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20152023
most citedToward Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Universal Encoder and Decoder

265 citations · 1.1k across the 50 of their papers we have counts for

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60 papers

cs.CL2023

End-to-End Evaluation for Low-Latency Simultaneous Speech Translation

Christian Huber, Tu Anh Dinh, Carlos Mullov +10

The challenge of low-latency speech translation has recently draw significant interest in the research community as shown by several publications and shared tasks. Therefore, it is…

cs.CL2023

KIT's Multilingual Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023

Danni Liu, Thai Binh Nguyen, Sai Koneru +7

Many existing speech translation benchmarks focus on native-English speech in high-quality recording conditions, which often do not match the conditions in real-life use-cases. In…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Gender Lost In Translation: How Bridging The Gap Between Languages Affects Gender Bias in Zero-Shot Multilingual Translation

Lena Cabrera, Jan Niehues

Neural machine translation (NMT) models often suffer from gender biases that harm users and society at large. In this work, we explore how bridging the gap between languages for wh…

cs.CL2023

Train Global, Tailor Local: Minimalist Multilingual Translation into Endangered Languages

Zhong Zhou, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel

In many humanitarian scenarios, translation into severely low resource languages often does not require a universal translation engine, but a dedicated text-specific translation en…

cs.CL2023

Perturbation-based QE: An Explainable, Unsupervised Word-level Quality Estimation Method for Blackbox Machine Translation

Tu Anh Dinh, Jan Niehues

Quality Estimation (QE) is the task of predicting the quality of Machine Translation (MT) system output, without using any gold-standard translation references. State-of-the-art QE…

cs.CL2022

Learning an Artificial Language for Knowledge-Sharing in Multilingual Translation

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues

The cornerstone of multilingual neural translation is shared representations across languages. Given the theoretically infinite representation power of neural networks, semanticall…

cs.CL2022

Efficient Speech Translation with Pre-trained Models

Zhaolin Li, Jan Niehues

When building state-of-the-art speech translation models, the need for large computational resources is a significant obstacle due to the large training data size and complex model…

cs.CL2022

Towards continually learning new languages

Ngoc-Quan Pham, Jan Niehues, Alexander Waibel

Multilingual speech recognition with neural networks is often implemented with batch-learning, when all of the languages are available before training. An ability to add new langua…

cs.CL2022

Adaptive multilingual speech recognition with pretrained models

Ngoc-Quan Pham, Alex Waibel, Jan Niehues

Multilingual speech recognition with supervised learning has achieved great results as reflected in recent research. With the development of pretraining methods on audio and text d…

cs.CL2022

CUNI-KIT System for Simultaneous Speech Translation Task at IWSLT 2022

Peter Polák, Ngoc-Quan Ngoc, Tuan-Nam Nguyen +5

In this paper, we describe our submission to the Simultaneous Speech Translation at IWSLT 2022. We explore strategies to utilize an offline model in a simultaneous setting without…

cs.CL2022

LibriS2S: A German-English Speech-to-Speech Translation Corpus

Pedro Jeuris, Jan Niehues

Recently, we have seen an increasing interest in the area of speech-to-text translation. This has led to astonishing improvements in this area. In contrast, the activities in the a…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Multilingual Simultaneous Speech Translation

Shashank Subramanya, Jan Niehues

Applications designed for simultaneous speech translation during events such as conferences or meetings need to balance quality and lag while displaying translated text to deliver…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Tackling data scarcity in speech translation using zero-shot multilingual machine translation techniques

Tu Anh Dinh, Danni Liu, Jan Niehues

Recently, end-to-end speech translation (ST) has gained significant attention as it avoids error propagation. However, the approach suffers from data scarcity. It heavily depends o…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Cost-Effective Training in Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Sai Koneru, Danni Liu, Jan Niehues

While Active Learning (AL) techniques are explored in Neural Machine Translation (NMT), only a few works focus on tackling low annotation budgets where a limited number of sentence…

hep-ex2021★ 5 cited

Impact of jet-production data on the next-to-next-to-leading-order determination of HERAPDF2.0 parton distributions

H1, ZEUS Collaborations, : +234

The HERAPDF2.0 ensemble of parton distribution functions (PDFs) was introduced in 2015. The final stage is presented, a next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) analysis of the HERA da…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Unsupervised Machine Translation On Dravidian Languages

Sai Koneru, Danni Liu, Jan Niehues

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) is beneficial especially for low resource languages such as those from the Dravidian family. However, UNMT systems tend to fail in re…

cs.CL2021

Continuous Learning in Neural Machine Translation using Bilingual Dictionaries

Jan Niehues

While recent advances in deep learning led to significant improvements in machine translation, neural machine translation is often still not able to continuously adapt to the envir…

cs.CL2020★ 11 cited

Improving Zero-Shot Translation by Disentangling Positional Information

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues, James Cross +2

Multilingual neural machine translation has shown the capability of directly translating between language pairs unseen in training, i.e. zero-shot translation. Despite being concep…

hep-ex2020★ 244 cited

The Large Hadron-Electron Collider at the HL-LHC

P. Agostini, H. Aksakal, S. Alekhin +333

The Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) is designed to move the field of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) to the energy and intensity frontier of particle physics. Exploiting ener…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Adapting End-to-End Speech Recognition for Readable Subtitles

Danni Liu, Jan Niehues, Gerasimos Spanakis

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are primarily evaluated on transcription accuracy. However, in some use cases such as subtitling, verbatim transcription would reduce out…

eess.AS2020★ 1 cited

Relative Positional Encoding for Speech Recognition and Direct Translation

Ngoc-Quan Pham, Thanh-Le Ha, Tuan-Nam Nguyen +5

Transformer models are powerful sequence-to-sequence architectures that are capable of directly mapping speech inputs to transcriptions or translations. However, the mechanism for…

cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

Low-Latency Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition and Translation by Partial Hypothesis Selection

Danni Liu, Gerasimos Spanakis, Jan Niehues

Encoder-decoder models provide a generic architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as speech recognition and translation. While offline systems are often evaluated on qualit…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Machine Translation with Unsupervised Length-Constraints

Jan Niehues

We have seen significant improvements in machine translation due to the usage of deep learning. While the improvements in translation quality are impressive, the encoder-decoder ar…

eess.AS2020★ 10 cited

Low Latency ASR for Simultaneous Speech Translation

Thai Son Nguyen, Jan Niehues, Eunah Cho +6

User studies have shown that reducing the latency of our simultaneous lecture translation system should be the most important goal. We therefore have worked on several techniques f…