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  • Modeling Coverage for Neural Machine Translation

    Zhaopeng Tu, Zhengdong Lu, Yang Liu, Xiaohua Liu, Hang Li

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2016

    This paper proposes coverage-based NMT, which maintains a coverage vector to keep track of the attention history and improves both translation quality and alignment quality over standard attention- based NMT.

    786
  • Tree-to-string alignment template for statistical machine translation

    Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin

    Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the ACL - ACL '06 · 2006

    A novel translation model based on tree-to-string alignment template (TAT) which describes the alignment between a source parse tree and a target string that significantly outperforms Pharaoh, a state-of-the-art decoder for phrase-based models.

    394
  • Improving the Transformer Translation Model with Document-Level Context

    Jiacheng Zhang, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun, Feifei Zhai, Jingfang Xu, Min Zhang, Yang Liu

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2018

    This work extends the Transformer model with a new context encoder to represent document-level context, which is then incorporated into the original encoder and decoder, and introduces a two-step training method to take full advantage of abundant sentence-level parallel corpora and limited document- level parallel Corpora.

    274
  • Neural Machine Translation with Reconstruction

    Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Lifeng Shang, Xiaohua Liu, Hang Li

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2017

    Experiments show that the proposed framework significantly improves the adequacy of NMT output and achieves superior translation result over state-of-the-art NMT and statistical MT systems.

    212
  • Learning Natural Language Inference using Bidirectional LSTM model and Inner-Attention

    Yang Liu, Chengjie Sun, Lei Lin, Xiaolong Wang

    arXiv · 2016

    207
  • Learning to Remember Translation History with a Continuous Cache

    Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Shuming Shi, Tong Zhang

    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2018

    This work proposes to augment NMT models with a very light-weight cache-like memory network, which stores recent hidden representations as translation history and the probability distribution over generated words is updated online depending on the translation history retrieved from the memory.

    189
  • Visualizing and Understanding Neural Machine Translation

    Yanzhuo Ding, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2017

    This work proposes to use layer-wise relevance propagation (LRP) to compute the contribution of each contextual word to arbitrary hidden states in the attention-based encoder-decoder framework and shows that visualization with LRP helps to interpret the internal workings of NMT and analyze translation errors.

    186
  • Towards Robust Neural Machine Translation

    Yong Cheng, Zhaopeng Tu, Fandong Meng, Junjie Zhai, Yang Liu

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2018

    Experimental results on Chinese-English, English-German and English-French translation tasks show that the proposed approaches can not only achieve significant improvements over strong NMT systems but also improve the robustness of NMT models.

    169
  • Learning Structured Text Representations

    Yang Liu, Mirella Lapata

    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2018

    A model that can encode a document while automatically inducing rich structural dependencies is proposed that embeds a differentiable non-projective parsing algorithm into a neural model and uses attention mechanisms to incorporate the structural biases.

    156
  • Neural machine translation: A review of methods, resources, and tools

    Zhixing Tan, Shuo Wang, Zonghan Yang, Gang Chen, Xuancheng Huang, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu

    AI Open · 2020

    A broad review of the methods for NMT is provided and focus on methods relating to architectures, decoding, and data augmentation, with a discussion of possible future research directions.

    152
  • Context Gates for Neural Machine Translation

    Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Zhengdong Lu, Xiaohua Liu, Hang Li

    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2017

    Context gates are proposed which dynamically control the ratios at which source and target contexts contribute to the generation of target words and can enhance both the adequacy and fluency of NMT with more careful control of the information flow from contexts.

    152
  • Skywork: A More Open Bilingual Foundation Model

    Tianwen Wei, Liang Zhao, Lichang Zhang, Zhu, Bo, Lijie Wang, Haihua Yang, Biye Li, Cheng Cheng, +22 more

    arXiv · 2023

    This bilingual foundation model is the most extensively trained and openly published LLMs of comparable size to date, and introduces a two-stage training methodology using a segmented corpus, targeting general purpose training and then domain-specific enhancement training, respectively.

    135
  • Sparse Sinkhorn Attention

    Yi Tay, Dara Bahri, Yang Liu, Donald Metzler, Da-Cheng Juan

    arXiv · 2020

    110
  • THUMT: An Open-Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation

    Zhixing Tan, Jiacheng Zhang, Xuancheng Huang, Gang Chen, Shuo Wang, Maosong Sun, Huanbo Luan, Yang Liu

    Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas · 2020

    Experiments on English-German and Chinese-English datasets show that THUMT can obtain results that are comparable to state-of-the-art NMT systems.

    95
  • On the Inference Calibration of Neural Machine Translation

    Shuo Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Shuming Shi, Yang Liu

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2020

    This work provides in-depth analyses of the correlation between calibration and translation performance as well as linguistic properties of miscalibration and reports a number of interesting findings that might help humans better analyze, understand and improve NMT models.

    94
  • Reducing Word Omission Errors in Neural Machine Translation: A Contrastive Learning Approach

    Zonghan Yang, Yong Cheng, Yang Liu, Maosong Sun

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2019

    This work proposes a contrastive learning approach to reducing word omission errors in NMT that achieves better translation performance than three baseline methods and designs different types of negative examples depending on the number of omitted words, word frequency, and part of speech.

    87
  • Improving Back-Translation with Uncertainty-based Confidence Estimation

    Shuo Wang, Yang Liu, Chao Wang, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun

    Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · 2019

    This work proposes to quantify the confidence of NMT model predictions based on model uncertainty, and shows that uncertainty-based confidence estimation significantly improves the performance of back-translation.

    86
  • Analysis of the Paragraph Vector Model for Information Retrieval

    Qingyao Ai, Yang Liu, Jiafeng Guo, W. Bruce Croft

    Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval · 2016

    The unregulated training process of PV is vulnerable to short document over-fitting that produces length bias in the final retrieval model, and the corpus-based negative sampling of PV leads to a weighting scheme for words that overly suppresses the importance of frequent words.

    84
  • Multi-Domain Neural Machine Translation with Word-Level Domain Context Discrimination

    Jiali Zeng, Jinsong Su, Huating Wen, Yang Liu, Jun Xie, Yongjing Yin, Jianqiang Zhao

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2018

    This paper jointly model NMT with monolingual attention-based domain classification tasks and improves NMT as follows, distinguishing and exploiting word-level domain contexts for multi-domain NMT.

    81
  • Automated Essay Scoring with Discourse-Aware Neural Models

    Farah Nadeem, Nguyễn Văn Huy, Yang Liu, Mari Ostendorf

    Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications · 2019

    Experiments on three essay scoring tasks show benefits from all three strategies in different combinations, with simpler architectures being more effective when less training data is available.

    79
  • A Hierarchy-to-Sequence Attentional Neural Machine Translation Model

    Jinsong Su, Jiali Zeng, Deyi Xiong, Yang Liu, Mingxuan Wang, Jun Xie

    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing · 2018

    79
  • THUMT: An Open Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation

    Jiacheng Zhang, Yanzhuo Ding, Shiqi Shen, Yong Cheng, Maosong Sun, Huanbo Luan, Yang Liu

    arXiv · 2017

    75
  • Prior Knowledge Integration for Neural Machine Translation using Posterior Regularization

    Jiacheng Zhang, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan, Jingfang Xu, Maosong Sun

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2017

    This work proposes to use posterior regularization to provide a general framework for integrating prior knowledge into neural machine translation, and represents prior knowledge sources as features in a log-linear model, which guides the learning processing of the neural translation model.

    71
  • Recursive Autoencoders for ITG-Based Translation

    Peng Li, Yang Liu, Maosong Sun

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2013

    This work proposes to use recursive autoencoders to make full use of the entire merging blocks alternatively to enable predicting orders to exploit syntactic and semantic information from a neural language modeling’s perspective.

    68
  • Accurate Word Alignment Induction from Neural Machine Translation

    Yun Chen, Yang Liu, Guanhua Chen, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020

    It is shown that attention weights do capture accurate word alignment, which could only be revealed if the correct decoding step and layer to induce word alignment is chosen, and two simple but effective interpretation methods for word alignment induction are presented.

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