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Graph translation is very promising research direction and has a wide range of potential real-world applications. Graph is a natural structure for representing relationship and interactions, and its translation can encode the intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Tianxiang Zhao , Xianfeng Tang , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

Bilingual machine-readable dictionaries are knowledge resources useful in many automatic tasks. However, compared to monolingual computational lexicons like WordNet, bilingual dictionaries typically provide a lower amount of structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-12 Tiziano Flati , Roberto Navigli

Multilingual generative models obtain remarkable cross-lingual in-context learning capabilities through pre-training on large-scale corpora. However, they still exhibit a performance bias toward high-resource languages and learn isolated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Chong Li , Shaonan Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

With the advent of end-to-end deep learning approaches in machine translation, interest in word alignments initially decreased; however, they have again become a focus of research more recently. Alignments are useful for typological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ayyoob Imani , Masoud Jalili Sabet , Lütfi Kerem Şenel , Philipp Dufter , François Yvon , Hinrich Schütze

Improving multilingual language models capabilities in low-resource languages is generally difficult due to the scarcity of large-scale data in those languages. In this paper, we relax the reliance on texts in low-resource languages by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Fajri Koto , Tilman Beck , Zeerak Talat , Iryna Gurevych , Timothy Baldwin

Great progress has been made in unsupervised bilingual lexicon induction (UBLI) by aligning the source and target word embeddings independently trained on monolingual corpora. The common assumption of most UBLI models is that the embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Hailong Cao , Tiejun Zhao

Language Identification in textual documents is the process of automatically detecting the language contained in a document based on its content. The present Language Identification techniques presume that a document contains text in one of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Mohd Zeeshan Ansari , Tanvir Ahmad , Noaima Bari

Benefiting from transformer-based pre-trained language models, neural ranking models have made significant progress. More recently, the advent of multilingual pre-trained language models provides great support for designing neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zhiqi Huang , Puxuan Yu , James Allan

We demonstrate the effectiveness of multilingual learning for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. The central assumption of our work is that by combining cues from multiple languages, the structure of each becomes more apparent. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-23 Tahira Naseem , Benjamin Snyder , Jacob Eisenstein , Regina Barzilay

In this paper, we propose an extension to graph-based sentiment lexicon induction methods by incorporating distributed and semantic word representations in building the similarity graph to expand a three-dimensional sentiment lexicon. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Areej Alhothali , Jesse Hoey

Cross-lingual model transfer is a compelling and popular method for predicting annotations in a low-resource language, whereby parallel corpora provide a bridge to a high-resource language and its associated annotated corpora. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Meng Fang , Trevor Cohn

This work presents methods for learning cross-lingual sentence representations using paired or unpaired bilingual texts. We hypothesize that the cross-lingual alignment strategy is transferable, and therefore a model trained to align only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Chih-chan Tien , Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Neural machine translation (NMT) systems require large amounts of high quality in-domain parallel corpora for training. State-of-the-art NMT systems still face challenges related to out-of-vocabulary words and dealing with low-resource…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Jetic Gū , Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

Multilingual machine translation has recently been in vogue given its potential for improving machine translation performance for low-resource languages via transfer learning. Empirical examinations demonstrating the success of existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Ion Madrazo Azpiazu , Maria Soledad Pera

To support machine learning of cross-language prosodic mappings and other ways to improve speech-to-speech translation, we present a protocol for collecting closely matched pairs of utterances across languages, a description of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Nigel G. Ward , Jonathan E. Avila , Emilia Rivas , Divette Marco

The goal of universal machine translation is to learn to translate between any pair of languages, given a corpus of paired translated documents for \emph{a small subset} of all pairs of languages. Despite impressive empirical results and an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Han Zhao , Junjie Hu , Andrej Risteski

The current Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant challenges in improving their performance on low-resource languages and urgently need data-efficient methods without costly fine-tuning. From the perspective of language-bridge, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuemei Xu , Kexin Xu , Jian Zhou , Ling Hu , Lin Gui

This paper shows how to induce an N-best translation lexicon from a bilingual text corpus using statistical properties of the corpus together with four external knowledge sources. The knowledge sources are cast as filters, so that any…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 I. Dan Melamed

Most of the existing methods for bilingual word embedding only consider shallow context or simple co-occurrence information. In this paper, we propose a latent bilingual sense unit (Bilingual Sense Clique, BSC), which is derived from a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Rui Wang , Hai Zhao , Sabine Ploux , Bao-Liang Lu , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have been effective on large bilingual datasets. However, the existing methods and techniques show that the model's performance is highly dependent on the number of examples in training data. For many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Nalin Kumar , Deepak Kumar , Subhankar Mishra