Neural machine translation for low-resource languages: A survey

S Ranathunga, ESA Lee, M Prifti Skenduli… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has seen tremendous growth in the last ten years since
the early 2000s and has already entered a mature phase. While considered the most widely …

A survey of multilingual neural machine translation

R Dabre, C Chu, A Kunchukuttan - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
We present a survey on multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), which has gained
a lot of traction in recent years. MNMT has been useful in improving translation quality as a …

Balancing training for multilingual neural machine translation

X Wang, Y Tsvetkov, G Neubig - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06748, 2020 - arxiv.org
When training multilingual machine translation (MT) models that can translate to/from
multiple languages, we are faced with imbalanced training sets: some languages have …

A survey on low-resource neural machine translation

R Wang, X Tan, R Luo, T Qin, TY Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04239, 2021 - arxiv.org
Neural approaches have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on machine translation but
suffer from the high cost of collecting large scale parallel data. Thus, a lot of research has …

Optimizing data usage via differentiable rewards

X Wang, H Pham, P Michel… - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
To acquire a new skill, humans learn better and faster if a tutor, based on their current
knowledge level, informs them of how much attention they should pay to particular content or …

Knowledge distillation for multilingual unsupervised neural machine translation

H Sun, R Wang, K Chen, M Utiyama, E Sumita… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has recently achieved remarkable results
for several language pairs. However, it can only translate between a single language pair …

Active learning approaches to enhancing neural machine translation

Y Zhao, RH Zhang, S Zhou, Z Zhang - Findings of the Association …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
Active learning is an efficient approach for mitigating data dependency when training neural
machine translation (NMT) models. In this paper, we explore new training frameworks by …

Towards a better understanding of variations in zero-shot neural machine translation performance

S Tan, C Monz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10385, 2023 - arxiv.org
Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) facilitates knowledge sharing but often
suffers from poor zero-shot (ZS) translation qualities. While prior work has explored the …

Bridging linguistic typology and multilingual machine translation with multi-view language representations

A Oncevay, B Haddow, A Birch - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.14923, 2020 - arxiv.org
Sparse language vectors from linguistic typology databases and learned embeddings from
tasks like multilingual machine translation have been investigated in isolation, without …

Meta back-translation

H Pham, X Wang, Y Yang, G Neubig - arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07847, 2021 - arxiv.org
Back-translation is an effective strategy to improve the performance of Neural Machine
Translation~(NMT) by generating pseudo-parallel data. However, several recent works have …