Neural machine translation: Challenges, progress and future

J Zhang, C Zong - Science China Technological Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Machine translation (MT) is a technique that leverages computers to translate
human languages automatically. Nowadays, neural machine translation (NMT) which …

STACL: Simultaneous translation with implicit anticipation and controllable latency using prefix-to-prefix framework

M Ma, L Huang, H Xiong, R Zheng, K Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Simultaneous translation, which translates sentences before they are finished, is useful in
many scenarios but is notoriously difficult due to word-order differences. While the …

Monotonic infinite lookback attention for simultaneous machine translation

N Arivazhagan, C Cherry, W Macherey… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Simultaneous machine translation begins to translate each source sentence before the
source speaker is finished speaking, with applications to live and streaming scenarios …

Monotonic multihead attention

X Ma, J Pino, J Cross, L Puzon, J Gu - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.12406, 2019 - arxiv.org
Simultaneous machine translation models start generating a target sequence before they
have encoded or read the source sequence. Recent approaches for this task either apply a …

SimulMT to SimulST: Adapting simultaneous text translation to end-to-end simultaneous speech translation

X Ma, J Pino, P Koehn - arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02048, 2020 - arxiv.org
Simultaneous text translation and end-to-end speech translation have recently made great
progress but little work has combined these tasks together. We investigate how to adapt …

Simpler and faster learning of adaptive policies for simultaneous translation

B Zheng, R Zheng, M Ma, L Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.01559, 2019 - arxiv.org
Simultaneous translation is widely useful but remains challenging. Previous work falls into
two main categories:(a) fixed-latency policies such as Ma et al.(2019) and (b) adaptive …

SIMULEVAL: An evaluation toolkit for simultaneous translation

X Ma, MJ Dousti, C Wang, J Gu, J Pino - arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.16193, 2020 - arxiv.org
Simultaneous translation on both text and speech focuses on a real-time and low-latency
scenario where the model starts translating before reading the complete source input …

Efficient wait-k models for simultaneous machine translation

M Elbayad, L Besacier, J Verbeek - arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08595, 2020 - arxiv.org
Simultaneous machine translation consists in starting output generation before the entire
input sequence is available. Wait-k decoders offer a simple but efficient approach for this …

Learning adaptive segmentation policy for simultaneous translation

R Zhang, C Zhang, Z He, H Wu… - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
Balancing accuracy and latency is a great challenge for simultaneous translation. To
achieve high accuracy, the model usually needs to wait for more streaming text before …

Simultaneous translation policies: From fixed to adaptive

B Zheng, K Liu, R Zheng, M Ma, H Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Adaptive policies are better than fixed policies for simultaneous translation, since they can
flexibly balance the tradeoff between translation quality and latency based on the current …