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Traditional Neural machine translation (NMT) involves a fixed training procedure where each sentence is sampled once during each epoch. In reality, some sentences are well-learned during the initial few epochs; however, using this approach,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita

Simultaneous translation systems start producing the output while processing the partial source sentence in the incoming input stream. These systems need to decide when to read more input and when to write the output. These decisions depend…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Mohd Abbas Zaidi , Beomseok Lee , Sangha Kim , Chanwoo Kim

In this paper, we extend an attention-based neural machine translation (NMT) model by allowing it to access an entire training set of parallel sentence pairs even after training. The proposed approach consists of two stages. In the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Jiatao Gu , Yong Wang , Kyunghyun Cho , Victor O. K. Li

How to solve the data scarcity problem for end-to-end speech-to-text translation (ST)? It's well known that data augmentation is an efficient method to improve performance for many tasks by enlarging the dataset. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Xuxin Cheng , Qianqian Dong , Fengpeng Yue , Tom Ko , Mingxuan Wang , Yuexian Zou

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an ongoing technique for Machine Translation (MT) using enormous artificial neural network. It has exhibited promising outcomes and has shown incredible potential in solving challenging machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Rashi Kumar , Piyush Jha , Vineet Sahula

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has become a significant technology in natural language processing through extensive research and development. However, the deficiency of high-quality bilingual language pair data still poses a major…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Soon-Jae Hwang , Chang-Sung Jeong

Simultaneous Machine Translation is the task of incrementally translating an input sentence before it is fully available. Currently, simultaneous translation is carried out by translating each sentence independently of the previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Javier Iranzo-Sánchez , Jorge Civera , Alfons Juan

In the present article, we identified the qualitative differences between Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) outputs. We have tried to answer two important questions: 1. Does NMT perform equivalently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Sainik Kumar Mahata , Soumil Mandal , Dipankar Das , Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Machine translation has wide applications in daily life. In mission-critical applications such as translating official documents, incorrect translation can have unpleasant or sometimes catastrophic consequences. This motivates recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Jialun Cao , Meiziniu Li , Yeting Li , Ming Wen , Shing-Chi Cheung

Machine Translation is one of the major oldest and the most active research area in Natural Language Processing. Currently, Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) dominates the Machine Translation research. Statistical Machine Translation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-01 M. Anand Kumar , V. Dhanalakshmi , K. P. Soman , V. Sharmiladevi

In this work, we examine methods for data augmentation for text-based tasks such as neural machine translation (NMT). We formulate the design of a data augmentation policy with desirable properties as an optimization problem, and derive a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Xinyi Wang , Hieu Pham , Zihang Dai , Graham Neubig

Generalization and reliability of multilingual translation often highly depend on the amount of available parallel data for each language pair of interest. In this paper, we focus on zero-shot generalization---a challenging setup that tests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Maruan Al-Shedivat , Ankur P. Parikh

This paper introduces a new data augmentation method for neural machine translation that can enforce stronger semantic consistency both within and across languages. Our method is based on Conditional Masked Language Model (CMLM) which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Qiao Cheng , Jin Huang , Yitao Duan

It is widely known that hallucination is a critical issue in Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) due to the absence of source-side information. While many efforts have been made to enhance performance for SiMT, few of them attempt to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Meizhi Zhong , Kehai Chen , Zhengshan Xue , Lemao Liu , Mingming Yang , Min Zhang

A rising interest in the modality extension of foundation language models warrants discussion on the most effective, and efficient, multimodal training approach. This work focuses on neural machine translation (NMT) and proposes a joint…

Unsupervised neural machine translation(NMT) is associated with noise and errors in synthetic data when executing vanilla back-translations. Here, we explicitly exploits language model(LM) to drive construction of an unsupervised NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Wei Zhang , Youyuan Lin , Ruoran Ren , Xiaodong Wang , Zhenshuang Liang , Zhen Huang

In Machine Translation, Large Language Models (LLMs) have generally underperformed compared to conventional encoder-decoder systems and thus see limited adoption. However, LLMs excel at modeling contextual information, making them a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ireh Kim , Tesia Sker , Chanwoo Kim

In most of neural machine translation distillation or stealing scenarios, the goal is to preserve the performance of the target model (teacher). The highest-scoring hypothesis of the teacher model is commonly used to train a new model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Vilém Zouhar

Machine translation (MT) involving Indigenous languages, including those possibly endangered, is challenging due to lack of sufficient parallel data. We describe an approach exploiting bilingual and multilingual pretrained MT models in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wei-Rui Chen , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Recent work in simultaneous machine translation is often trained with conventional full sentence translation corpora, leading to either excessive latency or necessity to anticipate as-yet-unarrived words, when dealing with a language pair…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-20 HyoJung Han , Seokchan Ahn , Yoonjung Choi , Insoo Chung , Sangha Kim , Kyunghyun Cho