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With a large amount of parallel data, neural machine translation systems are able to deliver human-level performance for sentence-level translation. However, it is costly to label a large amount of parallel data by humans. In contrast,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Guokun Lai , Zihang Dai , Yiming Yang

The year 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) framework for analytic translation quality evaluation. The MQM error typology has been widely used by practitioners in the translation and localization…

Prior work on multilingual question answering has mostly focused on using large multilingual pre-trained language models (LM) to perform zero-shot language-wise learning: train a QA model on English and test on other languages. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Mihaela Bornea , Lin Pan , Sara Rosenthal , Radu Florian , Avirup Sil

How to achieve neural machine translation with limited parallel data? Existing techniques often rely on large-scale monolingual corpora, which is impractical for some low-resource languages. In this paper, we turn to connect several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Zhe Yang , Qingkai Fang , Yang Feng

The task of learning from only a few examples (called a few-shot setting) is of key importance and relevance to a real-world setting. For question answering (QA), the current state-of-the-art pre-trained models typically need fine-tuning on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Rakesh Chada , Pradeep Natarajan

Simultaneous interpretation, translation of the spoken word in real-time, is both highly challenging and physically demanding. Methods to predict interpreter confidence and the adequacy of the interpreted message have a number of potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Craig Stewart , Nikolai Vogler , Junjie Hu , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Graham Neubig

Machine translation is the process of translating text from one language to another. In this paper, Statistical Machine Translation is done on Assamese and English language by taking their respective parallel corpus. A statistical phrase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Kalyanee Kanchan Baruah , Pranjal Das , Abdul Hannan , Shikhar Kr. Sarma

Automatic evaluation metrics are essential for building multilingual translation systems. The common practice of evaluating these systems is averaging metric scores across languages, yet this is suspicious since metrics may suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jingxuan Liu , Zhi Qu , Jin Tei , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Lemao Liu , Taro Watanabe

The effectiveness of a statistical machine translation system (SMT) is very dependent upon the amount of parallel corpus used in the training phase. For low-resource language pairs there are not enough parallel corpora to build an accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Ebrahim Ansari , M. H. Sadreddini , Mostafa Sheikhalishahi , Richard Wallace , Fatemeh Alimardani

Machine Translation (MT) has developed rapidly since the release of Large Language Models and current MT evaluation is performed through comparison with reference human translations or by predicting quality scores from human-labeled data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Shun Wang , Ge Zhang , Han Wu , Tyler Loakman , Wenhao Huang , Chenghua Lin

In machine translation, we often try to collect resources to improve performance. However, most of the language pairs, such as Korean-Arabic and Korean-Vietnamese, do not have enough resources to train machine translation systems. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Gyu-Hyeon Choi , Jong-Hun Shin , Young-Kil Kim

One of the crucial tasks in computer science is the processing time reduction of various data types, i.e., images, which is important for different fields -- from medicine and logistics to virtual shopping. Compared to classical computers,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Marina O. Lisnichenko , Stanislav I. Protasov

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

We present a simple method to improve neural translation of a low-resource language pair using parallel data from a related, also low-resource, language pair. The method is based on the transfer method of Zoph et al., but whereas their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Toan Q. Nguyen , David Chiang

In this paper, we present our work on the creation of lexical resources for the Machine Translation between English and Hindi. We describes the development of phrase pair mappings for our experiments and the comparative performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Sreelekha S , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Large language models (LLMs), despite their ability to perform few-shot machine translation (MT), often lag behind dedicated MT systems trained on parallel corpora, which are crucial for high quality machine translation (MT). However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Deepon Halder , Thanmay Jayakumar , Raj Dabre

With little to no parallel data available for programming languages, unsupervised methods are well-suited to source code translation. However, the majority of unsupervised machine translation approaches rely on back-translation, a method…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Baptiste Roziere , Jie M. Zhang , Francois Charton , Mark Harman , Gabriel Synnaeve , Guillaume Lample

Query translation (QT) is a key component in cross-lingual information retrieval system (CLIR). With the help of deep learning, neural machine translation (NMT) has shown promising results on various tasks. However, NMT is generally trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Tianchi Bi , Liang Yao , Baosong Yang , Haibo Zhang , Weihua Luo , Boxing Chen

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach for Machine Translation (MT), and due to its success, it has absorbed the attention of many researchers in the field. In this paper, we study NMT model on Persian-English language pairs, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Mohaddeseh Bastan , Shahram Khadivi , Mohammad Mehdi Homayounpour

This study examines the cross-linguistic effectiveness of transfer learning for low-resource machine translation by fine-tuning models initially trained on typologically similar high-resource languages, using limited data from the target…

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