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Existing neural machine translation (NMT) models generally translate sentences in isolation, missing the opportunity to take advantage of document-level information. In this work, we propose to augment NMT models with a very light-weight…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Zhaopeng Tu , Yang Liu , Shuming Shi , Tong Zhang

Large language models trained primarily in a monolingual setting have demonstrated their ability to generalize to machine translation using zero- and few-shot examples with in-context learning. However, even though zero-shot translations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Weiting Tan , Haoran Xu , Lingfeng Shen , Shuyue Stella Li , Kenton Murray , Philipp Koehn , Benjamin Van Durme , Yunmo Chen

This paper studies zero-shot cross-lingual transfer of vision-language models. Specifically, we focus on multilingual text-to-video search and propose a Transformer-based model that learns contextualized multilingual multimodal embeddings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Po-Yao Huang , Mandela Patrick , Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig , Florian Metze , Alexander Hauptmann

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

Zero-shot neural machine translation is an attractive goal because of the high cost of obtaining data and building translation systems for new translation directions. However, previous papers have reported mixed success in zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Annette Rios , Mathias Müller , Rico Sennrich

We incorporate an explicit neural interlingua into a multilingual encoder-decoder neural machine translation (NMT) architecture. We demonstrate that our model learns a language-independent representation by performing direct zero-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yichao Lu , Phillip Keung , Faisal Ladhak , Vikas Bhardwaj , Shaonan Zhang , Jason Sun

Neural machine translation (NMT) offers a novel alternative formulation of translation that is potentially simpler than statistical approaches. However to reach competitive performance, NMT models need to be exceedingly large. In this paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Yoon Kim , Alexander M. Rush

While recent advances in deep learning led to significant improvements in machine translation, neural machine translation is often still not able to continuously adapt to the environment. For humans, as well as for machine translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Jan Niehues

Despite impressive progress in high-resource settings, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) still struggles in low-resource and out-of-domain scenarios, often failing to match the quality of phrase-based translation. We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Xing Niu , Michael Denkowski , Marine Carpuat

Zero-shot translation aims to translate between language pairs not seen during training in Multilingual Machine Translation (MMT) and is largely considered an open problem. A common, albeit resource-consuming, solution is to add as many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-03 Di Wu , Shaomu Tan , Yan Meng , David Stap , Christof Monz

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

Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (UNMT) focuses on improving NMT results under the assumption there is no human translated parallel data, yet little work has been done so far in highlighting its advantages compared to supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Isidora Chara Tourni , Derry Wijaya

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) aims at using one single model for multiple translation directions. Recent work applies non-autoregressive Transformers to improve the efficiency of MNMT, but requires expensive knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Chenyang Huang , Fei Huang , Zaixiang Zheng , Osmar R. Zaïane , Hao Zhou , Lili Mou

Machine translation (MT) is a technique that leverages computers to translate human languages automatically. Nowadays, neural machine translation (NMT) which models direct mapping between source and target languages with deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Due to Multilingual Neural Machine Translation's (MNMT) capability of zero-shot translation, many works have been carried out to fully exploit the potential of MNMT in zero-shot translation. It is often hypothesized that positional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xingran Chen , Ge Zhang , Jie Fu

Diffusion models have shown exceptional scaling properties in the image synthesis domain, and initial attempts have shown similar benefits for applying diffusion to unconditional text synthesis. Denoising diffusion models attempt to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-17 Matthew Baas , Kevin Eloff , Herman Kamper

Zero-shot Learners are models capable of predicting unseen classes. In this work, we propose a Zero-shot Learning approach for text categorization. Our method involves training model on a large corpus of sentences to learn the relationship…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Pushpankar Kumar Pushp , Muktabh Mayank Srivastava

Neural machine translation (NMT), a new approach to machine translation, has achieved promising results comparable to those of traditional approaches such as statistical machine translation (SMT). Despite its recent success, NMT cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Zi Long , Takehito Utsuro , Tomoharu Mitsuhashi , Mikio Yamamoto

In spite of the recent success of neural machine translation (NMT) in standard benchmarks, the lack of large parallel corpora poses a major practical problem for many language pairs. There have been several proposals to alleviate this issue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre , Kyunghyun Cho

Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer is promising, however has been shown to be sub-optimal, with inferior transfer performance across low-resource languages. In this work, we envision languages as domains for improving zero-shot transfer by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shanu Kumar , Abbaraju Soujanya , Sandipan Dandapat , Sunayana Sitaram , Monojit Choudhury