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This paper presents the systems submitted by the Yes-MT team for the Low-Resource Indic Language Translation Shared Task at WMT 2024 (Pakray et al., 2024), focusing on translating between English and the Assamese, Mizo, Khasi, and Manipuri…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yash Bhaskar , Parameswari Krishnamurthy

Parallel corpora are indispensable for training neural machine translation (NMT) models, and parallel corpora for most language pairs do not exist or are scarce. In such cases, pivot language NMT can be helpful where a pivot language is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Raj Dabre , Aizhan Imankulova , Masahiro Kaneko , Abhisek Chakrabarty

Machine translation systems are expected to cope with various types of constraints in many practical scenarios. While neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved strong performance in unconstrained cases, it is non-trivial to impose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Shuo Wang , Peng Li , Zhixing Tan , Zhaopeng Tu , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

Through the development of neural machine translation, the quality of machine translation systems has been improved significantly. By exploiting advancements in deep learning, systems are now able to better approximate the complex mapping…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Jan Niehues , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Thanh-Le Ha , Matthias Sperber , Alex Waibel

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to improve translation quality by equipping the source sentence with its corresponding image. Despite the promising performance, MMT models still suffer the problem of input degradation: models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Baijun Ji , Tong Zhang , Yicheng Zou , Bojie Hu , Si Shen

With multilingual machine translation (MMT) models continuing to grow in size and number of supported languages, it is natural to reuse and upgrade existing models to save computation as data becomes available in more languages. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Simeng Sun , Maha Elbayad , Anna Sun , James Cross

Common intermediate language representation in neural machine translation can be used to extend bilingual to multilingual systems by incremental training. In this paper, we propose a new architecture based on introducing an interlingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-jussà , José A. R. Fonollosa

Improving neural machine translation (NMT) systems with prompting has achieved significant progress in recent years. In this work, we focus on how to integrate multi-knowledge, multiple types of knowledge, into NMT models to enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Ke Wang , Jun Xie , Yuqi Zhang , Yu Zhao

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

Machine dialect interpretation assumes a real part in encouraging man-machine correspondence and in addition men-men correspondence in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Machine Translation (MT) alludes to utilizing machine to change one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Nayan Jyoti Kalita , Baharul Islam

Unsupervised translation has reached impressive performance on resource-rich language pairs such as English-French and English-German. However, early studies have shown that in more realistic settings involving low-resource, rare languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Xavier Garcia , Aditya Siddhant , Orhan Firat , Ankur P. Parikh

The data scarcity in low-resource languages has become a bottleneck to building robust neural machine translation systems. Fine-tuning a multilingual pre-trained model (e.g., mBART (Liu et al., 2020)) on the translation task is a good…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Zihan Liu , Genta Indra Winata , Pascale Fung

India's linguistic landscape is one of the most diverse in the world, comprising over 120 major languages and approximately 1,600 additional languages, with 22 officially recognized as scheduled languages in the Indian Constitution. Despite…

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

While multilingual language models (MLMs) have been trained on 100+ languages, they are typically only evaluated across a handful of them due to a lack of available test data in most languages. This is particularly problematic when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Rochelle Choenni , Sara Rajaee , Christof Monz , Ekaterina Shutova

Recent work in multilingual machine translation (MMT) has focused on the potential of positive transfer between languages, particularly cases where higher-resourced languages can benefit lower-resourced ones. While training an MMT model,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Simeng Sun , Angela Fan , James Cross , Vishrav Chaudhary , Chau Tran , Philipp Koehn , Francisco Guzman

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

Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (UNMT) focuses on improving NMT results under the assumption there is no human translated parallel data, yet little work has been done so far in highlighting its advantages compared to supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Isidora Chara Tourni , Derry Wijaya

Monolingual data have been demonstrated to be helpful in improving translation quality of both statistical machine translation (SMT) systems and neural machine translation (NMT) systems, especially in resource-poor or domain adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Zhirui Zhang , Shujie Liu , Mu Li , Ming Zhou , Enhong Chen

India has a rich linguistic landscape with languages from 4 major language families spoken by over a billion people. 22 of these languages are listed in the Constitution of India (referred to as scheduled languages) are the focus of this…