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20182025
most citedAcquiring Knowledge from Pre-trained Model to Neural Machine Translation

11 citations · 47 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CL2025

Trans-Zero: Self-Play Incentivizes Large Language Models for Multilingual Translation Without Parallel Data

Wei Zou, Sen Yang, Yu Bao +3

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has reshaped machine translation (MT), but multilingual MT still relies heavily on parallel data for supervised fine-tuning (SFT), facing c…

cs.CL2024

MT-PATCHER: Selective and Extendable Knowledge Distillation from Large Language Models for Machine Translation

Jiahuan Li, Shanbo Cheng, Shujian Huang +1

Large Language Models (LLM) have demonstrated their strong ability in the field of machine translation (MT), yet they suffer from high computational cost and latency. Therefore, tr…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Speech Translation with Large Language Models: An Industrial Practice

Zhichao Huang, Rong Ye, Tom Ko +4

Given the great success of large language models (LLMs) across various tasks, in this paper, we introduce LLM-ST, a novel and effective speech translation model constructed upon a…

cs.CL2023

Only 5\% Attention Is All You Need: Efficient Long-range Document-level Neural Machine Translation

Zihan Liu, Zewei Sun, Shanbo Cheng +2

Document-level Neural Machine Translation (DocNMT) has been proven crucial for handling discourse phenomena by introducing document-level context information. One of the most impor…

cs.CV2023

BigVideo: A Large-scale Video Subtitle Translation Dataset for Multimodal Machine Translation

Liyan Kang, Luyang Huang, Ningxin Peng +6

We present a large-scale video subtitle translation dataset, BigVideo, to facilitate the study of multi-modality machine translation. Compared with the widely used How2 and VaTeX d…

eess.AS2023

Visual Information Matters for ASR Error Correction

Vanya Bannihatti Kumar, Shanbo Cheng, Ningxin Peng +1

Aiming to improve the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) outputs with a post-processing step, ASR error correction (EC) techniques have been widely developed due to their efficienc…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Better Datastore, Better Translation: Generating Datastores from Pre-Trained Models for Nearest Neural Machine Translation

Jiahuan Li, Shanbo Cheng, Zewei Sun +2

Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation (kNNMT) is a simple and effective method of augmenting neural machine translation (NMT) with a token-level nearest neighbor retrieval mechanism…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Beyond Triplet: Leveraging the Most Data for Multimodal Machine Translation

Yaoming Zhu, Zewei Sun, Shanbo Cheng +3

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to improve translation quality by incorporating information from other modalities, such as vision. Previous MMT systems mainly focus on be…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Controlling Styles in Neural Machine Translation with Activation Prompt

Yifan Wang, Zewei Sun, Shanbo Cheng +2

Controlling styles in neural machine translation (NMT) has attracted wide attention, as it is crucial for enhancing user experience. Earlier studies on this topic typically concent…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

Zero-shot Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation with Retrieved Phrase-level Prompts

Zewei Sun, Qingnan Jiang, Shujian Huang +3

Domain adaptation is an important challenge for neural machine translation. However, the traditional fine-tuning solution requires multiple extra training and yields a high cost. I…

cs.CL2022

Unified Multimodal Punctuation Restoration Framework for Mixed-Modality Corpus

Yaoming Zhu, Liwei Wu, Shanbo Cheng +1

The punctuation restoration task aims to correctly punctuate the output transcriptions of automatic speech recognition systems. Previous punctuation models, either using text only…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

The Volctrans GLAT System: Non-autoregressive Translation Meets WMT21

Lihua Qian, Yi Zhou, Zaixiang Zheng +7

This paper describes the Volctrans' submission to the WMT21 news translation shared task for German->English translation. We build a parallel (i.e., non-autoregressive) translation…

cs.CL2021

Learning Kernel-Smoothed Machine Translation with Retrieved Examples

Qingnan Jiang, Mingxuan Wang, Jun Cao +3

How to effectively adapt neural machine translation (NMT) models according to emerging cases without retraining? Despite the great success of neural machine translation, updating t…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Language Tags Matter for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation

Liwei Wu, Shanbo Cheng, Mingxuan Wang +1

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) has aroused widespread interest due to its efficiency. An exciting advantage of MNMT models is that they could also translate between…

cs.CL2020★ 4 cited

AR: Auto-Repair the Synthetic Data for Neural Machine Translation

Shanbo Cheng, Shaohui Kuang, Rongxiang Weng +3

Compared with only using limited authentic parallel data as training corpus, many studies have proved that incorporating synthetic parallel data, which generated by back translatio…

cs.CL2019★ 11 cited

Acquiring Knowledge from Pre-trained Model to Neural Machine Translation

Rongxiang Weng, Heng Yu, Shujian Huang +2

Pre-training and fine-tuning have achieved great success in the natural language process field. The standard paradigm of exploiting them includes two steps: first, pre-training a m…

cs.CL2018★ 6 cited

Improving Multilingual Semantic Textual Similarity with Shared Sentence Encoder for Low-resource Languages

Xin Tang, Shanbo Cheng, Loc Do +5

Measuring the semantic similarity between two sentences (or Semantic Textual Similarity - STS) is fundamental in many NLP applications. Despite the remarkable results in supervised…