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20182023
most citedAchieving Human Parity on Automatic Chinese to English News Translation

566 citations · 883 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cs.CL2023

On the Off-Target Problem of Zero-Shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Liang Chen, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang +2

While multilingual neural machine translation has achieved great success, it suffers from the off-target issue, where the translation is in the wrong language. This problem is more…

cs.CL2023

One-stop Training of Multiple Capacity Models

Lan Jiang, Haoyang Huang, Dongdong Zhang +2

Training models with varying capacities can be advantageous for deploying them in different scenarios. While high-capacity models offer better performance, low-capacity models requ…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Discourse Centric Evaluation of Machine Translation with a Densely Annotated Parallel Corpus

Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Tianyu Liu, Shuming Ma +3

Several recent papers claim human parity at sentence-level Machine Translation (MT), especially in high-resource languages. Thus, in response, the MT community has, in part, shifte…

cs.CL2023

Target-Agnostic Gender-Aware Contrastive Learning for Mitigating Bias in Multilingual Machine Translation

Minwoo Lee, Hyukhun Koh, Kang-il Lee +3

Gender bias is a significant issue in machine translation, leading to ongoing research efforts in developing bias mitigation techniques. However, most works focus on debiasing bili…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

Not All Languages Are Created Equal in LLMs: Improving Multilingual Capability by Cross-Lingual-Thought Prompting

Haoyang Huang, Tianyi Tang, Dongdong Zhang +4

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive multilingual capability, but their performance varies substantially across different languages. In this work, we introduce a sim…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Chain-of-Dictionary Prompting Elicits Translation in Large Language Models

Hongyuan Lu, Haoran Yang, Haoyang Huang +3

Large language models (LLMs) have shown surprisingly good performance in multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) even when trained without parallel data. Yet, despite the fa…

cs.CL2023

On the Pareto Front of Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Liang Chen, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang +2

In this work, we study how the performance of a given direction changes with its sampling ratio in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT). By training over 200 multilingual…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Are More Layers Beneficial to Graph Transformers?

Haiteng Zhao, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang +2

Despite that going deep has proven successful in many neural architectures, the existing graph transformers are relatively shallow. In this work, we explore whether more layers are…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

HanoiT: Enhancing Context-aware Translation via Selective Context

Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma +7

Context-aware neural machine translation aims to use the document-level context to improve translation quality. However, not all words in the context are helpful. The irrelevant or…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

GanLM: Encoder-Decoder Pre-training with an Auxiliary Discriminator

Jian Yang, Shuming Ma, Li Dong +7

Pre-trained models have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP). However, existing pre-training methods underutilize the benefits of language understanding…

cs.CL2022

Advancing Multilingual Pre-training: TRIP Triangular Document-level Pre-training for Multilingual Language Models

Hongyuan Lu, Haoyang Huang, Shuming Ma +3

Despite the success of multilingual sequence-to-sequence pre-training, most existing approaches rely on document-level monolingual corpora in many different languages, sentence-lev…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

LVP-M3: Language-aware Visual Prompt for Multilingual Multimodal Machine Translation

Hongcheng Guo, Jiaheng Liu, Haoyang Huang +5

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) focuses on enhancing text-only translation with visual features, which has attracted considerable attention from both natural language processi…

cs.CL2022

A Bilingual Parallel Corpus with Discourse Annotations

Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Tianyu Liu, Shuming Ma +3

Machine translation (MT) has almost achieved human parity at sentence-level translation. In response, the MT community has, in part, shifted its focus to document-level translation…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

CROP: Zero-shot Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition with Multilingual Labeled Sequence Translation

Jian Yang, Shaohan Huang, Shuming Ma +6

Named entity recognition (NER) suffers from the scarcity of annotated training data, especially for low-resource languages without labeled data. Cross-lingual NER has been proposed…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Revamping Multilingual Agreement Bidirectionally via Switched Back-translation for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Hongyuan Lu, Haoyang Huang, Shuming Ma +3

Despite the fact that multilingual agreement (MA) has shown its importance for multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), current methodologies in the field have two shortages…

cs.CL2022★ 11 cited

UM4: Unified Multilingual Multiple Teacher-Student Model for Zero-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma +5

Most translation tasks among languages belong to the zero-resource translation problem where parallel corpora are unavailable. Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) enable…

cs.CL2022★ 13 cited

HLT-MT: High-resource Language-specific Training for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma +3

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) trained in multiple language pairs has attracted considerable attention due to fewer model parameters and lower training costs by sha…

cs.CL2022★ 25 cited

GTrans: Grouping and Fusing Transformer Layers for Neural Machine Translation

Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Liqun Yang +5

Transformer structure, stacked by a sequence of encoder and decoder network layers, achieves significant development in neural machine translation. However, vanilla Transformer mai…

cs.CL2022★ 54 cited

DeepNet: Scaling Transformers to 1,000 Layers

Hongyu Wang, Shuming Ma, Li Dong +3

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method to stabilize extremely deep Transformers. Specifically, we introduce a new normalization function (DeepNorm) to modify the r…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer of Prompt-based Tuning with a Unified Multilingual Prompt

Lianzhe Huang, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang +2

Prompt-based tuning has been proven effective for pretrained language models (PLMs). While most of the existing work focuses on the monolingual prompts, we study the multilingual p…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

SMDT: Selective Memory-Augmented Neural Document Translation

Xu Zhang, Jian Yang, Haoyang Huang +4

Existing document-level neural machine translation (NMT) models have sufficiently explored different context settings to provide guidance for target generation. However, little att…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

PAEG: Phrase-level Adversarial Example Generation for Neural Machine Translation

Juncheng Wan, Jian Yang, Shuming Ma +4

While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved impressive progress, noisy input usually leads models to become fragile and unstable. Generating adversarial examples…

cs.CL2021★ 15 cited

Multilingual Machine Translation Systems from Microsoft for WMT21 Shared Task

Jian Yang, Shuming Ma, Haoyang Huang +8

This report describes Microsoft's machine translation systems for the WMT21 shared task on large-scale multilingual machine translation. We participated in all three evaluation tra…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Towards Making the Most of Multilingual Pretraining for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation

Guanhua Chen, Shuming Ma, Yun Chen +4

This paper demonstrates that multilingual pretraining and multilingual fine-tuning are both critical for facilitating cross-lingual transfer in zero-shot translation, where the neu…