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Recently, there has been a surge in research in multimodal machine translation (MMT), where additional modalities such as images are used to improve translation quality of textual systems. A particular use for such multimodal systems is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Veneta Haralampieva , Ozan Caglayan , Lucia Specia

While monolingual data has been shown to be useful in improving bilingual neural machine translation (NMT), effectively and efficiently leveraging monolingual data for Multilingual NMT (MNMT) systems is a less explored area. In this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yiren Wang , ChengXiang Zhai , Hany Hassan Awadalla

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

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

Previous studies have shown that neural machine translation (NMT) models can benefit from explicitly modeling translated (Past) and untranslated (Future) to groups of translated and untranslated contents through parts-to-wholes assignment.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Zaixiang Zheng , Shujian Huang , Zhaopeng Tu , Xin-Yu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Multilingual machine translation addresses the task of translating between multiple source and target languages. We propose task-specific attention models, a simple but effective technique for improving the quality of sequence-to-sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Graeme Blackwood , Miguel Ballesteros , Todd Ward

This paper reports the Machine Translation (MT) systems submitted by the IIITT team for the English->Marathi and English->Irish language pairs LoResMT 2021 shared task. The task focuses on getting exceptional translations for rather…

Large Language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable abilities in understanding complex texts, offering a promising path towards human-like translation performance. However, this study reveals the misalignment between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yichong Huang , Baohang Li , Xiaocheng Feng , Chengpeng Fu , Wenshuai Huo , Ting Liu , Bing Qin

Unsupervised machine translation---i.e., not assuming any cross-lingual supervision signal, whether a dictionary, translations, or comparable corpora---seems impossible, but nevertheless, Lample et al. (2018) recently proposed a fully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Anders Søgaard , Sebastian Ruder , Ivan Vulić

In simultaneous machine translation, the objective is to determine when to produce a partial translation given a continuous stream of source words, with a trade-off between latency and quality. We propose a neural machine translation (NMT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Patrick Wilken , Tamer Alkhouli , Evgeny Matusov , Pavel Golik

In this paper, we describe our system for the WMT 24 shared task of Low-Resource Indic Language Translation. We consider eng $\leftrightarrow$ {as, kha, lus, mni} as participating language pairs. In this shared task, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Pramit Sahoo , Maharaj Brahma , Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

Simultaneous translation involves translating a sentence before the speaker's utterance is completed in order to realize real-time understanding in multiple languages. This task is significantly more challenging than the general full…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Aizhan Imankulova , Masahiro Kaneko , Tosho Hirasawa , Mamoru Komachi

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

Non-Autoregressive machine Translation (NAT) models have demonstrated significant inference speedup but suffer from inferior translation accuracy. The common practice to tackle the problem is transferring the Autoregressive machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yongchang Hao , Shilin He , Wenxiang Jiao , Zhaopeng Tu , Michael Lyu , Xing Wang

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to improve translation quality by equipping the source sentence with its corresponding image. Despite the promising performance, MMT models still suffer the problem of input degradation: models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Baijun Ji , Tong Zhang , Yicheng Zou , Bojie Hu , Si Shen

In this paper, we describe our end-to-end multilingual speech translation system submitted to the IWSLT 2021 evaluation campaign on the Multilingual Speech Translation shared task. Our system is built by leveraging transfer learning across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yun Tang , Hongyu Gong , Xian Li , Changhan Wang , Juan Pino , Holger Schwenk , Naman Goyal

This paper presents the technical solution proposed by Huawei Translation Service Center (HW-TSC) for the "End-to-End Document Image Machine Translation for Complex Layouts" competition at the 19th International Conference on Document…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhanglin Wu , Tengfei Song , Ning Xie , Weidong Zhang , Pengfei Li , Shuang Wu , Chong Li , Junhao Zhu , Hao Yang

We present a survey on multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), which has gained a lot of traction in the recent years. MNMT has been useful in improving translation quality as a result of knowledge transfer. MNMT is more promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Raj Dabre , Chenhui Chu , Anoop Kunchukuttan

This report describes our VolcTrans system for the WMT22 shared task on large-scale multilingual machine translation. We participated in the unconstrained track which allows the use of external resources. Our system is a transformerbased…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Xian Qian , Kai Hu , Jiaqiang Wang , Yifeng Liu , Xingyuan Pan , Jun Cao , Mingxuan Wang

Machine translation (MT) is a technique that leverages computers to translate human languages automatically. Nowadays, neural machine translation (NMT) which models direct mapping between source and target languages with deep neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong