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The remarkable success of large language models has been driven by dense models trained on massive unlabeled, unstructured corpora. These corpora typically contain text from diverse, heterogeneous sources, but information about the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Alexandra Chronopoulou , Matthew E. Peters , Jesse Dodge

Machine translation systems are very sensitive to the domains they were trained on. Several domain adaptation techniques have been deeply studied. We propose a new technique for neural machine translation (NMT) that we call domain control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Catherine Kobus , Josep Crego , Jean Senellart

Adapter modules, additional trainable parameters that enable efficient fine-tuning of pretrained transformers, have recently been used for language specialization of multilingual transformers, improving downstream zero-shot cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Marko Vidoni , Ivan Vulić , Goran Glavaš

In this paper, we focus on the domain-specific translation with low resources, where in-domain parallel corpora are scarce or nonexistent. One common and effective strategy for this case is exploiting in-domain monolingual data with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Hao-Ran Wei , Zhirui Zhang , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo

A popular approach to creating a zero-shot cross-language retrieval model is to substitute a monolingual pretrained language model in the retrieval model with a multilingual pretrained language model such as Multilingual BERT. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Eugene Yang , Suraj Nair , Dawn Lawrie , James Mayfield , Douglas W. Oard

Fine-tuning is widely used to tailor large language models for specific tasks such as neural machine translation (NMT). However, leveraging transfer learning is computationally expensive when fine-tuning large multilingual models with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Josh McGiff , Nikola S. Nikolov

Unsupervised machine translation, which utilizes unpaired monolingual corpora as training data, has achieved comparable performance against supervised machine translation. However, it still suffers from data-scarce domains. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Cheonbok Park , Yunwon Tae , Taehee Kim , Soyoung Yang , Mohammad Azam Khan , Eunjeong Park , Jaegul Choo

Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation ($k$NN-MT) has achieved great success in domain adaptation tasks by integrating pre-trained Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models with domain-specific token-level retrieval. However, the reasons…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Ruize Gao , Zhirui Zhang , Yichao Du , Lemao Liu , Rui Wang

Neural networks are known to be data hungry and domain sensitive, but it is nearly impossible to obtain large quantities of labeled data for every domain we are interested in. This necessitates the use of domain adaptation strategies. One…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Zi-Yi Dou , Xinyi Wang , Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig

Neural machine translation (NMT) is sensitive to domain shift. In this paper, we address this problem in an active learning setting where we can spend a given budget on translating in-domain data, and gradually fine-tune a pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig

In this paper, we present our first attempts in building a multilingual Neural Machine Translation framework under a unified approach. We are then able to employ attention-based NMT for many-to-many multilingual translation tasks. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Thanh-Le Ha , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

We explore best practices for training small, memory efficient machine translation models with sequence-level knowledge distillation in the domain adaptation setting. While both domain adaptation and knowledge distillation are widely-used,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Mitchell A. Gordon , Kevin Duh

In domain adaptation for neural machine translation, translation performance can benefit from separating features into domain-specific features and common features. In this paper, we propose a method to explicitly model the two kinds of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng , Qun Liu

Multi-domain machine translation (MDMT) aims to build a unified model capable of translating content across diverse domains. Despite the impressive machine translation capabilities demonstrated by large language models (LLMs), domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Shuting Jiang , Ran Song , Yuxin Huang , Yan Xiang , Yantuan Xian , Shengxiang Gao , Zhengtao Yu

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are capable of translating between multiple source and target languages. Despite various approaches to train such models, they have difficulty with zero-shot translation: translating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Naveen Arivazhagan , Ankur Bapna , Orhan Firat , Roee Aharoni , Melvin Johnson , Wolfgang Macherey

We propose two methods to make unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) more parameter efficient using adapters, small bottleneck layers interspersed with every layer of the large-scale pre-trained language model (PLM). The first method…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Bhavitvya Malik , Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap , Min-Yen Kan , Soujanya Poria

Pretrained language models (PLMs) are trained on massive corpora, but often need to specialize to specific domains. A parameter-efficient adaptation method suggests training an adapter for each domain on the task of language modeling. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Alexandra Chronopoulou , Matthew E. Peters , Alexander Fraser , Jesse Dodge

Progress in natural language processing research is catalyzed by the possibilities given by the widespread software frameworks. This paper introduces Adaptor library that transposes the traditional model-centric approach composed of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Michal Štefánik , Vít Novotný , Nikola Groverová , Petr Sojka

Most existing document-level neural machine translation (NMT) models leverage a fixed number of the previous or all global source sentences to handle the context-independent problem in standard NMT. However, the translating of each source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Linlin Zhang

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) aims to translate multiple languages with a single model and has been proved successful thanks to effective knowledge transfer among different languages with shared parameters. However, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Qian Wang , Jiajun Zhang