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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

In this paper, we introduce a hybrid search for attention-based neural machine translation (NMT). A target phrase learned with statistical MT models extends a hypothesis in the NMT beam search when the attention of the NMT model focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Leonard Dahlmann , Evgeny Matusov , Pavel Petrushkov , Shahram Khadivi

In spite of the recent success of neural machine translation (NMT) in standard benchmarks, the lack of large parallel corpora poses a major practical problem for many language pairs. There have been several proposals to alleviate this issue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre , Kyunghyun Cho

Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (UNMT) focuses on improving NMT results under the assumption there is no human translated parallel data, yet little work has been done so far in highlighting its advantages compared to supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Isidora Chara Tourni , Derry Wijaya

A neural machine translation (NMT) system is expensive to train, especially with high-resource settings. As the NMT architectures become deeper and wider, this issue gets worse and worse. In this paper, we aim to improve the efficiency of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Xuebo Liu , Houtim Lai , Derek F. Wong , Lidia S. Chao

We present an open-source toolkit for neural machine translation (NMT). The new toolkit is mainly based on vaulted Transformer (Vaswani et al., 2017) along with many other improvements detailed below, in order to create a self-contained,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Nguyen Hoang Quan , Nguyen Thanh Dat , Nguyen Hoang Minh Cong , Nguyen Van Vinh , Ngo Thi Vinh , Nguyen Phuong Thai , Tran Hong Viet

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

Semantic parsing models with applications in task oriented dialog systems require efficient sequence to sequence (seq2seq) architectures to be run on-device. To this end, we propose a projection based encoder-decoder model referred to as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-29 Arun Kandoor

Neural machine translation~(NMT) is ineffective for zero-resource languages. Recent works exploring the possibility of unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) with only monolingual data can achieve promising results. However, there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Mingxuan Wang , Hongxiao Bai , Hai Zhao , Lei Li

We introduce our efforts towards building a universal neural machine translation (NMT) system capable of translating between any language pair. We set a milestone towards this goal by building a single massively multilingual NMT model…

Fine-tuning pre-trained Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models is the dominant approach for adapting to new languages and domains. However, fine-tuning requires adapting and maintaining a separate model for each target task. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Ankur Bapna , Naveen Arivazhagan , Orhan Firat

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has seen a tremendous spurt of growth in less than ten years, and has already entered a mature phase. While considered as the most widely used solution for Machine Translation, its performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Surangika Ranathunga , En-Shiun Annie Lee , Marjana Prifti Skenduli , Ravi Shekhar , Mehreen Alam , Rishemjit Kaur

We introduce Generative Neural Machine Translation (GNMT), a latent variable architecture which is designed to model the semantics of the source and target sentences. We modify an encoder-decoder translation model by adding a latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Harshil Shah , David Barber

The dominant neural machine translation (NMT) models apply unified attentional encoder-decoder neural networks for translation. Traditionally, the NMT decoders adopt recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to perform translation in a left-toright…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Xiangwen Zhang , Jinsong Su , Yue Qin , Yang Liu , Rongrong Ji , Hongji Wang

While neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved state-of-the-art translation performance, it is unable to capture the alignment between the input and output during the translation process. The lack of alignment in NMT models leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Jiacheng Zhang , Huanbo Luan , Maosong Sun , FeiFei Zhai , Jingfang Xu , Yang Liu

The addition of syntax-aware decoding in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems requires an effective tree-structured neural network, a syntax-aware attention model and a language generation model that is sensitive to sentence structure.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Jetic Gū , Hassan S. Shavarani , Anoop Sarkar

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been proven to achieve impressive results. The NMT system translation results depend strongly on the size and quality of parallel corpora. Nevertheless, for many language pairs, no rich-resource parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Jinyi Zhang , Tadahiro Matsumoto

While modern machine translation has relied on large parallel corpora, a recent line of work has managed to train Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems from monolingual corpora only (Artetxe et al., 2018c; Lample et al., 2018). Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre

Document-level Neural Machine Translation (DocNMT) has been proven crucial for handling discourse phenomena by introducing document-level context information. One of the most important directions is to input the whole document directly to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zihan Liu , Zewei Sun , Shanbo Cheng , Shujian Huang , Mingxuan Wang

Morphological modeling in neural machine translation (NMT) is a promising approach to achieving open-vocabulary machine translation for morphologically-rich languages. However, existing methods such as sub-word tokenization and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Antoine Nzeyimana