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Document translation poses a challenge for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems. Most document-level NMT systems rely on meticulously curated sentence-level parallel data, assuming flawless extraction of text from documents along with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Benjamin Hsu , Xiaoyu Liu , Huayang Li , Yoshinari Fujinuma , Maria Nadejde , Xing Niu , Yair Kittenplon , Ron Litman , Raghavendra Pappagari

In this work, we present an AutoTM 2.0 framework for optimizing additively regularized topic models. Comparing to the previous version, this version includes such valuable improvements as novel optimization pipeline, LLM-based quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Maria Khodorchenko , Nikolay Butakov , Maxim Zuev , Denis Nasonov

Large language models (LLMs) have ushered in a new era for document-level machine translation (\textit{doc}-mt), yet their whole-document outputs challenge existing evaluation methods that assume sentence-by-sentence alignment. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Jiaxin Guo , Daimeng Wei , Yuanchang Luo , Xiaoyu Chen , Zhanglin Wu , Huan Yang , Hengchao Shang , Zongyao Li , Zhiqiang Rao , Jinlong Yang , Hao Yang

Probabilistic topic models like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been previously extended to the bilingual setting. A fundamental modeling assumption in several of these extensions is that the input corpora are in the form of document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Georgios Balikas , Massih-Reza Amini , Marianne Clausel

Topic models have been prevalent for decades to discover latent topics and infer topic proportions of documents in an unsupervised fashion. They have been widely used in various applications like text analysis and context recommendation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Xiaobao Wu , Thong Nguyen , Anh Tuan Luu

Document-level translation models are usually evaluated using general metrics such as BLEU, which are not informative about the benefits of context. Current work on context-aware evaluation, such as contrastive methods, only measure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Wafaa Mohammed , Vlad Niculae

A topic model is often formulated as a generative model that explains how each word of a document is generated given a set of topics and document-specific topic proportions. It is focused on capturing the word co-occurrences in a document…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Dongsheng Wang , Dandan Guo , He Zhao , Huangjie Zheng , Korawat Tanwisuth , Bo Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

We consider the problem of automatically generating textual paraphrases with modified attributes or properties, focusing on the setting without parallel data (Hu et al., 2017; Shen et al., 2017). This setting poses challenges for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Kevin Gimpel

As neural machine translation (NMT) systems become an important part of professional translator pipelines, a growing body of work focuses on combining NMT with terminologies. In many scenarios and particularly in cases of domain adaptation,…

Large language models (LLMs) have substantially advanced machine translation (MT), yet their effectiveness in translating web novels remains unclear. Existing benchmarks rely on surface-level metrics that fail to capture the distinctive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Enze Zhang , Jiaying Wang , Mengxi Xiao , Jifei Liu , Ziyan Kuang , Rui Dong , Eric Dong , Sophia Ananiadou , Min Peng , Qianqian Xie

Recently, Neural Topic Models (NTMs) inspired by variational autoencoders have obtained increasingly research interest due to their promising results on text analysis. However, it is usually hard for existing NTMs to achieve good document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-01 He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Viet Huynh , Trung Le , Wray Buntine

Translation quality evaluation plays a crucial role in machine translation. According to the input format, it is mainly separated into three tasks, i.e., reference-only, source-only and source-reference-combined. Recent methods, despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yu Wan , Dayiheng Liu , Baosong Yang , Haibo Zhang , Boxing Chen , Derek F. Wong , Lidia S. Chao

Recent advancements in Korean large language models (LLMs) have driven numerous benchmarks and evaluation methods, yet inconsistent protocols cause up to 10 p.p performance gaps across institutions. Overcoming these reproducibility gaps…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Hanwool Lee , Dasol Choi , Sooyong Kim , Ilgyun Jeong , Sangwon Baek , Guijin Son , Inseon Hwang , Naeun Lee , Seunghyeok Hong

The quality of machine translation systems has dramatically improved over the last decade, and as a result, evaluation has become an increasingly challenging problem. This paper describes our contribution to the WMT 2020 Metrics Shared…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Thibault Sellam , Amy Pu , Hyung Won Chung , Sebastian Gehrmann , Qijun Tan , Markus Freitag , Dipanjan Das , Ankur P. Parikh

Recently many efforts have been devoted to interpreting the black-box NMT models, but little progress has been made on metrics to evaluate explanation methods. Word Alignment Error Rate can be used as such a metric that matches human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Jierui Li , Lemao Liu , Huayang Li , Guanlin Li , Guoping Huang , Shuming Shi

Sentence-level (SL) machine translation (MT) has reached acceptable quality for many high-resourced languages, but not document-level (DL) MT, which is difficult to 1) train with little amount of DL data; and 2) evaluate, as the main…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Matīss Rikters , Ryokan Ri , Tong Li , Toshiaki Nakazawa

Standard automatic metrics, e.g. BLEU, are not reliable for document-level MT evaluation. They can neither distinguish document-level improvements in translation quality from sentence-level ones, nor identify the discourse phenomena that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yuchen Eleanor Jiang , Tianyu Liu , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Jian Yang , Haoyang Huang , Rico Sennrich , Ryan Cotterell , Mrinmaya Sachan , Ming Zhou

We introduce TASER (Translation Assessment via Systematic Evaluation and Reasoning), a metric that uses Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) for automated translation quality assessment. TASER harnesses the explicit reasoning capabilities of LRMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Monishwaran Maheswaran , Marco Carini , Christian Federmann , Tony Diaz

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models trained without stopword removal often produce topics with high posterior probabilities on uninformative words, obscuring the underlying corpus content. Even when canonical stopwords are manually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Angela Fan , Finale Doshi-Velez , Luke Miratrix

Neural machine translation (NMT), a new approach to machine translation, has achieved promising results comparable to those of traditional approaches such as statistical machine translation (SMT). Despite its recent success, NMT cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Zi Long , Takehito Utsuro , Tomoharu Mitsuhashi , Mikio Yamamoto