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Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (NMT) enables one model to serve all translation directions, including ones that are unseen during training, i.e. zero-shot translation. Despite being theoretically attractive, current models often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yilin Yang , Akiko Eriguchi , Alexandre Muzio , Prasad Tadepalli , Stefan Lee , Hany Hassan

Many language pairs are low resource, meaning the amount and/or quality of available parallel data is not sufficient to train a neural machine translation (NMT) model which can reach an acceptable standard of accuracy. Many works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Idris Abdulmumin , Bashir Shehu Galadanci , Abubakar Isa , Habeebah Adamu Kakudi , Ismaila Idris Sinan

Transfer learning between different language pairs has shown its effectiveness for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in low-resource scenario. However, existing transfer methods involving a common target language are far from success in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Baijun Ji , Zhirui Zhang , Xiangyu Duan , Min Zhang , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation approaches are based on the use of task-specific models and the addition of one more language can only be done by retraining the whole system. In this work, we propose a new training schedule that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-Jussà , José A. R. Fonollosa

Transferring representations from large supervised tasks to downstream tasks has shown promising results in AI fields such as Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP). In parallel, the recent progress in Machine Translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Akiko Eriguchi , Melvin Johnson , Orhan Firat , Hideto Kazawa , Wolfgang Macherey

Recently, neural machine translation (NMT) has been extended to multilinguality, that is to handle more than one translation direction with a single system. Multilingual NMT showed competitive performance against pure bilingual systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Surafel M. Lakew , Mauro Cettolo , Marcello Federico

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) enables one system to translate sentences from multiple source languages to multiple target languages, greatly reducing deployment costs compared with conventional bilingual systems. The MNMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Akiko Eriguchi , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Hany Hassan Awadalla

Neural machine translation~(NMT) is ineffective for zero-resource languages. Recent works exploring the possibility of unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) with only monolingual data can achieve promising results. However, there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Mingxuan Wang , Hongxiao Bai , Hai Zhao , Lei Li

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

Multilingual neural machine translation has shown the capability of directly translating between language pairs unseen in training, i.e. zero-shot translation. Despite being conceptually attractive, it often suffers from low output quality.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Danni Liu , Jan Niehues , James Cross , Francisco Guzmán , Xian Li

In this paper, we proposed two strategies which can be applied to a multilingual neural machine translation system in order to better tackle zero-shot scenarios despite not having any parallel corpus. The experiments show that they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Thanh-Le Ha , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

The many-to-many multilingual neural machine translation can translate between language pairs unseen during training, i.e., zero-shot translation. Improving zero-shot translation requires the model to learn universal representations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng

The multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) model has a promising capability of zero-shot translation, where it could directly translate between language pairs unseen during training. For good transfer performance from supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Pengzhi Gao , Liwen Zhang , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

The language-independency of encoded representations within multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) models is crucial for their generalization ability on zero-shot translation. Neural interlingua representations have been shown as an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhuoyuan Mao , Haiyue Song , Raj Dabre , Chenhui Chu , Sadao Kurohashi

Current end-to-end approaches to Spoken Language Translation (SLT) rely on limited training resources, especially for multilingual settings. On the other hand, Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MultiNMT) approaches rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-jussà , José A. R. Fonollosa , Carlos Segura

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 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

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) has aroused widespread interest due to its efficiency. An exciting advantage of MNMT models is that they could also translate between unsupervised (zero-shot) language directions. Language tag…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Liwei Wu , Shanbo Cheng , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li

Previous work mainly focuses on improving cross-lingual transfer for NLU tasks with a multilingual pretrained encoder (MPE), or improving the performance on supervised machine translation with BERT. However, it is under-explored that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Guanhua Chen , Shuming Ma , Yun Chen , Li Dong , Dongdong Zhang , Jia Pan , Wenping Wang , Furu Wei

Multilingual neural machine translation can translate unseen language pairs during training, i.e. zero-shot translation. However, the zero-shot translation is always unstable. Although prior works attributed the instability to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Zhi Qu , Taro Watanabe