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In the task of machine translation, context information is one of the important factor. But considering the context information model dose not proposed. The paper propose a new model which can integrate context information and make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Tetsuto Takano , Satoshi Yamane

Gender inclusivity in language technologies has become a prominent research topic. In this study, we explore gender-neutral translation (GNT) as a form of gender inclusivity and a goal to be achieved by machine translation (MT) models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Andrea Piergentili , Dennis Fucci , Beatrice Savoldi , Luisa Bentivogli , Matteo Negri

As generic machine translation (MT) quality has improved, the need for targeted benchmarks that explore fine-grained aspects of quality has increased. In particular, gender accuracy in translation can have implications in terms of output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Anna Currey , Maria Nădejde , Raghavendra Pappagari , Mia Mayer , Stanislas Lauly , Xing Niu , Benjamin Hsu , Georgiana Dinu

While Large Language Models achieve state-of-the-art results across a wide range of NLP tasks, they remain prone to systematic biases. Among these, gender bias is particularly salient in MT, due to systematic differences across languages in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chiara Manna , Hosein Mohebbi , Afra Alishahi , Frédéric Blain , Eva Vanmassenhove

The interest in demographic information retrieval based on text data has increased in the research community because applications have shown success in different sectors such as security, marketing, heath-care, and others. Recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Daniel Escobar-Grisales , Juan Camilo Vasquez-Correa , Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave

There have been significant efforts to interpret the encoder of Transformer-based encoder-decoder architectures for neural machine translation (NMT); meanwhile, the decoder remains largely unexamined despite its critical role. During…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yilin Yang , Longyue Wang , Shuming Shi , Prasad Tadepalli , Stefan Lee , Zhaopeng Tu

When translating from notional gender languages (e.g., English) into grammatical gender languages (e.g., Italian), the generated translation requires explicit gender assignments for various words, including those referring to the speaker.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Marco Gaido , Dennis Fucci , Matteo Negri , Luisa Bentivogli

Code-switching is a common phenomenon among multilingual speakers, where alternation between two or more languages occurs within the context of a single conversation. While multilingual humans can seamlessly switch back and forth between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Thamme Gowda , Mozhdeh Gheini , Jonathan May

In the encoder-decoder architecture for neural machine translation (NMT), the hidden states of the recurrent structures in the encoder and decoder carry the crucial information about the sentence.These vectors are generated by parameters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Rongxiang Weng , Shujian Huang , Zaixiang Zheng , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

We study the effect of tokenization on gender bias in machine translation, an aspect that has been largely overlooked in previous works. Specifically, we focus on the interactions between the frequency of gendered profession names in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Bar Iluz , Tomasz Limisiewicz , Gabriel Stanovsky , David Mareček

Machine translation (MT) is an area of study in Natural Language processing which deals with the automatic translation of human language, from one language to another by the computer. Having a rich research history spanning nearly three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Siddhant Srivastava , Anupam Shukla , Ritu Tiwari

The translation of gender-neutral person-referring terms (e.g., the students) is often non-trivial. Translating from English into German poses an interesting case -- in German, person-referring nouns are usually gender-specific, and if the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Manuel Lardelli , Giuseppe Attanasio , Anne Lauscher

Neural machine translation (NMT) models often suffer from gender biases that harm users and society at large. In this work, we explore how bridging the gap between languages for which parallel data is not available affects gender bias in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Lena Cabrera , Jan Niehues

Recent developments in Text Style Transfer have led this field to be more highlighted than ever. The task of transferring an input's style to another is accompanied by plenty of challenges (e.g., fluency and content preservation) that need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Reza Khanmohammadi , Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel

State-of-the-art multilingual machine translation relies on a universal encoder-decoder, which requires retraining the entire system to add new languages. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach that is based on language-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-jussà , José A. R. Fonollosa , Mikel Artetxe

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Dzmitry Bahdanau , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

Gender bias in machine translation can manifest when choosing gender inflections based on spurious gender correlations. For example, always translating doctors as men and nurses as women. This can be particularly harmful as models become…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Tom Kocmi , Tomasz Limisiewicz , Gabriel Stanovsky

The paper argues the importance of high-quality translation for spoken language translation systems. It describes an architecture suitable for rapid development of high-quality limited-domain translation systems, which has been implemented…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Manny Rayner , Pierrette Bouillon

Machine translation (MT) is an important sub-field of natural language processing that aims to translate natural languages using computers. In recent years, end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved great success and has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhixing Tan , Shuo Wang , Zonghan Yang , Gang Chen , Xuancheng Huang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

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