Towards Red Teaming in Multimodal and Multilingual Translation

no code implementations • 29 Jan 2024 • Christophe Ropers, David Dale, Prangthip Hansanti, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Ivan Evtimov, Corinne Wong, Christophe Touret, Kristina Pereyra, Seohyun Sonia Kim, Cristian Canton Ferrer, Pierre Andrews, Marta R. Costa-jussà

Assessing performance in Natural Language Processing is becoming increasingly complex.

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MuTox: Universal MUltilingual Audio-based TOXicity Dataset and Zero-shot Detector

1 code implementation • 10 Jan 2024 • Marta R. Costa-jussà, Mariano Coria Meglioli, Pierre Andrews, David Dale, Prangthip Hansanti, Elahe Kalbassi, Alex Mourachko, Christophe Ropers, Carleigh Wood

Research in toxicity detection in natural language processing for the speech modality (audio-based) is quite limited, particularly for languages other than English.

Seamless: Multilingual Expressive and Streaming Speech Translation

1 code implementation • 8 Dec 2023 • Seamless Communication, Loïc Barrault, Yu-An Chung, Mariano Coria Meglioli, David Dale, Ning Dong, Mark Duppenthaler, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Brian Ellis, Hady Elsahar, Justin Haaheim, John Hoffman, Min-Jae Hwang, Hirofumi Inaguma, Christopher Klaiber, Ilia Kulikov, Pengwei Li, Daniel Licht, Jean Maillard, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Alice Rakotoarison, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Tuan Tran, Guillaume Wenzek, Yilin Yang, Ethan Ye, Ivan Evtimov, Pierre Fernandez, Cynthia Gao, Prangthip Hansanti, Elahe Kalbassi, Amanda Kallet, Artyom Kozhevnikov, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Robin San Roman, Christophe Touret, Corinne Wong, Carleigh Wood, Bokai Yu, Pierre Andrews, Can Balioglu, Peng-Jen Chen, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Maha Elbayad, Hongyu Gong, Francisco Guzmán, Kevin Heffernan, Somya Jain, Justine Kao, Ann Lee, Xutai Ma, Alex Mourachko, Benjamin Peloquin, Juan Pino, Sravya Popuri, Christophe Ropers, Safiyyah Saleem, Holger Schwenk, Anna Sun, Paden Tomasello, Changhan Wang, Jeff Wang, Skyler Wang, Mary Williamson

In this work, we introduce a family of models that enable end-to-end expressive and multilingual translations in a streaming fashion.

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Gender-specific Machine Translation with Large Language Models

no code implementations • 6 Sep 2023 • Eduardo Sánchez, Pierre Andrews, Pontus Stenetorp, Mikel Artetxe, Marta R. Costa-jussà

While machine translation (MT) systems have seen significant improvements, it is still common for translations to reflect societal biases, such as gender bias.

coreference-resolution In-Context Learning +3

The Gender-GAP Pipeline: A Gender-Aware Polyglot Pipeline for Gender Characterisation in 55 Languages

1 code implementation • 31 Aug 2023 • Benjamin Muller, Belen Alastruey, Prangthip Hansanti, Elahe Kalbassi, Christophe Ropers, Eric Michael Smith, Adina Williams, Luke Zettlemoyer, Pierre Andrews, Marta R. Costa-jussà

We showcase it to report gender representation in WMT training data and development data for the News task, confirming that current data is skewed towards masculine representation.

Data Augmentation Text Generation

SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation

2 code implementations • 22 Aug 2023 • Seamless Communication, Loïc Barrault, Yu-An Chung, Mariano Cora Meglioli, David Dale, Ning Dong, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Hady Elsahar, Hongyu Gong, Kevin Heffernan, John Hoffman, Christopher Klaiber, Pengwei Li, Daniel Licht, Jean Maillard, Alice Rakotoarison, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Guillaume Wenzek, Ethan Ye, Bapi Akula, Peng-Jen Chen, Naji El Hachem, Brian Ellis, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Justin Haaheim, Prangthip Hansanti, Russ Howes, Bernie Huang, Min-Jae Hwang, Hirofumi Inaguma, Somya Jain, Elahe Kalbassi, Amanda Kallet, Ilia Kulikov, Janice Lam, Daniel Li, Xutai Ma, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Benjamin Peloquin, Mohamed Ramadan, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Anna Sun, Kevin Tran, Tuan Tran, Igor Tufanov, Vish Vogeti, Carleigh Wood, Yilin Yang, Bokai Yu, Pierre Andrews, Can Balioglu, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Onur Celebi, Maha Elbayad, Cynthia Gao, Francisco Guzmán, Justine Kao, Ann Lee, Alexandre Mourachko, Juan Pino, Sravya Popuri, Christophe Ropers, Safiyyah Saleem, Holger Schwenk, Paden Tomasello, Changhan Wang, Jeff Wang, Skyler Wang

What does it take to create the Babel Fish, a tool that can help individuals translate speech between any two languages?

Automatic Speech Recognition Speech-to-Speech Translation +3

Multilingual Holistic Bias: Extending Descriptors and Patterns to Unveil Demographic Biases in Languages at Scale

no code implementations • 22 May 2023 • Marta R. Costa-jussà, Pierre Andrews, Eric Smith, Prangthip Hansanti, Christophe Ropers, Elahe Kalbassi, Cynthia Gao, Daniel Licht, Carleigh Wood

Our initial findings show that translation quality for EN-to-XX translations is an average of 8 spBLEU better when evaluating with the masculine human reference compared to feminine.

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BLASER: A Text-Free Speech-to-Speech Translation Evaluation Metric

1 code implementation • 16 Dec 2022 • Mingda Chen, Paul-Ambroise Duquenne, Pierre Andrews, Justine Kao, Alexandre Mourachko, Holger Schwenk, Marta R. Costa-jussà

In this paper, we propose a text-free evaluation metric for end-to-end S2ST, named BLASER, to avoid the dependency on ASR systems.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation

8 code implementations • Meta AI 2022 • NLLB team, Marta R. Costa-jussà, James Cross, Onur Çelebi, Maha Elbayad, Kenneth Heafield, Kevin Heffernan, Elahe Kalbassi, Janice Lam, Daniel Licht, Jean Maillard, Anna Sun, Skyler Wang, Guillaume Wenzek, Al Youngblood, Bapi Akula, Loic Barrault, Gabriel Mejia Gonzalez, Prangthip Hansanti, John Hoffman, Semarley Jarrett, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Dirk Rowe, Shannon Spruit, Chau Tran, Pierre Andrews, Necip Fazil Ayan, Shruti Bhosale, Sergey Edunov, Angela Fan, Cynthia Gao, Vedanuj Goswami, Francisco Guzmán, Philipp Koehn, Alexandre Mourachko, Christophe Ropers, Safiyyah Saleem, Holger Schwenk, Jeff Wang

Driven by the goal of eradicating language barriers on a global scale, machine translation has solidified itself as a key focus of artificial intelligence research today.

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