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Simultaneous machine translation (SimulMT) speeds up the translation process by starting to translate before the source sentence is completely available. It is difficult due to limited context and word order difference between languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Chih-Chiang Chang , Shun-Po Chuang , Hung-yi Lee

In simultaneous translation (SimulMT), the most widely used strategy is the wait-k policy thanks to its simplicity and effectiveness in balancing translation quality and latency. However, wait-k suffers from two major limitations: (a) it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Guangxu Xun , Mingbo Ma , Yuchen Bian , Xingyu Cai , Jiaji Huang , Renjie Zheng , Junkun Chen , Jiahong Yuan , Kenneth Church , Liang Huang

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) outputs the translation while receiving the source inputs, and hence needs to balance the received source information and translated target information to make a reasonable decision between waiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Shaolei Zhang , Shoutao Guo , Yang Feng

A popular approach to streaming speech translation is to employ a single offline model with a wait-k policy to support different latency requirements, which is simpler than training multiple online models with different latency constraints.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Biao Fu , Minpeng Liao , Kai Fan , Zhongqiang Huang , Boxing Chen , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) requires target tokens to be generated in real-time as streaming source tokens are consumed. Traditional approaches to SiMT typically require sophisticated architectures and extensive parameter…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Libo Zhao , Jing Li , Ziqian Zeng

Simultaneous translation is a task in which translation begins before the speaker has finished speaking, so it is important to decide when to start the translation process. However, deciding whether to read more input words or start to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yasumasa Kano , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

This paper addresses the problem of simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) by exploring two main concepts: (a) adaptive policies to learn a good trade-off between high translation quality and low latency; and (b) visual information to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Julia Ive , Andy Mingren Li , Yishu Miao , Ozan Caglayan , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

The black-box nature of end-to-end speech translation (E2E ST) systems makes it difficult to understand how source language inputs are being mapped to the target language. To solve this problem, we would like to simultaneously generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Motoi Omachi , Brian Yan , Siddharth Dalmia , Yuya Fujita , Shinji Watanabe

We introduce Delayed Streams Modeling (DSM), a flexible formulation for streaming, multimodal sequence-to-sequence learning. Sequence-to-sequence generation is often cast in an offline manner, where the model consumes the complete input…

Simultaneous translation (ST) outputs translation while receiving the source inputs, and hence requires a policy to determine whether to translate a target token or wait for the next source token. The major challenge of ST is that each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng

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

Streaming speech translation (StreamST) requires determining appropriate timing, known as policy, to generate translations while continuously receiving source speech inputs, balancing low latency with high translation quality. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Shoutao Guo , Xiang Li , Mengge Liu , Wei Chen , Yang Feng

Translating in real-time, a.k.a. simultaneous translation, outputs translation words before the input sentence ends, which is a challenging problem for conventional machine translation methods. We propose a neural machine translation (NMT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Jiatao Gu , Graham Neubig , Kyunghyun Cho , Victor O. K. Li

We study the application of active learning techniques to the translation of unbounded data streams via interactive neural machine translation. The main idea is to select, from an unbounded stream of source sentences, those worth to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Álvaro Peris , Francisco Casacuberta

Simultaneous translation (ST) starts translations synchronously while reading source sentences, and is used in many online scenarios. The previous wait-k policy is concise and achieved good results in ST. However, wait-k policy faces two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng , Liangyou Li

Recent work in simultaneous machine translation is often trained with conventional full sentence translation corpora, leading to either excessive latency or necessity to anticipate as-yet-unarrived words, when dealing with a language pair…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-20 HyoJung Han , Seokchan Ahn , Yoonjung Choi , Insoo Chung , Sangha Kim , Kyunghyun Cho

Having a sequence-to-sequence model which can operate in an online fashion is important for streaming applications such as Voice Search. Neural transducer is a streaming sequence-to-sequence model, but has shown a significant degradation in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Tara N. Sainath , Chung-Cheng Chiu , Rohit Prabhavalkar , Anjuli Kannan , Yonghui Wu , Patrick Nguyen , Zhifeng Chen

Recently, a few novel streaming attention-based sequence-to-sequence (S2S) models have been proposed to perform online speech recognition with linear-time decoding complexity. However, in these models, the decisions to generate tokens are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Hirofumi Inaguma , Yashesh Gaur , Liang Lu , Jinyu Li , Yifan Gong

Simultaneous machine translation attempts to translate a source sentence before it is finished being spoken, with applications to translation of spoken language for live streaming and conversation. Since simultaneous systems trade quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Colin Cherry , George Foster

Simultaneous machine translation models start generating a target sequence before they have encoded or read the source sequence. Recent approaches for this task either apply a fixed policy on a state-of-the art Transformer model, or a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Xutai Ma , Juan Pino , James Cross , Liezl Puzon , Jiatao Gu