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Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) is usually done via sequence-level knowledge distillation (Seq-KD) from a full-sentence neural machine translation (NMT) model. However, there is still a significant performance gap between NMT and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Hexuan Deng , Liang Ding , Xuebo Liu , Meishan Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Min Zhang

Machine Translation (MT) system generally aims at automatic representation of source language into target language retaining the originality of context using various Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Among various NLP methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sudhansu Bala Das , Divyajoti Panda , Tapas Kumar Mishra , Bidyut Kr. Patra

Neural machine translation (NMT) generates the next target token given as input the previous ground truth target tokens during training while the previous generated target tokens during inference, which causes discrepancy between training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Jianfeng Lu

Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) requires target tokens to be generated in real-time as streaming source tokens are consumed. Traditional approaches to SiMT typically require sophisticated architectures and extensive parameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Libo Zhao , Jing Li , Ziqian Zeng

Simultaneous translation is a task in which translation begins before the speaker has finished speaking, so it is important to decide when to start the translation process. However, deciding whether to read more input words or start to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yasumasa Kano , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

We present a novel approach to efficiently learn a simultaneous translation model with coupled programmer-interpreter policies. First, wepresent an algorithmic oracle to produce oracle READ/WRITE actions for training bilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Philip Arthur , Trevor Cohn , Gholamreza Haffari

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT), each token prediction is conditioned on the source sentence and the target prefix (what has been previously translated at a decoding step). However, previous work on interpretability in NMT has mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Javier Ferrando , Gerard I. Gállego , Belen Alastruey , Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Most existing simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) systems are trained and evaluated on offline translation corpora. We argue that SiMT systems should be trained and tested on real interpretation data. To illustrate this argument, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jinming Zhao , Philip Arthur , Gholamreza Haffari , Trevor Cohn , Ehsan Shareghi

There has been great progress in improving streaming machine translation, a simultaneous paradigm where the system appends to a growing hypothesis as more source content becomes available. We study a related problem in which revisions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Naveen Arivazhagan , Colin Cherry , Wolfgang Macherey , George Foster

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

Attention is the core mechanism of today's most used architectures for natural language processing and has been analyzed from many perspectives, including its effectiveness for machine translation-related tasks. Among these studies,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sara Papi , Marco Turchi , Matteo Negri

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a predominant machine translation technology nowadays because of its end-to-end trainable flexibility. However, NMT still struggles to translate properly in low-resource settings specifically on distant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Baban Gain , Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay , Asif Ekbal

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to improve translation quality by incorporating information from other modalities, such as vision. Previous MMT systems mainly focus on better access and use of visual information and tend to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yaoming Zhu , Zewei Sun , Shanbo Cheng , Luyang Huang , Liwei Wu , Mingxuan Wang

In this paper, we discuss different methods which use meta information and richer context that may accompany source language input to improve machine translation quality. We focus on category information of input text as meta information,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Shahram Khadivi , Patrick Wilken , Leonard Dahlmann , Evgeny Matusov

In this work, we provide a recipe for training machine translation models in a limited resource setting by leveraging synthetic target data generated using a large pre-trained model. We show that consistently across different benchmarks in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Sarthak Mittal , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Oleksii Kuchaiev

We present the preliminary rankings of machine translation (MT) systems submitted to the WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task, as determined by automatic evaluation metrics. Because these rankings are derived from automatic…

Recently, token-level adaptive training has achieved promising improvement in machine translation, where the cross-entropy loss function is adjusted by assigning different training weights to different tokens, in order to alleviate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Yangyifan Xu , Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Jiajun Zhang , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Simultaneous machine translation (SMT) takes streaming input utterances and incrementally produces target text. Existing SMT methods mainly use the partial utterance that has already arrived at the input and the generated hypothesis.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Siqi Ouyang , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Zhehuai Chen , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Jagadeesh Balam , Lei Li , Boris Ginsburg

In Transformer-based neural machine translation (NMT), the positional encoding mechanism helps the self-attention networks to learn the source representation with order dependency, which makes the Transformer-based NMT achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kehai Chen , Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita

Simultaneous translation is a task in which translation begins before the speaker has finished speaking. In its evaluation, we have to consider the latency of the translation in addition to the quality. The latency is preferably as small as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Yasumasa Kano , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura