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most citedMassively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation in the Wild: Findings and Challenges

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cs.CL2019

Re-Translation Strategies For Long Form, Simultaneous, Spoken Language Translation

Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry, Te I +3

We investigate the problem of simultaneous machine translation of long-form speech content. We target a continuous speech-to-text scenario, generating translated captions for a liv…

cs.CL2019★ 293 cited

Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation in the Wild: Findings and Challenges

Naveen Arivazhagan, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat +10

We introduce our efforts towards building a universal neural machine translation (NMT) system capable of translating between any language pair. We set a milestone towards this goal…

cs.CL2019★ 24 cited

Thinking Slow about Latency Evaluation for Simultaneous Machine Translation

Colin Cherry, George Foster

Simultaneous machine translation attempts to translate a source sentence before it is finished being spoken, with applications to translation of spoken language for live streaming…

cs.CL2019★ 1 cited

Reinforcement Learning based Curriculum Optimization for Neural Machine Translation

Gaurav Kumar, George Foster, Colin Cherry +1

We consider the problem of making efficient use of heterogeneous training data in neural machine translation (NMT). Specifically, given a training dataset with a sentence-level fea…

cs.LG2019★ 184 cited

Lingvo: a Modular and Scalable Framework for Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling

Jonathan Shen, Patrick Nguyen, Yonghui Wu +88

Lingvo is a Tensorflow framework offering a complete solution for collaborative deep learning research, with a particular focus towards sequence-to-sequence models. Lingvo models a…

cs.HC2019★ 14 cited

Shaping the Narrative Arc: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Collaborative Dialogue

Kory W. Mathewson, Pablo Samuel Castro, Colin Cherry +2

We consider the problem of designing an artificial agent capable of interacting with humans in collaborative dialogue to produce creative, engaging narratives. In this task, the go…