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Despite the growing variety of languages supported by existing multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) models, most of the world's languages are still being left behind. We aim to extend large-scale MNMT models to incorporate a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wen Lai , Viktor Hangya , Yingli Shen , Alexander Fraser

Although unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has achieved success in many language pairs, the copying problem, i.e., directly copying some parts of the input sentence as the translation, is common among distant language pairs,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yihong Liu , Alexandra Chronopoulou , Hinrich Schütze , Alexander Fraser

Building conversational speech recognition systems for new languages is constrained by the availability of utterances that capture user-device interactions. Data collection is both expensive and limited by the speed of manual transcription.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Surabhi Punjabi , Harish Arsikere , Sri Garimella

Generative adversarial networks have seen rapid development in recent years and have led to remarkable improvements in generative modelling of images. However, their application in the audio domain has received limited attention, and…

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

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) performs poor on the low-resource language pair $(X,Z)$, especially when $Z$ is a rare language. By introducing another rich language $Y$, we propose a novel triangular training architecture (TA-NMT) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shuo Ren , Wenhu Chen , Shujie Liu , Mu Li , Ming Zhou , Shuai Ma

In this paper we propose the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to generate artificial training data for machine learning tasks. The generation of artificial training data can be extremely useful in situations such as imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Fabio Henrique Kiyoiti dos Santos Tanaka , Claus Aranha

Data augmentation is an effective performance enhancement in neural machine translation (NMT) by generating additional bilingual data. In this paper, we propose a novel data augmentation enhancement strategy for neural machine translation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Sufeng Duan , Hai Zhao , Dongdong Zhang , Rui Wang

Machine translation (MT) is an important sub-field of natural language processing that aims to translate natural languages using computers. In recent years, end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved great success and has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhixing Tan , Shuo Wang , Zonghan Yang , Gang Chen , Xuancheng Huang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

We explore the impact of multi-source input strategies on machine translation (MT) quality, comparing GPT-4o, a large language model (LLM), with a traditional multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) system. Using intermediate language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lia Shahnazaryan , Patrick Simianer , Joern Wuebker

We investigate the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs) in speech dereverberation for robust speech recognition. GANs have been recently studied for speech enhancement to remove additive noises, but there still lacks of a work to…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Ke Wang , Junbo Zhang , Sining Sun , Yujun Wang , Fei Xiang , Lei Xie

Transformers have shown great promise as an approach to Neural Machine Translation (NMT) for low-resource languages. However, at the same time, transformer models remain difficult to optimize and require careful tuning of hyper-parameters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Elan van Biljon , Arnu Pretorius , Julia Kreutzer

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems are known to degrade when confronted with noisy data, especially when the system is trained only on clean data. In this paper, we show that augmenting training data with sentences containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Antonios Anastasopoulos , Alison Lui , Toan Nguyen , David Chiang

As a sequence-to-sequence generation task, neural machine translation (NMT) naturally contains intrinsic uncertainty, where a single sentence in one language has multiple valid counterparts in the other. However, the dominant methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Xiangpeng Wei , Heng Yu , Yue Hu , Rongxiang Weng , Luxi Xing , Weihua Luo

Pre-Training (PT) of text representations has been successfully applied to low-resource Neural Machine Translation (NMT). However, it usually fails to achieve notable gains (sometimes, even worse) on resource-rich NMT on par with its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Changtong Zan , Liang Ding , Li Shen , Yu Cao , Weifeng Liu , Dacheng Tao

To mitigate the negative effect of low quality training data on the performance of neural machine translation models, most existing strategies focus on filtering out harmful data before training starts. In this paper, we explore strategies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Xinyi Wang , Ankur Bapna , Melvin Johnson , Orhan Firat

Without real bilingual corpus available, unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (NMT) typically requires pseudo parallel data generated with the back-translation method for the model training. However, due to weak supervision, the pseudo…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shuo Ren , Zhirui Zhang , Shujie Liu , Ming Zhou , Shuai Ma

Recently, numbers of works shows that the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) can be improved to a certain extent with using visual information. However, most of these conclusions are drawn from the analysis of experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 ZhenHao Tang , XiaoBing Zhang , Zi Long , XiangHua Fu

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is the task of translating a text from one language to another with the use of a trained neural network. Several existing works aim at incorporating external information into NMT models to improve or control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Charles Brazier , Jean-Luc Rouas

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) aims at using one single model for multiple translation directions. Recent work applies non-autoregressive Transformers to improve the efficiency of MNMT, but requires expensive knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Chenyang Huang , Fei Huang , Zaixiang Zheng , Osmar R. Zaïane , Hao Zhou , Lili Mou