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Neural machine translation (NMT) approaches have improved the state of the art in many machine translation settings over the last couple of years, but they require large amounts of training data to produce sensible output. We demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Robert Östling , Jörg Tiedemann

One of possible ways of obtaining continuous-space sentence representations is by training neural machine translation (NMT) systems. The recent attention mechanism however removes the single point in the neural network from which the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ondřej Cífka , Ondřej Bojar

In state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation (NMT), an attention mechanism is used during decoding to enhance the translation. At every step, the decoder uses this mechanism to focus on different parts of the source sentence to gather the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has become the new state-of-the-art in several language pairs. However, it remains a challenging problem how to integrate NMT with a bilingual dictionary which mainly contains words rarely or never seen in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Word alignment is to find translationally equivalent words between source and target sentences. Previous work has demonstrated that self-training can achieve competitive word alignment results. In this paper, we propose to use word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Jinpeng Zhang , Chuanqi Dong , Xiangyu Duan , Yuqi Zhang , Min Zhang

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

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, with the potential to overcome many of the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Unfortunately, NMT systems are known to…

One of the difficulties of neural machine translation (NMT) is the recall and appropriate translation of low-frequency words or phrases. In this paper, we propose a simple, fast, and effective method for recalling previously seen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jingyi Zhang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichro Sumita , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

As neural machine translation (NMT) is not easily amenable to explicit correction of errors, incorporating pre-specified translations into NMT is widely regarded as a non-trivial challenge. In this paper, we propose and explore three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Tao Wang , Shaohui Kuang , Deyi Xiong , António Branco

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) can be used to generate fluent output. As such, language models have been investigated for incorporation with NMT. In prior investigations, two models have been used: a translation model and a language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Michiki Kurosawa , Mamoru Komachi

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

Differently from the traditional statistical MT that decomposes the translation task into distinct separately learned components, neural machine translation uses a single neural network to model the entire translation process. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Elena Voita , Rico Sennrich , Ivan Titov

This work proposes an extensive analysis of the Transformer architecture in the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) setting. Focusing on the encoder-decoder attention mechanism, we prove that attention weights systematically make alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Javier Ferrando , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Neural machine translation (NMT) has been a new paradigm in machine translation, and the attention mechanism has become the dominant approach with the state-of-the-art records in many language pairs. While there are variants of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Heeyoul Choi , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved notable success in recent times, however it is also widely recognized that this approach has limitations with handling infrequent words and word pairs. This paper presents a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Yang Feng , Shiyue Zhang , Andi Zhang , Dong Wang , Andrew Abel

The basic concept in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is to train a large Neural Network that maximizes the translation performance on a given parallel corpus. NMT is then using a simple left-to-right beam-search decoder to generate new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Markus Freitag , Yaser Al-Onaizan

Multilingual machine translation addresses the task of translating between multiple source and target languages. We propose task-specific attention models, a simple but effective technique for improving the quality of sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Graeme Blackwood , Miguel Ballesteros , Todd Ward

Word alignment was once a core unsupervised learning task in natural language processing because of its essential role in training statistical machine translation (MT) models. Although unnecessary for training neural MT models, word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Thomas Zenkel , Joern Wuebker , John DeNero

Neural machine translation (NMT) often makes mistakes in translating low-frequency content words that are essential to understanding the meaning of the sentence. We propose a method to alleviate this problem by augmenting NMT systems with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Philip Arthur , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

Machine translation (MT) systems translate text between different languages by automatically learning in-depth knowledge of bilingual lexicons, grammar and semantics from the training examples. Although neural machine translation (NMT) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Shilin He , Xing Wang , Shuming Shi , Michael R. Lyu , Zhaopeng Tu