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In this paper, we propose two new features for estimating phrase-based machine translation parameters from mainly monolingual data. Our method is based on two recently introduced neural network vector representation models for words and…

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Neural Networks trained with gradient descent are known to be susceptible to catastrophic forgetting caused by parameter shift during the training process. In the context of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) this results in poor performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Ankur Bapna , Orhan Firat

Partially inspired by successful applications of variational recurrent neural networks, we propose a novel variational recurrent neural machine translation (VRNMT) model in this paper. Different from the variational NMT, VRNMT introduces a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Jinsong Su , Shan Wu , Deyi Xiong , Yaojie Lu , Xianpei Han , Biao Zhang

Standard context-aware neural machine translation (NMT) typically relies on parallel document-level data, exploiting both source and target contexts. Concatenation-based approaches in particular, still a strong baseline for document-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Harritxu Gete , Thierry Etchegoyhen

Neural machine translation (NMT) systems amplify lexical biases present in their training data, leading to artificially impoverished language in output translations. These language-level characteristics render automatic translations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Huiyuan Lai , Esther Ploeger , Rik van Noord , Antonio Toral

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

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has made remarkable progress using large-scale textual data, but the potential of incorporating multimodal inputs, especially visual information, remains underexplored in high-resource settings. While prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Baban Gain , Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay , Samrat Mukherjee , Chandranath Adak , Asif Ekbal

How to achieve neural machine translation with limited parallel data? Existing techniques often rely on large-scale monolingual corpora, which is impractical for some low-resource languages. In this paper, we turn to connect several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zhe Yang , Qingkai Fang , Yang Feng

While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has made remarkable progress recently, it still suffers from the data scarcity problem for low-resource language pairs and domains. In this paper, we propose a method for zero-resource NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Yun Chen , Yang Liu , Yong Cheng , Victor O. K. Li

Bilingual lexicon induction, translating words from the source language to the target language, is a long-standing natural language processing task. Recent endeavors prove that it is promising to employ images as pivot to learn the lexicon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Shizhe Chen , Qin Jin , Alexander Hauptmann

Neural machine translation (NMT) takes deterministic sequences for source representations. However, either word-level or subword-level segmentations have multiple choices to split a source sequence with different word segmentors or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Fengshun Xiao , Jiangtong Li , Hai Zhao , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen

One of possible ways of obtaining continuous-space sentence representations is by training neural machine translation (NMT) systems. The recent attention mechanism however removes the single point in the neural network from which the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Ondřej Cífka , Ondřej Bojar

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

In this work we formulate the problem of image captioning as a multimodal translation task. Analogous to machine translation, we present a sequence-to-sequence recurrent neural networks (RNN) model for image caption generation. Different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Chang Liu , Fuchun Sun , Changhu Wang , Feng Wang , Alan Yuille

End-to-end neural machine translation has overtaken statistical machine translation in terms of translation quality for some language pairs, specially those with large amounts of parallel data. Besides this palpable improvement, neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Cristina España-Bonet , Ádám Csaba Varga , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Josef van Genabith

One of the major challenges of machine translation (MT) is ambiguity, which can in some cases be resolved by accompanying context such as images. However, recent work in multimodal MT (MMT) has shown that obtaining improvements from images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Matthieu Futeral , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

Neural approaches have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on machine translation but suffer from the high cost of collecting large scale parallel data. Thus, a lot of research has been conducted for neural machine translation (NMT) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Rui Wang , Xu Tan , Renqian Luo , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Retrieval-augmented Neural Machine Translation models have been successful in many translation scenarios. Different from previous works that make use of mutually similar but redundant translation memories~(TMs), we propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Xin Cheng , Shen Gao , Lemao Liu , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Previous work on multimodal machine translation (MMT) has focused on the way of incorporating vision features into translation but little attention is on the quality of vision models. In this work, we investigate the impact of vision models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Bei Li , Chuanhao Lv , Zefan Zhou , Tao Zhou , Tong Xiao , Anxiang Ma , JingBo Zhu

Neural machine translation (NMT) has recently gained widespread attention because of its high translation accuracy. However, it shows poor performance in the translation of long sentences, which is a major issue in low-resource languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Seiichiro Kondo , Kengo Hotate , Masahiro Kaneko , Mamoru Komachi