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The recently proposed massively multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) system has been shown to be capable of translating over 100 languages to and from English within a single model. Its improved translation performance on low…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Aditya Siddhant , Melvin Johnson , Henry Tsai , Naveen Arivazhagan , Jason Riesa , Ankur Bapna , Orhan Firat , Karthik Raman

The Bangla language includes many regional dialects, adding to its cultural richness. The translation of Bangla Language into regional dialects presents a challenge due to significant variations in vocabulary, pronunciation, and sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Md. Arafat Alam Khandaker , Ziyan Shirin Raha , Bidyarthi Paul , Tashreef Muhammad

While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved notable success in the past years in translating a handful of resource-rich language pairs, it still suffers from the data scarcity problem for low-resource language pairs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Yun Chen , Yang Liu , Victor O. K. Li

In this paper, we propose a robust neural machine translation (NMT) framework. The framework consists of a homophone noise detector and a syllable-aware NMT model to homophone errors. The detector identifies potential homophone errors in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Wenjie Qin , Xiang Li , Yuhui Sun , Deyi Xiong , Jianwei Cui , Bin Wang

We address the challenging task of neural machine translation (NMT) in the entertainment domain, where the objective is to automatically translate a given dialogue from a source language content to a target language. This task has various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Pratik Rakesh Singh , Mohammadi Zaki , Pankaj Wasnik

The remarkable understanding and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have greatly improved translation performance. However, incorrect understanding of the sentence to be translated can degrade translation quality. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Andong Chen , Kehai Chen , Yang Xiang , Xuefeng Bai , Muyun Yang , Yang Feng , Tiejun Zhao , Min zhang

Objective: Today's neural machine translation (NMT) can achieve near human-level translation quality and greatly facilitates international communications, but the lack of parallel corpora poses a key problem to the development of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shengxuan Luo , Huaiyuan Ying , Jiao Li , Sheng Yu

Although attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has achieved remarkable progress in recent years, it still suffers from issues of repeating and dropping translations. To alleviate these issues, we propose a novel key-value…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Fandong Meng , Zhaopeng Tu , Yong Cheng , Haiyang Wu , Junjie Zhai , Yuekui Yang , Di Wang

Automatic translation of dialogue texts is a much needed demand in many real life scenarios. However, the currently existing neural machine translation delivers unsatisfying results. In this paper, we conduct a deep analysis of a dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Tao Wang , Chengqi Zhao , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li , Deyi Xiong

We present a framework for machine translation evaluation using neural networks in a pairwise setting, where the goal is to select the better translation from a pair of hypotheses, given the reference translation. In this framework,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Francisco Guzmán , Shafiq R. Joty , Lluís Màrquez , Preslav Nakov

Goal-oriented conversational interfaces are designed to accomplish specific tasks and typically have interactions that tend to span multiple turns adhering to a pre-defined structure and a goal. However, conventional neural language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ashish Shenoy , Sravan Bodapati , Katrin Kirchhoff

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) enhances translation quality by incorporating visual context, helping to resolve textual ambiguities. While existing MMT methods perform well in bilingual settings, extending them to multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jingxuan Wei , Caijun Jia , Qi Chen , Yujun Cai , Linzhuang Sun , Xiangxiang Zhang , Gaowei Wu , Bihui Yu

To improve the performance of Neural Machine Translation~(NMT) for low-resource languages~(LRL), one effective strategy is to leverage parallel data from a related high-resource language~(HRL). However, multilingual data has been found more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Luyu Gao , Xinyi Wang , Graham Neubig

This paper presents an in-depth investigation on integrating neural language models in translation systems. Scaling neural language models is a difficult task, but crucial for real-world applications. This paper evaluates the impact on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Paul Baltescu , Phil Blunsom

Neural machine translation (NMT) models are conventionally trained with token-level negative log-likelihood (NLL), which does not guarantee that the generated translations will be optimized for a selected sequence-level evaluation metric.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Raphael Shu , Kang Min Yoo , Jung-Woo Ha

Despite the recent success of automatic metrics for assessing translation quality, their application in evaluating the quality of machine-translated chats has been limited. Unlike more structured texts like news, chat conversations are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Sweta Agrawal , Amin Farajian , Patrick Fernandes , Ricardo Rei , André F. T. Martins

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are known to suffer from noisy inputs. To make models robust, we generate adversarial augmentation samples that attack the model and preserve the source-side semantic meaning at the same time. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Weiting Tan , Shuoyang Ding , Huda Khayrallah , Philipp Koehn

Variational Neural Machine Translation (VNMT) is an attractive framework for modeling the generation of target translations, conditioned not only on the source sentence but also on some latent random variables. The latent variable modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Hendra Setiawan , Matthias Sperber , Udhay Nallasamy , Matthias Paulik

An effective method to improve neural machine translation with monolingual data is to augment the parallel training corpus with back-translations of target language sentences. This work broadens the understanding of back-translation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Sergey Edunov , Myle Ott , Michael Auli , David Grangier

Compared to sentence-level systems, document-level neural machine translation (NMT) models produce a more consistent output across a document and are able to better resolve ambiguities within the input. There are many works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Christian Herold , Hermann Ney