English
Related papers

Related papers: Dict-NMT: Bilingual Dictionary based NMT for Extre…

200 papers

Low-resource Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) is typically tasked with improving the translation performance on one or more language pairs with the aid of high-resource language pairs. In this paper, we propose two simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Gaurav Kumar , Philipp Koehn , Sanjeev Khudanpur

With the advent of the Transformer architecture, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) results have shown great improvement lately. However, results in low-resource conditions still lag behind in both bilingual and multilingual setups, due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Isidora Chara Tourni , Derry Wijaya

A prerequisite for training corpus-based machine translation (MT) systems -- either Statistical MT (SMT) or Neural MT (NMT) -- is the availability of high-quality parallel data. This is arguably more important today than ever before, as NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Alberto Poncelas , Dimitar Shterionov , Andy Way , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Peyman Passban

Many language pairs are low resource, meaning the amount and/or quality of available parallel data is not sufficient to train a neural machine translation (NMT) model which can reach an acceptable standard of accuracy. Many works have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Idris Abdulmumin , Bashir Shehu Galadanci , Abubakar Isa , Habeebah Adamu Kakudi , Ismaila Idris Sinan

Resources for the non-English languages are scarce and this paper addresses this problem in the context of machine translation, by automatically extracting parallel sentence pairs from the multilingual articles available on the Internet. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Sree Harsha Ramesh , Krishna Prasad Sankaranarayanan

In this paper, we proposed two strategies which can be applied to a multilingual neural machine translation system in order to better tackle zero-shot scenarios despite not having any parallel corpus. The experiments show that they are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Thanh-Le Ha , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

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

Morphological modeling in neural machine translation (NMT) is a promising approach to achieving open-vocabulary machine translation for morphologically-rich languages. However, existing methods such as sub-word tokenization and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Antoine Nzeyimana

In this paper, we present our first attempts in building a multilingual Neural Machine Translation framework under a unified approach. We are then able to employ attention-based NMT for many-to-many multilingual translation tasks. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Thanh-Le Ha , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Over the last few years two promising research directions in low-resource neural machine translation (NMT) have emerged. The first focuses on utilizing high-resource languages to improve the quality of low-resource languages via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Aditya Siddhant , Ankur Bapna , Yuan Cao , Orhan Firat , Mia Chen , Sneha Kudugunta , Naveen Arivazhagan , Yonghui Wu

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems built on multilingual sequence-to-sequence Language Models (msLMs) fail to deliver expected results when the amount of parallel data for a language, as well as the language's representation in the…

We introduce negative space learning machine translation (NSL-MT), a training method for underresourced languages, that augments limited parallel data with synthetically generated violations of the target language's grammar and explicitly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mamadou K. Keita , Christopher Homan , Huy Le

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach for Machine Translation (MT), and due to its success, it has absorbed the attention of many researchers in the field. In this paper, we study NMT model on Persian-English language pairs, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Mohaddeseh Bastan , Shahram Khadivi , Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour

Monolingual data has been demonstrated to be helpful in improving the translation quality of neural machine translation (NMT). The current methods stay at the usage of word-level knowledge, such as generating synthetic parallel data or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Rongxiang Weng , Heng Yu , Shujian Huang , Weihua Luo , Jiajun Chen

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) learns to translate multiple language pairs with a single model, potentially improving both the accuracy and the memory-efficiency of deployed models. However, the heavy data imbalance between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Chunting Zhou , Daniel Levy , Xian Li , Marjan Ghazvininejad , Graham Neubig

Neural machine translation (NMT) has progressed rapidly over the past several years, and modern models are able to achieve relatively high quality using only monolingual text data, an approach dubbed Unsupervised Machine Translation (UNMT).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Alex Jones , Isaac Caswell , Ishank Saxena , Orhan Firat

While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has made remarkable progress recently, NMT systems only rely on parallel corpora for parameter estimation. Since parallel corpora are usually limited in quantity, quality, and coverage,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Yong Cheng , Wei Xu , Zhongjun He , Wei He , Hua Wu , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

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

In cross-lingual transfer, NLP models over one or more source languages are applied to a low-resource target language. While most prior work has used a single source model or a few carefully selected models, here we consider a `massive'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Afshin Rahimi , Yuan Li , Trevor Cohn

Neural machine translation has become the state-of-the-art for language pairs with large parallel corpora. However, the quality of machine translation for low-resource languages leaves much to be desired. There are several approaches to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Ilshat Gibadullin , Aidar Valeev , Albina Khusainova , Adil Khan