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In this paper, we propose a new task of machine translation (MT), which is based on no parallel sentences but can refer to a ground-truth bilingual dictionary. Motivated by the ability of a monolingual speaker learning to translate via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xiangyu Duan , Baijun Ji , Hao Jia , Min Tan , Min Zhang , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo , Yue Zhang

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) approaches employing monolingual data are showing steady improvements in resource rich conditions. However, evaluations using real-world low-resource languages still result in unsatisfactory performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Surafel M. Lakew , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

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

Neural machine translation~(NMT) is ineffective for zero-resource languages. Recent works exploring the possibility of unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) with only monolingual data can achieve promising results. However, there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Mingxuan Wang , Hongxiao Bai , Hai Zhao , Lei Li

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

While neural machine translation (NMT) has become the new paradigm, the parameter optimization requires large-scale parallel data which is scarce in many domains and language pairs. In this paper, we address a new translation scenario in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Yining Wang , Yang Zhao , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong , Zhengshan Xue

Perfect machine translation (MT) would render cross-lingual transfer (XLT) by means of multilingual language models (mLMs) superfluous. Given, on the one hand, the large body of work on improving XLT with mLMs and, on the other hand, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Benedikt Ebing , Goran Glavaš

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation approaches are based on the use of task-specific models and the addition of one more language can only be done by retraining the whole system. In this work, we propose a new training schedule that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-Jussà , José A. R. Fonollosa

Transferring representations from large supervised tasks to downstream tasks has shown promising results in AI fields such as Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP). In parallel, the recent progress in Machine Translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Akiko Eriguchi , Melvin Johnson , Orhan Firat , Hideto Kazawa , Wolfgang Macherey

Prior work has proved that Translation memory (TM) can boost the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT). In contrast to existing work that uses bilingual corpus as TM and employs source-side similarity search for memory retrieval,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Deng Cai , Yan Wang , Huayang Li , Wai Lam , Lemao Liu

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (NMT) enables one model to serve all translation directions, including ones that are unseen during training, i.e. zero-shot translation. Despite being theoretically attractive, current models often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yilin Yang , Akiko Eriguchi , Alexandre Muzio , Prasad Tadepalli , Stefan Lee , Hany Hassan

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has seen a tremendous spurt of growth in less than ten years, and has already entered a mature phase. While considered as the most widely used solution for Machine Translation, its performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Surangika Ranathunga , En-Shiun Annie Lee , Marjana Prifti Skenduli , Ravi Shekhar , Mehreen Alam , Rishemjit Kaur

Despite advances in neural machine translation (NMT) quality, rare words continue to be problematic. For humans, the solution to the rare-word problem has long been dictionaries, but dictionaries cannot be straightforwardly incorporated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Xing Jie Zhong , David Chiang

Multi-source translation is an approach to exploit multiple inputs (e.g. in two different languages) to increase translation accuracy. In this paper, we examine approaches for multi-source neural machine translation (NMT) using an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yuta Nishimura , Katsuhito Sudoh , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems rely on large amounts of parallel data. This is a major challenge for low-resource languages. Building on recent work on unsupervised and semi-supervised methods, we present an approach that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Lierni Sestorain , Massimiliano Ciaramita , Christian Buck , Thomas Hofmann

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

Machine translation systems achieve near human-level performance on some languages, yet their effectiveness strongly relies on the availability of large amounts of parallel sentences, which hinders their applicability to the majority of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Guillaume Lample , Myle Ott , Alexis Conneau , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

An important concern in training multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) is to translate between language pairs unseen during training, i.e zero-shot translation. Improving this ability kills two birds with one stone by providing an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Ngoc-Quan Pham , Jan Niehues , Thanh-Le Ha , Alex Waibel

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

While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved notable success in the past years in translating a handful of resource-rich language pairs, it still suffers from the data scarcity problem for low-resource language pairs and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Yun Chen , Yang Liu , Victor O. K. Li