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cs.CL2026

Loong: A Human-Like Long Document Translation Agent with Observe-and-Act Adaptive Context Selection

Yutong Wang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong +5

Document-level translation remains one of the most challenging tasks for large language models, which are constrained by limited context windows that impede global cohesion, while…

cs.CL2026

Unlocking Fine-Grained Translation Quality Estimation in LRMs through Mutually Boosting Implicit and Explicit Reasoning

Renfei Dang, Xinye Wang, Zhejian Lai +5

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) still struggle with fine-grained translation quality estimation (QE), even with long reasoning chains. We argue that LRMs already possess strong multi…

cs.CL2026

Cross-Preference Learning for Sentence-Level and Context-Aware Machine Translation

Ying Li, Xinglin Lyu, Junhui Li +5

Context-aware machine translation (MT) leverages document-level information, yet it does not consistently outperform sentence-level MT, as contextual signals are unevenly beneficia…

cs.CL2025

ELSPR: Evaluator LLM Training Data Self-Purification on Non-Transitive Preferences via Tournament Graph Reconstruction

Yan Yu, Yilun Liu, Minggui He +9

Pairwise evaluation of large language models (LLMs) has become the dominant paradigm for benchmarking open-ended tasks, yet non-transitive preferences, where evaluators prefer A ov…

cs.CL2025

Two Intermediate Translations Are Better Than One: Fine-tuning LLMs for Document-level Translation Refinement

Yichen Dong, Xinglin Lyu, Junhui Li +4

Recent research has shown that large language models (LLMs) can enhance translation quality through self-refinement. In this paper, we build on this idea by extending the refinemen…

cs.CL2025

Improving LLM-based Document-level Machine Translation with Multi-Knowledge Fusion

Bin Liu, Xinglin Lyu, Junhui Li +4

Recent studies in prompting large language model (LLM) for document-level machine translation (DMT) primarily focus on the inter-sentence context by flatting the source document in…

cs.CL2025

R1-T1: Fully Incentivizing Translation Capability in LLMs via Reasoning Learning

Minggui He, Yilun Liu, Shimin Tao +10

Despite recent breakthroughs in reasoning-enhanced large language models (LLMs) like DeepSeek-R1, incorporating inference-time reasoning into machine translation (MT), where human…

cs.CL2024

M-Ped: Multi-Prompt Ensemble Decoding for Large Language Models

Jiaxin Guo, Daimeng Wei, Yuanchang Luo +8

With the widespread application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), enhancing their performance has become a research hotspot. This p…

cs.CL2024★ 11 cited

From Handcrafted Features to LLMs: A Brief Survey for Machine Translation Quality Estimation

Haofei Zhao, Yilun Liu, Shimin Tao +6

Machine Translation Quality Estimation (MTQE) is the task of estimating the quality of machine-translated text in real time without the need for reference translations, which is of…

cs.CL2024

Clustering and Ranking: Diversity-preserved Instruction Selection through Expert-aligned Quality Estimation

Yuan Ge, Yilun Liu, Chi Hu +10

With contributions from the open-source community, a vast amount of instruction tuning (IT) data has emerged. Given the significant resource allocation required for training and ev…

cs.CL2024

DeMPT: Decoding-enhanced Multi-phase Prompt Tuning for Making LLMs Be Better Context-aware Translators

Xinglin Lyu, Junhui Li, Yanqing Zhao +4

Generally, the decoder-only large language models (LLMs) are adapted to context-aware neural machine translation (NMT) in a concatenating way, where LLMs take the concatenation of…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

UCorrect: An Unsupervised Framework for Automatic Speech Recognition Error Correction

Jiaxin Guo, Minghan Wang, Xiaosong Qiao +9

Error correction techniques have been used to refine the output sentences from automatic speech recognition (ASR) models and achieve a lower word error rate (WER). Previous works u…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

CoachLM: Automatic Instruction Revisions Improve the Data Quality in LLM Instruction Tuning

Yilun Liu, Shimin Tao, Xiaofeng Zhao +11

Instruction tuning is crucial for enabling Language Learning Models (LLMs) in responding to human instructions. The quality of instruction pairs used for tuning greatly affects the…

cs.CL2023

Unify word-level and span-level tasks: NJUNLP's Participation for the WMT2023 Quality Estimation Shared Task

Xiang Geng, Zhejian Lai, Yu Zhang +4

We introduce the submissions of the NJUNLP team to the WMT 2023 Quality Estimation (QE) shared task. Our team submitted predictions for the English-German language pair on all two…

cs.CL2023

Collective Human Opinions in Semantic Textual Similarity

Yuxia Wang, Shimin Tao, Ning Xie +3

Despite the subjective nature of semantic textual similarity (STS) and pervasive disagreements in STS annotation, existing benchmarks have used averaged human ratings as the gold s…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Translate Meanings, Not Just Words: IdiomKB's Role in Optimizing Idiomatic Translation with Language Models

Shuang Li, Jiangjie Chen, Siyu Yuan +4

To translate well, machine translation (MT) systems and general-purposed language models (LMs) need a deep understanding of both source and target languages and cultures. Therefore…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Knowledge-Prompted Estimator: A Novel Approach to Explainable Machine Translation Assessment

Hao Yang, Min Zhang, Shimin Tao +3

Cross-lingual Machine Translation (MT) quality estimation plays a crucial role in evaluating translation performance. GEMBA, the first MT quality assessment metric based on Large L…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

P-Transformer: Towards Better Document-to-Document Neural Machine Translation

Yachao Li, Junhui Li, Jing Jiang +3

Directly training a document-to-document (Doc2Doc) neural machine translation (NMT) via Transformer from scratch, especially on small datasets usually fails to converge. Our dedica…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Neighbors Are Not Strangers: Improving Non-Autoregressive Translation under Low-Frequency Lexical Constraints

Chun Zeng, Jiangjie Chen, Tianyi Zhuang +5

However, current autoregressive approaches suffer from high latency. In this paper, we focus on non-autoregressive translation (NAT) for this problem for its efficiency advantage.…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

Diformer: Directional Transformer for Neural Machine Translation

Minghan Wang, Jiaxin Guo, Yuxia Wang +8

Autoregressive (AR) and Non-autoregressive (NAR) models have their own superiority on the performance and latency, combining them into one model may take advantage of both. Current…

cs.CL2021

Joint-training on Symbiosis Networks for Deep Nueral Machine Translation models

Zhengzhe Yu, Jiaxin Guo, Minghan Wang +11

Deep encoders have been proven to be effective in improving neural machine translation (NMT) systems, but it reaches the upper bound of translation quality when the number of encod…

cs.CL2021★ 8 cited

Self-Distillation Mixup Training for Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation

Jiaxin Guo, Minghan Wang, Daimeng Wei +11

Recently, non-autoregressive (NAT) models predict outputs in parallel, achieving substantial improvements in generation speed compared to autoregressive (AT) models. While performi…

cs.CL2021★ 5 cited

The HW-TSC's Offline Speech Translation Systems for IWSLT 2021 Evaluation

Minghan Wang, Yuxia Wang, Chang Su +9

This paper describes our work in participation of the IWSLT-2021 offline speech translation task. Our system was built in a cascade form, including a speaker diarization module, an…