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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 the current machine translation (MT) landscape, the Transformer architecture stands out as the gold standard, especially for high-resource language pairs. This research delves into its efficacy for low-resource language pairs including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Séamus Lankford

Machine Translation (MT) is a zone of concentrate in Natural Language processing which manages the programmed interpretation of human language, starting with one language then onto the next by the PC. Having a rich research history…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Siddhant Srivastava , Ritu Tiwari

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) for low-resource languages is still a challenging task in front of NLP researchers. In this work, we deploy a standard data augmentation methodology by back-translation to a new language translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Kung Yin Hong , Lifeng Han , Riza Batista-Navarro , Goran Nenadic

Neural machine translation (NMT) has significantly improved the quality of automatic translation models. One of the main challenges in current systems is the translation of rare words. We present a generic approach to address this weakness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ngoc-Quan Pham , Jan Niehues , Alex Waibel

Retrieval-augmented Neural Machine Translation models have been successful in many translation scenarios. Different from previous works that make use of mutually similar but redundant translation memories~(TMs), we propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Xin Cheng , Shen Gao , Lemao Liu , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Multilingual neural machine translation models (MNMT) yield state-of-the-art performance when evaluated on data from a domain and language pair seen at training time. However, when a MNMT model is used to translate under domain shift or to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Wen Lai , Alexandra Chronopoulou , Alexander Fraser

Without real bilingual corpus available, unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (NMT) typically requires pseudo parallel data generated with the back-translation method for the model training. However, due to weak supervision, the pseudo…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shuo Ren , Zhirui Zhang , Shujie Liu , Ming Zhou , Shuai Ma

For machine translation to tackle discourse phenomena, models must have access to extra-sentential linguistic context. There has been recent interest in modelling context in neural machine translation (NMT), but models have been principally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Rachel Bawden , Rico Sennrich , Alexandra Birch , Barry Haddow

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

Recent works have proven the effectiveness of k-nearest-neighbor machine translation(a.k.a kNN-MT) approaches to produce remarkable improvement in cross-domain translations. However, these models suffer from heavy retrieve overhead on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiangyu Shi , Yunlong Liang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen

Neural machine translation (NMT), a new approach to machine translation, has achieved promising results comparable to those of traditional approaches such as statistical machine translation (SMT). Despite its recent success, NMT cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Zi Long , Takehito Utsuro , Tomoharu Mitsuhashi , Mikio Yamamoto

We conduct an empirical study of neural machine translation (NMT) for truly low-resource languages, and propose a training curriculum fit for cases when both parallel training data and compute resource are lacking, reflecting the reality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Garry Kuwanto , Afra Feyza Akyürek , Isidora Chara Tourni , Siyang Li , Alexander Gregory Jones , Derry Wijaya

Unsupervised cross-lingual pretraining has achieved strong results in neural machine translation (NMT), by drastically reducing the need for large parallel data. Most approaches adapt masked-language modeling (MLM) to sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Christos Baziotis , Ivan Titov , Alexandra Birch , Barry Haddow

In this paper, we focus on the domain-specific translation with low resources, where in-domain parallel corpora are scarce or nonexistent. One common and effective strategy for this case is exploiting in-domain monolingual data with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Hao-Ran Wei , Zhirui Zhang , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo

Compared to sentence-level systems, document-level neural machine translation (NMT) models produce a more consistent output across a document and are able to better resolve ambiguities within the input. There are many works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Christian Herold , Hermann Ney

Neural machine translation (NMT) often makes mistakes in translating low-frequency content words that are essential to understanding the meaning of the sentence. We propose a method to alleviate this problem by augmenting NMT systems with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Philip Arthur , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

Thai is a low-resource language, so it is often the case that data is not available in sufficient quantities to train an Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model which perform to a high level of quality. In addition, the Thai script does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Alberto Poncelas , Wichaya Pidchamook , Chao-Hong Liu , James Hadley , Andy Way

In this paper we provide the largest published comparison of translation quality for phrase-based SMT and neural machine translation across 30 translation directions. For ten directions we also include hierarchical phrase-based MT.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt , Tomasz Dwojak , Hieu Hoang

Fine-tuning and testing a multilingual large language model is expensive and challenging for low-resource languages (LRLs). While previous studies have predicted the performance of natural language processing (NLP) tasks using machine…