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48 results for universal machine translation

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.

We introduce and describe the results of a novel shared task on bandit learning for machine translation. The task was organized jointly by Amazon and Heidelberg University for the first time at the Second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2017). The goal of the task is to encourage research on learning machine tra…

2017-07-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Kernel methods have been widely applied to machine learning and other questions of approximating an unknown function from its finite sample data. To ensure arbitrary accuracy of such approximation, various denseness conditions are imposed on the selected kernel. This note contributes to the study of universal, characte…

2013-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Study classifies and characterizes translators in hyperbolic static universe.

problem Classifying and characterizing translators in hyperbolic static universe.
method Classified and characterized translators foliated by horospheres and rotationally invariant ones, both space-like and time-like.
result Obtained a characterization of the bowl and certain translators foliated by horospheres.

Study shows only grim reaper cylinder for certain self-translating surfaces.

problem Characterizing self-translating surfaces in 3D space.
method Used parabolicity in a weighted setting and universally L-superharmonic functions.
result Characterized the grim reaper cylinder as the only finite entropy self-translating 2-surface in R^3 of width π and bounded from below.

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 ↗

New method uses scalars to approximate physics functions.

problem Designing neural networks that respect physical symmetries.
method Parameterizing polynomial functions equivariant to various symmetries using scalars.
result Universal approximation of polynomial functions under various symmetries using scalars.

GNP models predictive correlations and outperforms NPs.

problem Training and understanding of Neural Processes.
method Proposed a new model, Gaussian Neural Process (GNP), which incorporates translation equivariance and provides universal approximation guarantees.
result Demonstrates encouraging performance and provides universal approximation guarantees.

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to maximize the translation performance. The models proposed recently for neural ma…

2014-09-01abs ↗pdf ↗

This is a lecture note for the course DS-GA 3001 <Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representation> at the Center for Data Science , New York University in Fall, 2015. As the name of the course suggests, this lecture note introduces readers to a neural network based approach to natural language understand…

2015-11-24abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

West Frisian lemmatizer, POS tagger, and parser created.

problem Creating accurate lemmatization, POS tagging, and dependency parsing for West Frisian.
method Using a corpus of 44,714 words annotated according to Universal Dependency version 2. Applying Dutch POS tags and morphological/syntactic annotations to create Frisian translations.
result Significant improvement in lemma accuracy compared to default parameters.

The paper introduces a method to assess machine translation quality with confidence intervals.

problem Evaluating the uncertainty and quality of machine translation.
method Utilizes conformal predictive distributions to produce prediction intervals with guaranteed coverage.
result The method outperforms a baseline on six language pairs in terms of coverage and sharpness.

We present a method for translating music across musical instruments, genres, and styles. This method is based on a multi-domain wavenet autoencoder, with a shared encoder and a disentangled latent space that is trained end-to-end on waveforms. Employing a diverse training dataset and large net capacity, the domain-ind…

2018-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) sequentially process data by updating their state with each new data point, and have long been the de facto choice for sequence modeling tasks. However, their inherently sequential computation makes them slow to train. Feed-forward and convolutional architectures have recently been show…

2018-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a neural machine translation architecture that models the surrounding text in addition to the source sentence. These models lead to better performance, both in terms of general translation quality and pronoun prediction, when trained on small corpora, although this improvement largely disappears when trained…

2017-04-17abs ↗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 ↗

Paper studies eigenvalues of a specific operator on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Eigenvalues of a specific operator on Riemannian manifolds.
method Established a general formula for eigenvalues and derived estimates.
result Obtained universal inequalities for the eigenvalues on translating solitons.

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.

We study the geometry of the Margulis region associated with an irrational screw translation gg acting on the 4-dimensional real hyperbolic space. This is an invariant domain with the parabolic fixed point of gg on its boundary which plays the role of an invariant horoball for a translation in dimensions 3\leq 3. Th…

2013-04-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Generalized algorithm for translation and scale-invariant prediction.

problem Sequential prediction with expert advice, focusing on translation and scale invariance.
method Designing a generalized online algorithm using the universal prediction perspective to compete against a generic class of expert selection strategies.
result No preliminary knowledge of loss sequences is required; performance bounds are stable under arbitrary scalings and translations.

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 ↗

Neural machine translation aims at building a single large neural network that can be trained to maximize translation performance. The encoder-decoder architecture with an attention mechanism achieves a translation performance comparable to the existing state-of-the-art phrase-based systems on the task of English-to-Fr…

2016-08-16abs ↗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 ↗

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 ↗

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.

In this paper, we present Neural Phrase-based Machine Translation (NPMT). Our method explicitly models the phrase structures in output sequences using Sleep-WAke Networks (SWAN), a recently proposed segmentation-based sequence modeling method. To mitigate the monotonic alignment requirement of SWAN, we introduce a new …

2017-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We present the first real-world application of methods for improving neural machine translation (NMT) with human reinforcement, based on explicit and implicit user feedback collected on the eBay e-commerce platform. Previous work has been confined to simulation experiments, whereas in this paper we work with real logge…

2018-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved machine translation with INT8 hardware using a novel training method.

problem Training accurate machine translation models with limited hardware precision.
method Convert all Transformer matrix multiplications to 8-bit integer (INT8) without sacrificing accuracy.
result INT8 Transformer models achieve BLEU scores 99.3% to 100% relative to FP32 models.