Search Results for author: Surafel M. Lakew

Found 15 papers, 6 papers with code

Adapting Multilingual NMT to Extremely Low Resource Languages FBK’s Participation in the Basque-English Low-Resource MT Task, IWSLT 2018

no code implementations IWSLT (EMNLP) 2018 Surafel M. Lakew, Marcello Federico

In the experimental setting, an extremely low-resourced Basque-English language pair (i. e., ≈ 5. 6K in-domain training data) is our target translation task, where we considered a closely related French/Spanish-English parallel data to build the multilingual model.

Machine Translation NMT +2

Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation with Self-Learning Cycle

no code implementations MTSummit 2021 Surafel M. Lakew, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) approaches employing monolingual data are showing steady improvements in resource-rich conditions.

Machine Translation NMT +2

FBK’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2017

no code implementations IWSLT 2017 Surafel M. Lakew, Quintino F. Lotito, Marco Turchi, Matteo Negri, Marcello Federico

Particularly, we focus on the four zero-shot directions and show how a multilingual model trained with small data can provide reasonable results.

Machine Translation Transfer Learning +1

Isochrony-Aware Neural Machine Translation for Automatic Dubbing

no code implementations16 Dec 2021 Derek Tam, Surafel M. Lakew, Yogesh Virkar, Prashant Mathur, Marcello Federico

We introduce the task of isochrony-aware machine translation which aims at generating translations suitable for dubbing.

Machine Translation Sentence +1

Isometric MT: Neural Machine Translation for Automatic Dubbing

no code implementations16 Dec 2021 Surafel M. Lakew, Yogesh Virkar, Prashant Mathur, Marcello Federico

Automatic dubbing (AD) is among the machine translation (MT) use cases where translations should match a given length to allow for synchronicity between source and target speech.

Machine Translation Re-Ranking +2

Machine Translation Verbosity Control for Automatic Dubbing

no code implementations8 Oct 2021 Surafel M. Lakew, Marcello Federico, Yue Wang, Cuong Hoang, Yogesh Virkar, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Robert Enyedi

Automatic dubbing aims at seamlessly replacing the speech in a video document with synthetic speech in a different language.

Machine Translation Translation

Self-Learning for Zero Shot Neural Machine Translation

no code implementations10 Mar 2021 Surafel M. Lakew, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) approaches employing monolingual data are showing steady improvements in resource rich conditions.

Machine Translation NMT +2

Low Resource Neural Machine Translation: A Benchmark for Five African Languages

1 code implementation31 Mar 2020 Surafel M. Lakew, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

Recent advents in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) have shown improvements in low-resource language (LRL) translation tasks.

Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation NMT +2

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Zero-Resource Languages

1 code implementation16 Sep 2019 Surafel M. Lakew, Marcello Federico, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi

In recent years, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been shown to be more effective than phrase-based statistical methods, thus quickly becoming the state of the art in machine translation (MT).

Machine Translation NMT +1

Improving Zero-Shot Translation of Low-Resource Languages

1 code implementation IWSLT 2017 Surafel M. Lakew, Quintino F. Lotito, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, Marcello Federico

Recent work on multilingual neural machine translation reported competitive performance with respect to bilingual models and surprisingly good performance even on (zeroshot) translation directions not observed at training time.

Machine Translation Translation

Transfer Learning in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Dynamic Vocabulary

2 code implementations IWSLT (EMNLP) 2018 Surafel M. Lakew, Aliia Erofeeva, Matteo Negri, Marcello Federico, Marco Turchi

Our approach allows to extend an initial model for a given language pair to cover new languages by adapting its vocabulary as long as new data become available (i. e., introducing new vocabulary items if they are not included in the initial model).

Machine Translation NMT +2

Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties

no code implementations WS 2018 Surafel M. Lakew, Aliia Erofeeva, Marcello Federico

Both research and commercial machine translation have so far neglected the importance of properly handling the spelling, lexical and grammar divergences occurring among language varieties.

Machine Translation Translation

A Comparison of Transformer and Recurrent Neural Networks on Multilingual Neural Machine Translation

no code implementations COLING 2018 Surafel M. Lakew, Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico

Motivated by this, our work (i) provides a quantitative and comparative analysis of the translations produced by bilingual, multilingual and zero-shot systems; (ii) investigates the translation quality of two of the currently dominant neural architectures in MT, which are the Recurrent and the Transformer ones; and (iii) quantitatively explores how the closeness between languages influences the zero-shot translation.

Machine Translation NMT +2

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