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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

This paper explores augmenting monolingual data for knowledge distillation in neural machine translation. Source language monolingual text can be incorporated as a forward translation. Interestingly, we find the best way to incorporate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Alham Fikri Aji , Kenneth Heafield

The machine translation mechanism translates texts automatically between different natural languages, and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has gained attention for its rational context analysis and fluent translation accuracy. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Neeraj Vashistha , Kriti Singh , Ramakant Shakya

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

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT), data augmentation methods such as back-translation have proven their effectiveness in improving translation performance. In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation approach for NMT, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Chang Jin , Shigui Qiu , Nini Xiao , Hao Jia

We present Neural Machine Translation (NMT) training using document-level metrics with batch-level documents. Previous sequence-objective approaches to NMT training focus exclusively on sentence-level metrics like sentence BLEU which do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Danielle Saunders , Felix Stahlberg , Bill Byrne

While machine translation has traditionally relied on large amounts of parallel corpora, a recent research line has managed to train both Neural Machine Translation (NMT) and Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems using monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre

Deep neural networks have gained tremendous importance in many computer vision tasks. However, their power comes at the cost of large amounts of annotated data required for supervised training. In this work we review and compare different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Viktor Seib , Benjamin Lange , Stefan Wirtz

Scarcity of parallel sentence pairs is a major challenge for training high quality neural machine translation (NMT) models in bilingually low-resource scenarios, as NMT is data-hungry. Multi-task learning is an elegant approach to inject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Poorya Zaremoodi , Gholamreza Haffari

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) models are commonly trained on a joint set of bilingual corpora which is acutely English-centric (i.e. English either as the source or target language). While direct data between two languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Markus Freitag , Orhan Firat

Although neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved impressive progress recently, it is usually trained on the clean parallel data set and hence cannot work well when the input sentence is the production of the automatic speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Xiang Li , Haiyang Xue , Wei Chen , Yang Liu , Yang Feng , Qun Liu

An effective method to generate a large number of parallel sentences for training improved neural machine translation (NMT) systems is the use of back-translations of the target-side monolingual data. Recently, iterative back-translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Idris Abdulmumin , Bashir Shehu Galadanci , Abubakar Isa

While back-translation is simple and effective in exploiting abundant monolingual corpora to improve low-resource neural machine translation (NMT), the synthetic bilingual corpora generated by NMT models trained on limited authentic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shuo Wang , Yang Liu , Chao Wang , Huanbo Luan , Maosong Sun

Recent work in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has shown significant quality gains from noised-beam decoding during back-translation, a method to generate synthetic parallel data. We show that the main role of such synthetic noise is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Isaac Caswell , Ciprian Chelba , David Grangier

We introduce Bi-SimCut: a simple but effective training strategy to boost neural machine translation (NMT) performance. It consists of two procedures: bidirectional pretraining and unidirectional finetuning. Both procedures utilize SimCut,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Pengzhi Gao , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Back-translation has proven to be an effective method to utilize monolingual data in neural machine translation (NMT), and iteratively conducting back-translation can further improve the model performance. Selecting which monolingual data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Zi-Yi Dou , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

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

Recent studies have shown that reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective approach for improving the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) system. However, due to its instability, successfully RL training is challenging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Lijun Wu , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Jianhuang Lai , Tie-Yan Liu

Back-translation is a critical component of Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (UNMT), which generates pseudo parallel data from target monolingual data. A UNMT model is trained on the pseudo parallel data with translated source, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Zhiwei He , Xing Wang , Rui Wang , Shuming Shi , Zhaopeng Tu

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