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This paper considers the unsupervised domain adaptation problem for neural machine translation (NMT), where we assume the access to only monolingual text in either the source or target language in the new domain. We propose a cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Thuy-Trang Vu , Xuanli He , Dinh Phung , Gholamreza Haffari

Non-Autoregressive machine Translation (NAT) models have demonstrated significant inference speedup but suffer from inferior translation accuracy. The common practice to tackle the problem is transferring the Autoregressive machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yongchang Hao , Shilin He , Wenxiang Jiao , Zhaopeng Tu , Michael Lyu , Xing Wang

Most neural machine translation (NMT) models are based on the sequential encoder-decoder framework, which makes no use of syntactic information. In this paper, we improve this model by explicitly incorporating source-side syntactic trees.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Huadong Chen , Shujian Huang , David Chiang , Jiajun Chen

We present a novel cross-lingual transfer method for paradigm completion, the task of mapping a lemma to its inflected forms, using a neural encoder-decoder model, the state of the art for the monolingual task. We use labeled data from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Katharina Kann , Ryan Cotterell , Hinrich Schütze

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

Although end-to-end Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has achieved remarkable progress in the past two years, it suffers from a major drawback: translations generated by NMT systems often lack of adequacy. It has been widely observed that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Zhaopeng Tu , Yang Liu , Lifeng Shang , Xiaohua Liu , Hang Li

The success of bidirectional encoders using masked language models, such as BERT, on numerous natural language processing tasks has prompted researchers to attempt to incorporate these pre-trained models into neural machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Haoran Xu , Benjamin Van Durme , Kenton Murray

Interlingua based Machine Translation (MT) aims to encode multiple languages into a common linguistic representation and then decode sentences in multiple target languages from this representation. In this work we explore this idea in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Amrita Saha , Mitesh M. Khapra , Sarath Chandar , Janarthanan Rajendran , Kyunghyun Cho

Non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models, which remove the dependence on previous target tokens from the inputs of the decoder, achieve significantly inference speedup but at the cost of inferior accuracy compared to autoregressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Di He , Tao Qin , Linli Xu , Tie-Yan Liu

Neural machine translation (NMT) is nowadays commonly applied at the subword level, using byte-pair encoding. A promising alternative approach focuses on character-level translation, which simplifies processing pipelines in NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Nikolay Banar , Walter Daelemans , Mike Kestemont

The lack of annotated data in many languages is a well-known challenge within the field of multilingual natural language processing (NLP). Therefore, many recent studies focus on zero-shot transfer learning and joint training across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Niels van der Heijden , Samira Abnar , Ekaterina Shutova

Multilingual neural machine translation models generally distinguish translation directions by the language tag (LT) in front of the source or target sentences. However, current LT strategies cannot indicate the desired target language as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Zengkui Sun , Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

The integration of language models for neural machine translation has been extensively studied in the past. It has been shown that an external language model, trained on additional target-side monolingual data, can help improve translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Christian Herold , Yingbo Gao , Mohammad Zeineldeen , Hermann Ney

Voice Conversion research in recent times has increasingly focused on improving the zero-shot capabilities of existing methods. Despite remarkable advancements, current architectures still tend to struggle in zero-shot cross-lingual…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Advait Joglekar , Divyanshu Singh , Rooshil Rohit Bhatia , S. Umesh

We train neural machine translation (NMT) models from English to six target languages, using NMT encoder representations to predict ancestor constituent labels of source language words. We find that NMT encoders learn similar source syntax…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Tyler A. Chang , Anna N. Rafferty

In this work we look into adding a new language to a multilingual NMT system in an unsupervised fashion. Under the utilization of pre-trained cross-lingual word embeddings we seek to exploit a language independent multilingual sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Carlos Mullov , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Alexander Waibel

We present effective pre-training strategies for neural machine translation (NMT) using parallel corpora involving a pivot language, i.e., source-pivot and pivot-target, leading to a significant improvement in source-target translation. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Yunsu Kim , Petre Petrov , Pavel Petrushkov , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

Natural language understanding and generation models follow one of the two dominant architectural paradigms: language models (LMs) that process concatenated sequences in a single stack of layers, and encoder-decoder models (EncDec) that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Biao Zhang , Behrooz Ghorbani , Ankur Bapna , Yong Cheng , Xavier Garcia , Jonathan Shen , Orhan Firat

End-to-end Speech Translation (ST) aims at translating the source language speech into target language text without generating the intermediate transcriptions. However, the training of end-to-end methods relies on parallel ST data, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Chen Wang , Yuchen Liu , Boxing Chen , Jiajun Zhang , Wei Luo , Zhongqiang Huang , Chengqing Zong

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has recently achieved remarkable results for several language pairs. However, it can only translate between a single language pair and cannot produce translation results for multiple language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Haipeng Sun , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Tiejun Zhao