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This research article examines the effectiveness of various pretraining strategies for developing machine translation models tailored to low-resource languages. Although this work considers several low-resource languages, including…

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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…

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Recent work on multilingual neural machine translation reported competitive performance with respect to bilingual models and surprisingly good performance even on (zeroshot) translation directions not observed at training time. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Surafel M. Lakew , Quintino F. Lotito , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi , Marcello Federico

Neural approaches have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on machine translation but suffer from the high cost of collecting large scale parallel data. Thus, a lot of research has been conducted for neural machine translation (NMT) with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Rui Wang , Xu Tan , Renqian Luo , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

In recent years, transformer models have achieved great success in natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Most of the current state-of-the-art NLP results are achieved by using monolingual transformer models, where the model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Abrhalei Tela , Abraham Woubie , Ville Hautamaki

The scarcity of parallel data is a major obstacle for training high-quality machine translation systems for low-resource languages. Fortunately, some low-resource languages are linguistically related or similar to high-resource languages;…

Low-resource Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) is typically tasked with improving the translation performance on one or more language pairs with the aid of high-resource language pairs. In this paper, we propose two simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Gaurav Kumar , Philipp Koehn , Sanjeev Khudanpur

This paper presents an empirical study of two machine translation-based approaches for Vietnamese diacritic restoration problem, including phrase-based and neural-based machine translation models. This is the first work that applies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Thai-Hoang Pham , Xuan-Khoai Pham , Phuong Le-Hong

This paper presents ViDeBERTa, a new pre-trained monolingual language model for Vietnamese, with three versions - ViDeBERTa_xsmall, ViDeBERTa_base, and ViDeBERTa_large, which are pre-trained on a large-scale corpus of high-quality and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Cong Dao Tran , Nhut Huy Pham , Anh Nguyen , Truong Son Hy , Tu Vu

Unsupervised machine translation, which utilizes unpaired monolingual corpora as training data, has achieved comparable performance against supervised machine translation. However, it still suffers from data-scarce domains. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Cheonbok Park , Yunwon Tae , Taehee Kim , Soyoung Yang , Mohammad Azam Khan , Eunjeong Park , Jaegul Choo

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

An effective method to improve extremely low-resource neural machine translation is multilingual training, which can be improved by leveraging monolingual data to create synthetic bilingual corpora using the back-translation method. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Maali Tars , Andre Tättar , Mark Fišel

Neural machine translation requires large amounts of parallel training text to learn a reasonable-quality translation model. This is particularly inconvenient for language pairs for which enough parallel text is not available. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Poorya Zaremoodi , Gholamreza Haffari

Machine Translation has made impressive progress in recent years offering close to human-level performance on many languages, but studies have primarily focused on high-resource languages with broad online presence and resources. With the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Wan-Hua Her , Udo Kruschwitz

In recent years, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been shown to be more effective than phrase-based statistical methods, thus quickly becoming the state of the art in machine translation (MT). However, NMT systems are limited in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Surafel M. Lakew , Marcello Federico , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Prior work has proved that Translation memory (TM) can boost the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT). In contrast to existing work that uses bilingual corpus as TM and employs source-side similarity search for memory retrieval,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Deng Cai , Yan Wang , Huayang Li , Wai Lam , Lemao Liu

There are several approaches for improving neural machine translation for low-resource languages: Monolingual data can be exploited via pretraining or data augmentation; Parallel corpora on related language pairs can be used via parameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Stig-Arne Grönroos , Sami Virpioja , Mikko Kurimo

With the advent of the Transformer architecture, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) results have shown great improvement lately. However, results in low-resource conditions still lag behind in both bilingual and multilingual setups, due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Isidora Chara Tourni , Derry Wijaya

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable proficiency in Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) tasks; however, their effectiveness for low-resource languages like Vietnamese remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we fine-tune and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Anh Duc Nguyen , Hieu Minh Phi , Anh Viet Ngo , Long Hai Trieu , Thai Phuong Nguyen

Pretrained multilingual contextual representations have shown great success, but due to the limits of their pretraining data, their benefits do not apply equally to all language varieties. This presents a challenge for language varieties…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ethan C. Chau , Lucy H. Lin , Noah A. Smith