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Alignment with human preferences is an important step in developing accurate and safe large language models. This is no exception in machine translation (MT), where better handling of language nuances and context-specific variations leads…

Recently, several types of Japanese-to-English machine translation systems have been developed, but all of them require an initial process of rewriting the original text into easily translatable Japanese. Therefore these systems are…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Satoru Ikehara , Satoshi Shirai , Akio Yokoo , Hiromi Nakaiwa

Gender bias in machine translation (MT) systems poses significant challenges that often result in the reinforcement of harmful stereotypes. Especially in the labour domain where frequently occupations are inaccurately associated with…

Reordering poses a major challenge in machine translation (MT) between two languages with significant differences in word order. In this paper, we present a novel reordering approach utilizing sparse features based on dependency word pairs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Christian Hadiwinoto , Yang Liu , Hwee Tou Ng

Machine translation (MT) technology has facilitated our daily tasks by providing accessible shortcuts for gathering, elaborating and communicating information. However, it can suffer from biases that harm users and society at large. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Beatrice Savoldi , Marco Gaido , Luisa Bentivogli , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has shown drastic improvement in its quality when translating clean input, such as text from the news domain. However, existing studies suggest that NMT still struggles with certain kinds of input with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ryo Fujii , Masato Mita , Kaori Abe , Kazuaki Hanawa , Makoto Morishita , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

While machine translation has traditionally relied on large amounts of parallel corpora, a recent research line has managed to train both Neural Machine Translation (NMT) and Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems using monolingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Mikel Artetxe , Gorka Labaka , Eneko Agirre

We present a survey on multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), which has gained a lot of traction in the recent years. MNMT has been useful in improving translation quality as a result of translation knowledge transfer (transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Raj Dabre , Chenhui Chu , Anoop Kunchukuttan

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) learns to translate multiple language pairs with a single model, potentially improving both the accuracy and the memory-efficiency of deployed models. However, the heavy data imbalance between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Chunting Zhou , Daniel Levy , Xian Li , Marjan Ghazvininejad , Graham Neubig

This paper presents the open-system submission by the In2x research team for the WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task. Our submission focuses on Japanese-related translation tasks, aiming to explore a generalizable paradigm for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Lei Pang , Hanyi Mao , Quanjia Xiao , HaiXiao Liu , Xiangyi Li

Neural networks have become the state-of-the-art approach for machine translation (MT) in many languages. While linguistically-motivated tokenization techniques were shown to have significant effects on the performance of statistical MT, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Mai Oudah , Amjad Almahairi , Nizar Habash

Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation (UNMT) focuses on improving NMT results under the assumption there is no human translated parallel data, yet little work has been done so far in highlighting its advantages compared to supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Isidora Chara Tourni , Derry Wijaya

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

Using a vocabulary that is shared across languages is common practice in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT). In addition to its simple design, shared tokens play an important role in positive knowledge transfer, assuming that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Di Wu , Christof Monz

The rapid growth of machine translation (MT) systems has necessitated comprehensive studies to meta-evaluate evaluation metrics being used, which enables a better selection of metrics that best reflect MT quality. Unfortunately, most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Ananya B. Sai , Vignesh Nagarajan , Tanay Dixit , Raj Dabre , Anoop Kunchukuttan , Pratyush Kumar , Mitesh M. Khapra

Machine translation is the process of translating text from one language to another. In this paper, Statistical Machine Translation is done on Assamese and English language by taking their respective parallel corpus. A statistical phrase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Kalyanee Kanchan Baruah , Pranjal Das , Abdul Hannan , Shikhar Kr. Sarma

Many valid translations exist for a given sentence, yet machine translation (MT) is trained with a single reference translation, exacerbating data sparsity in low-resource settings. We introduce Simulated Multiple Reference Training (SMRT),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Huda Khayrallah , Brian Thompson , Matt Post , Philipp Koehn

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

This paper presents the NICT's participation to the WMT18 shared news translation task. We participated in the eight translation directions of four language pairs: Estonian-English, Finnish-English, Turkish-English and Chinese-English. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Benjamin Marie , Rui Wang , Atsushi Fujita , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita

Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent years. Millions of people are using it today in online translation systems and mobile applications in order to communicate across language barriers. The question naturally arises whether…