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Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models achieve their best performance when large sets of parallel data are used for training. Consequently, techniques for augmenting the training set have become popular recently. One of these methods is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Alberto Poncelas , Maja Popovic , Dimitar Shterionov , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Andy Way

Recent work in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has shown significant quality gains from noised-beam decoding during back-translation, a method to generate synthetic parallel data. We show that the main role of such synthetic noise is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Isaac Caswell , Ciprian Chelba , David Grangier

Back-translation is an effective strategy to improve the performance of Neural Machine Translation~(NMT) by generating pseudo-parallel data. However, several recent works have found that better translation quality of the pseudo-parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Hieu Pham , Xinyi Wang , Yiming Yang , Graham Neubig

An effective method to improve neural machine translation with monolingual data is to augment the parallel training corpus with back-translations of target language sentences. This work broadens the understanding of back-translation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Sergey Edunov , Myle Ott , Michael Auli , David Grangier

Neural Machine Translation has achieved state-of-the-art performance for several language pairs using a combination of parallel and synthetic data. Synthetic data is often generated by back-translating sentences randomly sampled from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Marzieh Fadaee , Christof Monz

A prerequisite for training corpus-based machine translation (MT) systems -- either Statistical MT (SMT) or Neural MT (NMT) -- is the availability of high-quality parallel data. This is arguably more important today than ever before, as NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Alberto Poncelas , Dimitar Shterionov , Andy Way , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Peyman Passban

Despite impressive progress in high-resource settings, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) still struggles in low-resource and out-of-domain scenarios, often failing to match the quality of phrase-based translation. We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Xing Niu , Michael Denkowski , Marine Carpuat

Back Translation (BT) is widely used in the field of machine translation, as it has been proved effective for enhancing translation quality. However, BT mainly improves the translation of inputs that share a similar style (to be more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Daimeng Wei , Zhanglin Wu , Hengchao Shang , Zongyao Li , Minghan Wang , Jiaxin Guo , Xiaoyu Chen , Zhengzhe Yu , Hao Yang

Back-translation - data augmentation by translating target monolingual data - is a crucial component in modern neural machine translation (NMT). In this work, we reformulate back-translation in the scope of cross-entropy optimization of an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Miguel Graça , Yunsu Kim , Julian Schamper , Shahram Khadivi , Hermann Ney

In neural machine translation (NMT), monolingual data in the target language are usually exploited through a method so-called "back-translation" to synthesize additional training parallel data. The synthetic data have been shown helpful to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Benjamin Marie , Atsushi Fujita

Back translation (BT) has been widely used and become one of standard techniques for data augmentation in Neural Machine Translation (NMT), BT has proven to be helpful for improving the performance of translation effectively, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Hongzheng Li , Heyan Huang

Improving neural machine translation (NMT) models using the back-translations of the monolingual target data (synthetic parallel data) is currently the state-of-the-art approach for training improved translation systems. The quality of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Idris Abdulmumin , Bashir Shehu Galadanci , Abubakar Isa

Machine translation (MT) has benefited from using synthetic training data originating from translating monolingual corpora, a technique known as backtranslation. Combining backtranslated data from different sources has led to better results…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Xabier Soto , Dimitar Shterionov , Alberto Poncelas , Andy Way

Data selection has proven its merit for improving Neural Machine Translation (NMT), when applied to authentic data. But the benefit of using synthetic data in NMT training, produced by the popular back-translation technique, raises the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Alberto Poncelas , Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger , Andy Way

Neural Machine Translation (MT) has radically changed the way systems are developed. A major difference with the previous generation (Phrase-Based MT) is the way monolingual target data, which often abounds, is used in these two paradigms.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Franck Burlot , François Yvon

Back-translation (BT) of target monolingual corpora is a widely used data augmentation strategy for neural machine translation (NMT), especially for low-resource language pairs. To improve effectiveness of the available BT data, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Sahana Ramnath , Melvin Johnson , Abhirut Gupta , Aravindan Raghuveer

While synthetic bilingual corpora have demonstrated their effectiveness in low-resource neural machine translation (NMT), adding more synthetic data often deteriorates translation performance. In this work, we propose alternated training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Rui Jiao , Zonghan Yang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

In this paper,we explore the application of Back translation (BT) as a semi-supervised technique to enhance Neural Machine Translation(NMT) models for the English-Luganda language pair, specifically addressing the challenges faced by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Richard Kimera , Dongnyeong Heo , Daniela N. Rim , Heeyoul Choi

Pre-training (PT) and back-translation (BT) are two simple and powerful methods to utilize monolingual data for improving the model performance of neural machine translation (NMT). This paper takes the first step to investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Xuebo Liu , Longyue Wang , Derek F. Wong , Liang Ding , Lidia S. Chao , Shuming Shi , Zhaopeng Tu

The field of unsupervised machine translation has seen significant advancement from the marriage of the Transformer and the back-translation algorithm. The Transformer is a powerful generative model, and back-translation leverages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Benjamin Brimacombe , Jiawei Zhou
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