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In recent years, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been shown to be more effective than phrase-based statistical methods, thus quickly becoming the state of the art in machine translation (MT). However, NMT systems are limited in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Surafel M. Lakew , Marcello Federico , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Zero-shot cross-domain sequential recommendation (ZCDSR) enables predictions in unseen domains without additional training or fine-tuning, addressing the limitations of traditional models in sparse data environments. Recent advancements in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yunzhe Li , Junting Wang , Hari Sundaram , Zhining Liu

Large pretrained multilingual language models (ML-LMs) have shown remarkable capabilities of zero-shot cross-lingual transfer, without direct cross-lingual supervision. While these results are promising, follow-up works found that, within…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhihui Xie , Handong Zhao , Tong Yu , Shuai Li

Massively multilingual pre-trained language models (MMPLMs) are developed in recent years demonstrating superpowers and the pre-knowledge they acquire for downstream tasks. This work investigates whether MMPLMs can be applied to clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lifeng Han , Gleb Erofeev , Irina Sorokina , Serge Gladkoff , Goran Nenadic

Zero-shot cross-lingual knowledge transfer enables a multilingual pretrained language model, finetuned on a task in one language, make predictions for this task in other languages. While being broadly studied for natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Nadezhda Chirkova , Vassilina Nikoulina

We present a novel cross-lingual transfer method for paradigm completion, the task of mapping a lemma to its inflected forms, using a neural encoder-decoder model, the state of the art for the monolingual task. We use labeled data from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Katharina Kann , Ryan Cotterell , Hinrich Schütze

The language-independency of encoded representations within multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) models is crucial for their generalization ability on zero-shot translation. Neural interlingua representations have been shown as an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhuoyuan Mao , Haiyue Song , Raj Dabre , Chenhui Chu , Sadao Kurohashi

Document-level neural machine translation (DocNMT) achieves coherent translations by incorporating cross-sentence context. However, for most language pairs there's a shortage of parallel documents, although parallel sentences are readily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Biao Zhang , Ankur Bapna , Melvin Johnson , Ali Dabirmoghaddam , Naveen Arivazhagan , Orhan Firat

Recent work shows that documents from encyclopedias serve as helpful auxiliary information for zero-shot learning. Existing methods align the entire semantics of a document with corresponding images to transfer knowledge. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xiangyan Qu , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Jiamin Zhuang , Yuanmin Tang , Gang Xiong , Gaopeng Gou , Qi Wu

Recent multilingual pretrained language models (mPLMs) often avoid using language embeddings -- learnable vectors assigned to individual languages. However, this places a significant burden on token representations to encode all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Yihong Liu , Haotian Ye , Chunlan Ma , Mingyang Wang , Hinrich Schütze

Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) aims at recognizing the predicate-argument structure of a sentence and can be decomposed into two subtasks: predicate disambiguation and argument labeling. Prior work deals with these two tasks independently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Nan Wang , Jiwei Li , Yuxian Meng , Xiaofei Sun , Han Qiu , Ziyao Wang , Guoyin Wang , Jun He

Multi-choice Machine Reading Comprehension (MMRC) aims to select the correct answer from a set of options based on a given passage and question. The existing methods employ the pre-trained language model as the encoder, share and transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chenhao Cui , Yufan Jiang , Shuangzhi Wu , Zhoujun Li

Zero-shot translation, directly translating between language pairs unseen in training, is a promising capability of multilingual neural machine translation (NMT). However, it usually suffers from capturing spurious correlations between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Weizhi Wang , Zhirui Zhang , Yichao Du , Boxing Chen , Jun Xie , Weihua Luo

We present a multilingual bag-of-entities model that effectively boosts the performance of zero-shot cross-lingual text classification by extending a multilingual pre-trained language model (e.g., M-BERT). It leverages the multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Sosuke Nishikawa , Ikuya Yamada , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka , Isao Echizen

Understanding the core dimensions of conceptual semantics is fundamental to uncovering how meaning is organized in language and the brain. Existing approaches often rely on predefined semantic dimensions that offer only broad…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yunhao Zhang , Shaonan Wang , Nan Lin , Xinyi Dong , Chong Li , Chengqing Zong

This paper demonstrates that multilingual pretraining and multilingual fine-tuning are both critical for facilitating cross-lingual transfer in zero-shot translation, where the neural machine translation (NMT) model is tested on source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Guanhua Chen , Shuming Ma , Yun Chen , Dongdong Zhang , Jia Pan , Wenping Wang , Furu Wei

Acoustic word embeddings are fixed-dimensional representations of variable-length speech segments. Such embeddings can form the basis for speech search, indexing and discovery systems when conventional speech recognition is not possible. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Herman Kamper , Yevgen Matusevych , Sharon Goldwater

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

Pre-trained multilingual language models play an important role in cross-lingual natural language understanding tasks. However, existing methods did not focus on learning the semantic structure of representation, and thus could not optimize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mingqi Li , Fei Ding , Dan Zhang , Long Cheng , Hongxin Hu , Feng Luo

In this work, we show a novel method for neural machine translation (NMT), using a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM), adjusted for textual data, following recent advances in the field. We show that it's possible to translate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Eliya Nachmani , Shaked Dovrat