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48 results for Language translation

This paper uses LLMs and cycle consistency for better machine translation evaluation.

problem Evaluating translation quality and LLM capabilities without ground truth.
method Generate translation candidates, back-translate, and evaluate cycle consistency.
result Larger LLMs or more inference passes improve cycle consistency.

African languages are numerous, complex and low-resourced. The datasets required for machine translation are difficult to discover, and existing research is hard to reproduce. Minimal attention has been given to machine translation for African languages so there is scant research regarding the problems that arise when …

2019-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves impossibilities and positive results for universal machine translation.

problem Learning shared sentence representations across multiple language pairs.
method Formal proofs and analysis of natural generative processes.
result Lower bound on translation error and positive results under natural structure.

Out-of-vocabulary word translation is a major problem for the translation of low-resource languages that suffer from a lack of parallel training data. This paper evaluates the contributions of target-language context models towards the translation of OOV words, specifically in those cases where OOV translations are der…

2018-01-26abs ↗pdf ↗

The task of translating between programming languages differs from the challenge of translating natural languages in that programming languages are designed with a far more rigid set of structural and grammatical rules. Previous work has used a tree-to-tree encoder/decoder model to take advantage of the inherent tree s…

2018-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Introduces challenges and techniques for creating machine translation for indigenous languages.

problem Limited data for machine translation of indigenous languages.
method Introduction to challenges, concepts, and techniques for creating MT systems.
result Discussion of recent advances and open questions in NLP for these languages.

Speech Translation has always been about giving source text or audio input and waiting for system to give translated output in desired form. In this paper, we present the Acoustic Dialect Decoder (ADD) - a voice to voice ear-piece translation device. We introduce and survey the recent advances made in the field of Spee…

2016-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

L-Cool improves image and language translation by cooling low-density samples.

problem Improving translation performance on fringe samples in unsupervised domain translation.
method Performing Langevin dynamics to move low-density samples towards high-density areas.
result L-Cool enhances state-of-the-art methods in image and language translation tasks.

Word translation is a problem in machine translation that seeks to build models that recover word level correspondence between languages. Recent approaches to this problem have shown that word translation models can learned with very small seeding dictionaries, and even without any starting supervision. In this paper w…

2019-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Given that South African education is in crisis, strategies for improvement and sustainability of high-quality, up-to-date education must be explored. In the migration of education online, inclusion of machine translation for low-resourced local languages becomes necessary. This paper aims to spur the use of current ne…

2018-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Automates translating natural language to Verilog for digital design.

problem Manual translation of natural language specifications to Verilog is time-consuming and error-prone.
method Fine-tuned GPT-2 to derive Verilog from English, using a dataset of design tasks.
result GPT-2 achieved 94.8% correct translation across simple and abstract design tasks.

Improved robot navigation using multi-head attention for natural language instructions.

problem Improving robot navigation in unfamiliar environments.
method Proposes a multi-head attention mechanism blending layer in a neural network model.
result Significant performance gains in translating instructions for unseen environments.

We propose a statistical model for natural language that begins by considering language as a monoid, then representing it in complex matrices with a compatible translation invariant probability measure. We interpret the probability measure as arising via the Born rule from a translation invariant matrix product state.

2017-11-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Unlike major Western languages, most African languages are very low-resourced. Furthermore, the resources that do exist are often scattered and difficult to obtain and discover. As a result, the data and code for existing research has rarely been shared. This has lead a struggle to reproduce reported results, and few p…

2019-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This research explores the effects of various training settings on a Polish to English Statistical Machine Translation system for spoken language. Various elements of the TED, Europarl, and OPUS parallel text corpora were used as the basis for training of language models, for development, tuning and testing of the tran…

2015-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

This research investigates the Statistical Machine Translation approaches to translate speech in real time automatically. Such systems can be used in a pipeline with speech recognition and synthesis software in order to produce a real-time voice communication system between foreigners. We obtained three main data sets …

2015-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce Generative Neural Machine Translation (GNMT), a latent variable architecture which is designed to model the semantics of the source and target sentences. We modify an encoder-decoder translation model by adding a latent variable as a language agnostic representation which is encouraged to learn the meaning…

2018-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

A new memory-efficient sign language translation model reduces weight usage.

problem Memory constraints in real-time sign language translation.
method Variational Bayesian sequence-to-sequence network with Gaussian posterior and Indian Buffet Process prior.
result The proposed model achieves substantial weight compression without compromising performance.

To save manual effort, developers often translate programs from one programming language to another, instead of implementing it from scratch. Translating application program interfaces (APIs) used in one language to functionally equivalent ones available in another language is an important aspect of program translation…

2019-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a recurrent encoder-decoder deep neural network architecture that directly translates speech in one language into text in another. The model does not explicitly transcribe the speech into text in the source language, nor does it require supervision from the ground truth source language transcription during t…

2017-03-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We study unsupervised multilingual alignment, the problem of finding word-to-word translations between multiple languages without using any parallel data. One popular strategy is to reduce multilingual alignment to the much simplified bilingual setting, by picking one of the input languages as the pivot language that w…

2020-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds optimal vocabulary size for neural machine translation.

problem Imbalanced class distribution in language data affects NMT performance.
method Casts NMT as a classification task, analyzes vocabulary sizes, and tests multiple languages.
result Certain vocabulary sizes outperform others, explaining NMT performance.

Study measures gender bias in machine translation using multiple reference points.

problem Measuring and identifying gender bias in machine translation.
method Used an optimal non-biased translator, reference points from occupational statistics and survey.
result Found bias against both genders, but more against women, and found occupations have a greater effect than adjectives.

Transformer models can solve complex math problems with less data.

problem Solving complex symbolic mathematics problems with limited data.
method Pretrain transformer models on language translation tasks and fine-tune for symbolic math.
result Pretrained transformer models achieve comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art models with less data.

This study examines how the size and alignment of pretraining data affect the performance of large language models on downstream tasks.

problem Understanding how the size and alignment of pretraining data impact the performance of large language models on downstream tasks.
method Investigated the scaling behavior of large language models in a transfer learning setting, focusing on machine translation tasks.
result The size of the finetuning dataset and the distribution alignment between pretraining and downstream data significantly influence the scaling behavior of downstream performance.

LLMs translate natural language trading intents into correct option strategies using a domain-specific language.

problem Challenges in translating natural language trading intents into correct option strategies due to the complexity of option chain data.
method Introduce Option Query Language (OQL) as a domain-specific intermediate representation to abstract option markets into high-level primitives under grammatical rules. Use LLMs as semantic parsers and validate queries by an engine.
result Significantly improves execution accuracy and logical consistency over direct baselines.

Generalization and reliability of multilingual translation often highly depend on the amount of available parallel data for each language pair of interest. In this paper, we focus on zero-shot generalization---a challenging setup that tests models on translation directions they have not been optimized for at training t…

2019-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Although over 100 languages are supported by strong off-the-shelf machine translation systems, only a subset of them possess large annotated corpora for named entity recognition. Motivated by this fact, we leverage machine translation to improve annotation-projection approaches to cross-lingual named entity recognition…

2019-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

ATD measures language distance using neural models, recovering linguistic groupings.

problem Lack of a unified quantitative measure for cross-linguistic distance.
method Pretrained multilingual language models, attention mechanisms, optimal transport.
result ATD quantifies representational distance between languages, recovering linguistic groupings.

Paper proposes AXE loss for non-autoregressive machine translation, improving performance.

problem Challenges in training non-autoregressive models due to lack of autoregressive factors and cross entropy loss penalties.
method Proposes aligned cross entropy (AXE) loss function using a differentiable dynamic program for better word order alignment.
result AXE-based training improves performance on major WMT benchmarks and sets a new state of the art for non-autoregressive models.

Large mobility datasets collected from various sources have allowed us to observe, analyze, predict and solve a wide range of important urban challenges. In particular, studies have generated place representations (or embeddings) from mobility patterns in a similar manner to word embeddings to better understand the fun…

2019-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Cross-lingual document alignment aims to identify pairs of documents in two distinct languages that are of comparable content or translations of each other. In this paper, we exploit the signals embedded in URLs to label web documents at scale with an average precision of 94.5% across different language pairs. We mine …

2019-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗