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In document-level neural machine translation (DocNMT), multi-encoder approaches are common in encoding context and source sentences. Recent studies \cite{li-etal-2020-multi-encoder} have shown that the context encoder generates noise and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ramakrishna Appicharla , Baban Gain , Santanu Pal , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

We propose a neural machine translation architecture that models the surrounding text in addition to the source sentence. These models lead to better performance, both in terms of general translation quality and pronoun prediction, when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-19 Sebastien Jean , Stanislas Lauly , Orhan Firat , Kyunghyun Cho

Context-aware machine translation models are designed to leverage contextual information, but often fail to do so. As a result, they inaccurately disambiguate pronouns and polysemous words that require context for resolution. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Kayo Yin , Patrick Fernandes , Danish Pruthi , Aditi Chaudhary , André F. T. Martins , Graham Neubig

While recent advances in deep learning led to significant improvements in machine translation, neural machine translation is often still not able to continuously adapt to the environment. For humans, as well as for machine translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Jan Niehues

Despite significant improvements in enhancing the quality of translation, context-aware machine translation (MT) models underperform in many cases. One of the main reasons is that they fail to utilize the correct features from context when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Huy Hien Vu , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

In recent years, several studies on neural machine translation (NMT) have attempted to use document-level context by using a multi-encoder and two attention mechanisms to read the current and previous sentences to incorporate the context of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Hayahide Yamagishi , Mamoru Komachi

We present a new recurrent neural network topology to enhance state-of-the-art machine learning systems by incorporating a broader context. Our approach overcomes recent limitations with extended narratives through a multi-layered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Patrick Huber , Jan Niehues , Alex Waibel

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) can be improved by including document-level contextual information. For this purpose, we propose a hierarchical attention model to capture the context in a structured and dynamic manner. The model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Lesly Miculicich , Dhananjay Ram , Nikolaos Pappas , James Henderson

This review paper discusses how context has been used in neural machine translation (NMT) in the past two years (2017-2018). Starting with a brief retrospect on the rapid evolution of NMT models, the paper then reviews studies that evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Andrei Popescu-Belis

Standard context-aware neural machine translation (NMT) typically relies on parallel document-level data, exploiting both source and target contexts. Concatenation-based approaches in particular, still a strong baseline for document-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Harritxu Gete , Thierry Etchegoyhen

Neural machine translation (NMT) has arguably achieved human level parity when trained and evaluated at the sentence-level. Document-level neural machine translation has received less attention and lags behind its sentence-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Elman Mansimov , Gábor Melis , Lei Yu

Neural machine translation represents an exciting leap forward in translation quality. But what longstanding weaknesses does it resolve, and which remain? We address these questions with a challenge set approach to translation evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Pierre Isabelle , Colin Cherry , George Foster

Machine translation (MT) is an important task in natural language processing (NLP) as it automates the translation process and reduces the reliance on human translators. With the resurgence of neural networks, the translation quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Sameen Maruf , Fahimeh Saleh , Gholamreza Haffari

In translation, considering the document as a whole can help to resolve ambiguities and inconsistencies. In this paper, we propose a cross-sentence context-aware approach and investigate the influence of historical contextual information on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Longyue Wang , Zhaopeng Tu , Andy Way , Qun Liu

Despite increasing instances of machine translation (MT) systems including contextual information, the evidence for translation quality improvement is sparse, especially for discourse phenomena. Popular metrics like BLEU are not expressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Prathyusha Jwalapuram , Barbara Rychalska , Shafiq Joty , Dominika Basaj

One of the most popular methods for context-aware machine translation (MT) is to use separate encoders for the source sentence and context as multiple sources for one target sentence. Recent work has cast doubt on whether these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Matīss Rikters , Toshiaki Nakazawa

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in sentence-level machine translation, but scaling to document-level translation remains challenging, particularly in modeling long-range dependencies and discourse phenomena…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Miguel Moura Ramos , Patrick Fernandes , Sweta Agrawal , André F. T. Martins

Document-level neural machine translation has yielded attractive improvements. However, majority of existing methods roughly use all context sentences in a fixed scope. They neglect the fact that different source sentences need different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Xiaomian Kang , Yang Zhao , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Context-aware translation can be achieved by processing a concatenation of consecutive sentences with the standard Transformer architecture. This paper investigates the intuitive idea of providing the model with explicit information about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Lorenzo Lupo , Marco Dinarelli , Laurent Besacier

Historically, sign language machine translation has been posed as a sentence-level task: datasets consisting of continuous narratives are chopped up and presented to the model as isolated clips. In this work, we explore the limitations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Garrett Tanzer , Maximus Shengelia , Ken Harrenstien , David Uthus