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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

We present a survey on multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), which has gained a lot of traction in the recent years. MNMT has been useful in improving translation quality as a result of knowledge transfer. MNMT is more promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Raj Dabre , Chenhui Chu , Anoop Kunchukuttan

We address the task of text translation on the How2 dataset using a state of the art transformer-based multimodal approach. The question we ask ourselves is whether visual features can support the translation process, in particular, given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zixiu Wu , Julia Ive , Josiah Wang , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

Multimodal machine translation is one of the applications that integrates computer vision and language processing. It is a unique task given that in the field of machine translation, many state-of-the-arts algorithms still only employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Xin Qian , Ziyi Zhong , Jieli Zhou

This review paper discusses how context has been used in neural machine translation (NMT) in the past two years (2017-2018). Starting with a brief retrospect on the rapid evolution of NMT models, the paper then reviews studies that evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Andrei Popescu-Belis

We introduce MT-LENS, a framework designed to evaluate Machine Translation (MT) systems across a variety of tasks, including translation quality, gender bias detection, added toxicity, and robustness to misspellings. While several toolkits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Javier García Gilabert , Carlos Escolano , Audrey Mash , Xixian Liao , Maite Melero

Previous work on multimodal machine translation has shown that visual information is only needed in very specific cases, for example in the presence of ambiguous words where the textual context is not sufficient. As a consequence, models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Julia Ive , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) aims to translate images containing texts from one language to another. Current research of end-to-end IIMT mainly conducts on synthetic data, with simple background, single font, fixed text position, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yanzhi Tian , Zeming Liu , Zhengyang Liu , Chong Feng , Xin Li , Heyan Huang , Yuhang Guo

End-to-end In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) aims to convert text embedded within an image into a target language while preserving the original visual context, layout, and rendering style. However, existing IIMT benchmarks are largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiahao Lyu , Pei Fu , Zhenhang Li , Weichao Zeng , Shaojie Zhang , Jiahui Yang , Can Ma , Yu Zhou , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan

Recently multimodal transformer models have gained popularity because their performance on language and vision tasks suggest they learn rich visual-linguistic representations. Focusing on zero-shot image retrieval tasks, we study three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Lisa Anne Hendricks , John Mellor , Rosalia Schneider , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aida Nematzadeh

Recent work in neural machine translation has demonstrated both the necessity and feasibility of using inter-sentential context -- context from sentences other than those currently being translated. However, while many current methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Patrick Fernandes , Kayo Yin , Graham Neubig , André F. T. Martins

Multimodal learning, a rapidly evolving field in artificial intelligence, seeks to construct more versatile and robust systems by integrating and analyzing diverse types of data, including text, images, audio, and video. Inspired by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Priyaranjan Pattnayak , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Bhargava Kumar , Amit Agarwal , Ishan Banerjee , Srikant Panda , Tejaswini Kumar

Although neural machine translation (NMT) has advanced the state-of-the-art on various language pairs, the interpretability of NMT remains unsatisfactory. In this work, we propose to address this gap by focusing on understanding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Shilin He , Zhaopeng Tu , Xing Wang , Longyue Wang , Michael R. Lyu , Shuming Shi

This paper introduces a large-scale multimodal and multilingual dataset that aims to facilitate research on grounding words to images in their contextual usage in language. The dataset consists of images selected to unambiguously illustrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Josiah Wang , Pranava Madhyastha , Josiel Figueiredo , Chiraag Lala , Lucia Specia

Machine Translation (MT) has the potential to help people overcome language barriers and is widely used in high-stakes scenarios, such as in hospitals. However, in order to use MT reliably and safely, users need to understand when to trust…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wesley Hanwen Deng , Nikita Mehandru , Samantha Robertson , Niloufar Salehi

Investigating value alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) based on cultural context has become a critical area of research. However, similar biases have not been extensively explored in large vision-language models (VLMs). As the scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Srishti Yadav , Zhi Zhang , Daniel Hershcovich , Ekaterina Shutova

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) seeks to address the challenges posed by linguistic polysemy and ambiguity in translation tasks by incorporating visual information. A key bottleneck in current MMT research is the effective utilization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chenyu Lu , Shiliang Sun , Jing Zhao , Nan Zhang , Tengfei Song , Hao Yang

We present a survey on multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), which has gained a lot of traction in the recent years. MNMT has been useful in improving translation quality as a result of translation knowledge transfer (transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Raj Dabre , Chenhui Chu , Anoop Kunchukuttan

Despite the rapid progress of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), they have largely overlooked the importance of visual processing. In a simple yet revealing experiment, we interestingly find that language-only models, when provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yuting Li , Lai Wei , Kaipeng Zheng , Jingyuan Huang , Guilin Li , Bo Wang , Linghe Kong , Lichao Sun , Weiran Huang

The capability to jointly process multi-modal information is becoming an essential task. However, the limited number of paired multi-modal data and the large computational requirements in multi-modal learning hinder the development. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Minsu Kim , Jee-weon Jung , Hyeongseop Rha , Soumi Maiti , Siddhant Arora , Xuankai Chang , Shinji Watanabe , Yong Man Ro