considering the document as a whole can help to resolve ambiguities and inconsistencies. In this paper, we propose a simple yet promising approach to add contextual information in Neural Machine Translation. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Valentin Macé , Christophe Servan

Improving neural machine translation (NMT) systems with prompting has achieved significant progress in recent years. In this work, we focus on how to integrate multi-knowledge, multiple types of knowledge, into NMT models to enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Ke Wang , Jun Xie , Yuqi Zhang , Yu Zhao

The many-to-many multilingual neural machine translation can be regarded as the process of integrating semantic features from the source sentences and linguistic features from the target sentences. To enhance zero-shot translation, models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Mengyu Bu , Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng

Current state-of-the-art cross-lingual summarization models employ multi-task learning paradigm, which works on a shared vocabulary module and relies on the self-attention mechanism to attend among tokens in two languages. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Thong Nguyen , Luu Anh Tuan

Over the last few years two promising research directions in low-resource neural machine translation (NMT) have emerged. The first focuses on utilizing high-resource languages to improve the quality of low-resource languages via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Aditya Siddhant , Ankur Bapna , Yuan Cao , Orhan Firat , Mia Chen , Sneha Kudugunta , Naveen Arivazhagan , Yonghui Wu

Back translation, as a technique for extending a dataset, is widely used by researchers in low-resource language translation tasks. It typically translates from the target to the source language to ensure high-quality translation results.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Hengjie Liu , Ruibo Hou , Yves Lepage

Neural machine translation (NMT) has recently gained widespread attention because of its high translation accuracy. However, it shows poor performance in the translation of long sentences, which is a major issue in low-resource languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Seiichiro Kondo , Kengo Hotate , Masahiro Kaneko , Mamoru Komachi

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

The availability of parallel texts is crucial to the performance of machine translation models. However, most of the world's languages face the predominant challenge of data scarcity. In this paper, we propose strategies to synthesize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Md Mahfuz Ibn Alam , Sina Ahmadi , Antonios Anastasopoulos

This paper investigates the use of Machine Translation (MT) to bootstrap a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) system for a new language for the use case of a large-scale voice-controlled device. The goal is to decrease the cost and time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Judith Gaspers , Penny Karanasou , Rajen Chatterjee

When training multilingual machine translation (MT) models that can translate to/from multiple languages, we are faced with imbalanced training sets: some languages have much more training data than others. Standard practice is to up-sample…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Xinyi Wang , Yulia Tsvetkov , Graham Neubig

Multilingual machine translation systems aim to make knowledge accessible across languages, yet learning effective cross-lingual representations remains challenging. These challenges are especially pronounced for low-resource languages,…

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