Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has obtained state-of-the art performance for several language pairs, while only using parallel data for training. Targetside monolingual data plays an important role in boosting fluency for phrasebased statistical machine translation, and we investigate the use of monolingual data for NMT. In contrast to previous work, which combines NMT models with separately trained language models, we note that encoder-decoder NMT architectures already have the capacity to learn the same information as a language model, and we explore strategies to train with monolingual data without changing the neural network architecture. By pairing monolingual training data with an automatic backtranslation, we can treat it as additional parallel training data, and we obtain substantial improvements on the WMT 15 task English↔German (+2.8-3.7 BLEU), and for the low-resourced IWSLT 14 task Turkish→English (+2.1-3.4 BLEU), obtaining new state-of-the-art results. We also show that fine-tuning on in-domain monolingual and parallel data gives substantial improvements for the IWSLT 15 task English→German.

Neural machine translation (NMT) models typically operate with a fixed vocabulary, but translation is an open-vocabulary problem. Previous work addresses the translation of out-of-vocabulary words by backing off to a dictionary. In this paper, we introduce a simpler and more effective approach, making the NMT model capable of open-vocabulary translation by encoding rare and unknown words as sequences of subword units. This is based on the intuition that various word classes are translatable via smaller units than words, for instance names (via character copying or transliteration), compounds (via compositional translation), and cognates and loanwords (via phonological and morphological transformations). We discuss the suitability of different word segmentation techniques, including simple character ngram models and a segmentation based on the byte pair encoding compression algorithm, and empirically show that subword models improve over a back-off dictionary baseline for the WMT 15 translation tasks English→German and English→Russian by up to 1.1 and 1.3 BLEU, respectively.

许多语言对资源低，这意味着可用并行数据的金额和/或质量不足以训练可以达到可接受的准确性标准的神经机器翻译（NMT）。许多作品探索了在任何一种或两种语言中使用易于使用的单晶体数据来提高低，甚至高资源语言的翻译模型的标准。此类作品中最成功的之一是使用目标语言单格式数据的翻译来增加培训数据的量。已经显示了在可用并行数据上培训的后向模型的质量，以确定反平移方法的性能。尽管如此，在标准后退翻译中只有前向模型得到改善。以前的研究提出了一种迭代的反转换方法，用于改进两种迭代的模型。但与传统的背翻译不同，它依赖于目标和源单格式数据。因此，这项工作提出了一种新颖的方法，其使向后和前向模型能够通过分别通过自学习和后翻的混合来从单声道目标数据中受益。实验结果表明，在英国德国低资源神经电脑翻译中传统的背翻译方法的提出方法的优势。我们还提出了一种迭代自学习方法，优于迭代背翻译，同时仅依赖于单机目标数据并要求培训更少的模型。

在任何翻译工作流程中，从源到目标的域知识保存至关重要。在翻译行业中，接收高度专业化的项目是很常见的，那里几乎没有任何平行的内域数据。在这种情况下，没有足够的内域数据来微调机器翻译（MT）模型，生成与相关上下文一致的翻译很具有挑战性。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种新颖的方法，用于域适应性，以利用最新的审计语言模型（LMS）来用于特定于域的MT的域数据增强，并模拟（a）的（a）小型双语数据集的域特征，或（b）要翻译的单语源文本。将这个想法与反翻译相结合，我们可以为两种用例生成大量的合成双语内域数据。为了进行调查，我们使用最先进的变压器体系结构。我们采用混合的微调来训练模型，从而显着改善了内域文本的翻译。更具体地说，在这两种情况下，我们提出的方法分别在阿拉伯语到英语对阿拉伯语言对上分别提高了大约5-6个BLEU和2-3 BLEU。此外，人类评估的结果证实了自动评估结果。

本文概述了NVIDIA Nemo的神经电机翻译系统，用于WMT21新闻和生物医学共享翻译任务的受限数据跟踪。我们的新闻任务提交英语 - 德语（EN-DE）和英语 - 俄语（EN-RU）是基于基于基于基线变换器的序列到序列模型之上。具体而言，我们使用1）检查点平均2）模型缩放3）模型缩放3）与从左右分解模型的逆转传播和知识蒸馏的数据增强4）从前一年的测试集上的FINETUNING 5）型号集合6）浅融合解码变压器语言模型和7）嘈杂的频道重新排名。此外，我们的BioMedical任务提交的英语 - 俄语使用生物学偏见的词汇表，并从事新闻任务数据的划痕，从新闻任务数据集中策划的医学相关文本以及共享任务提供的生物医学数据。我们的新闻系统在WMT'20 en-de试验中实现了39.5的Sacrebleu得分优于去年任务38.8的最佳提交。我们的生物医学任务ru-en和en-ru系统分别在WMT'20生物医学任务测试集中达到43.8和40.3的Bleu分数，优于上一年的最佳提交。

机器翻译系统（MTS）是通过将文本或语音从一种语言转换为另一种语言的有效工具。在像印度这样的大型多语言环境中，对有效的翻译系统的需求变得显而易见，英语和一套印度语言（ILS）正式使用。与英语相反，由于语料库的不可用，IL仍然被视为低资源语言。为了解决不对称性质，多语言神经机器翻译（MNMT）系统会发展为在这个方向上的理想方法。在本文中，我们提出了一个MNMT系统，以解决与低资源语言翻译有关的问题。我们的模型包括两个MNMT系统，即用于英语印度（一对多），另一个用于指示英语（多一对多），其中包含15个语言对（30个翻译说明）的共享编码器码头。由于大多数IL对具有很少的平行语料库，因此不足以训练任何机器翻译模型。我们探索各种增强策略，以通过建议的模型提高整体翻译质量。最先进的变压器体系结构用于实现所提出的模型。大量数据的试验揭示了其优越性比常规模型的优势。此外，本文解决了语言关系的使用（在方言，脚本等方面），尤其是关于同一家族的高资源语言在提高低资源语言表现方面的作用。此外，实验结果还表明了ILS的倒退和域适应性的优势，以提高源和目标语言的翻译质量。使用所有这些关键方法，我们提出的模型在评估指标方面比基线模型更有效，即一组ILS的BLEU（双语评估研究）得分。

我们解决了神经机翻译中的两个域适应问题。首先，我们希望达到领域的稳健性，即培训数据的域名的良好质量，以及培训数据中的域名不间断。其次，我们希望我们的系统是Adaptive的，即，可以使用只有数百个域的平行句子来实现Finetune系统。在本文中，我们介绍了两个先前方法的新组合，文字自适应建模，解决了域的鲁棒性和荟萃学习，解决了域适应性，并且我们呈现了显示我们新组合改善这些属性的经验结果。

Subword units are an effective way to alleviate the open vocabulary problems in neural machine translation (NMT). While sentences are usually converted into unique subword sequences, subword segmentation is potentially ambiguous and multiple segmentations are possible even with the same vocabulary. The question addressed in this paper is whether it is possible to harness the segmentation ambiguity as a noise to improve the robustness of NMT. We present a simple regularization method, subword regularization, which trains the model with multiple subword segmentations probabilistically sampled during training. In addition, for better subword sampling, we propose a new subword segmentation algorithm based on a unigram language model. We experiment with multiple corpora and report consistent improvements especially on low resource and out-of-domain settings.

我们提出了一种两阶段的培训方法，用于开发单个NMT模型，以翻译英语和英语的看不见的语言。对于第一阶段，我们将编码器模型初始化以鉴定XLM-R和Roberta的权重，然后对25种语言的平行数据进行多种语言微调。我们发现该模型可以推广到对看不见的语言的零击翻译。在第二阶段，我们利用这种概括能力从单语数据集生成合成的并行数据，然后用连续的反向翻译训练。最终模型扩展到了英语到许多方向，同时保持了多到英语的性能。我们称我们的方法为ecxtra（以英语为中心的跨语言（x）转移）。我们的方法依次利用辅助并行数据和单语言数据，并且在概念上很简单，仅在两个阶段都使用标准的跨熵目标。最终的ECXTRA模型对8种低资源语言的无监督NMT进行了评估，该语言为英语至哈萨克语（22.3> 10.4 bleu）以及其他15个翻译方向的竞争性能而获得了新的最先进。

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, with the potential to overcome many of the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Unfortunately, NMT systems are known to be computationally expensive both in training and in translation inference -sometimes prohibitively so in the case of very large data sets and large models. Several authors have also charged that NMT systems lack robustness, particularly when input sentences contain rare words. These issues have hindered NMT's use in practical deployments and services, where both accuracy and speed are essential. In this work, we present GNMT, Google's Neural Machine Translation system, which attempts to address many of these issues. Our model consists of a deep LSTM network with 8 encoder and 8 decoder layers using residual connections as well as attention connections from the decoder network to the encoder. To improve parallelism and therefore decrease training time, our attention mechanism connects the bottom layer of the decoder to the top layer of the encoder. To accelerate the final translation speed, we employ low-precision arithmetic during inference computations. To improve handling of rare words, we divide words into a limited set of common sub-word units ("wordpieces") for both input and output. This method provides a good balance between the flexibility of "character"-delimited models and the efficiency of "word"-delimited models, naturally handles translation of rare words, and ultimately improves the overall accuracy of the system. Our beam search technique employs a length-normalization procedure and uses a coverage penalty, which encourages generation of an output sentence that is most likely to cover all the words in the source sentence. To directly optimize the translation BLEU scores, we consider refining the models by using reinforcement learning, but we found that the improvement in the BLEU scores did not reflect in the human evaluation. On the WMT'14 English-to-French and English-to-German benchmarks, GNMT achieves competitive results to state-of-the-art. Using a human side-by-side evaluation on a set of isolated simple sentences, it reduces translation errors by an average of 60% compared to Google's phrase-based production system.

我们描述了JD Explore Academy对WMT 2022共享的一般翻译任务的提交。我们参加了所有高资源曲目和一条中型曲目，包括中文英语，德语英语，捷克语英语，俄语 - 英语和日语英语。我们通过扩大两个主要因素，即语言对和模型大小，即\ textbf {vega-mt}系统来推动以前的工作的极限 - 进行翻译的双向培训。至于语言对，我们将“双向”扩展到“多向”设置，涵盖所有参与语言，以利用跨语言的常识，并将其转移到下游双语任务中。至于型号尺寸，我们将变压器限制到拥有近47亿参数的极大模型，以完全增强我们VEGA-MT的模型容量。此外，我们采用数据增强策略，例如单语数据的循环翻译以及双语和单语数据的双向自我训练，以全面利用双语和单语言数据。为了使我们的Vega-MT适应通用域测试集，设计了概括调整。根据受约束系统的官方自动分数，根据图1所示的sacrebleu，我们在{zh-en（33.5），en-zh（49.7）（49.7），de-en（33.7）上获得了第一名-de（37.8），CS-EN（54.9），En-CS（41.4）和En-Ru（32.7）}，在{ru-en（45.1）和Ja-en（25.6）}和第三名上的第二名和第三名在{en-ja（41.5）}上； W.R.T彗星，我们在{zh-en（45.1），en-zh（61.7），de-en（58.0），en-de（63.2），cs-en（74.7），ru-en（ru-en（ru-en）上，我们获得了第一名64.9），en-ru（69.6）和en-ja（65.1）}，分别在{en-cs（95.3）和ja-en（40.6）}上的第二名。将发布模型，以通过GitHub和Omniforce平台来促进MT社区。

不断增长的数据量导致更大的通用模型。通常遗漏特定用例，因为通用模型在域特定情况下往往表现不佳。我们的工作通过用于从通用域（并行文本）语料库的域名数据的方法解决了这个差距，用于机器翻译的任务。所提出的方法根据具有单孔域的特定数据集的余弦相似度在并行通用域数据中排列句子。然后，我们选择具有最高相似性分数的顶级k句，以培训调整的新机器翻译系统到特定的域数据。我们的实验结果表明，在通用或通用和域数据的混合训练的域内训练的模型训练的模型。也就是说，我们的方法以低计算成本和数据大小选择高质量的域特定培训实例。

The machine translation mechanism translates texts automatically between different natural languages, and Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has gained attention for its rational context analysis and fluent translation accuracy. However, processing low-resource languages that lack relevant training attributes like supervised data is a current challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP). We incorporated a technique known Active Learning with the NMT toolkit Joey NMT to reach sufficient accuracy and robust predictions of low-resource language translation. With active learning, a semi-supervised machine learning strategy, the training algorithm determines which unlabeled data would be the most beneficial for obtaining labels using selected query techniques. We implemented two model-driven acquisition functions for selecting the samples to be validated. This work uses transformer-based NMT systems; baseline model (BM), fully trained model (FTM) , active learning least confidence based model (ALLCM), and active learning margin sampling based model (ALMSM) when translating English to Hindi. The Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) metric has been used to evaluate system results. The BLEU scores of BM, FTM, ALLCM and ALMSM systems are 16.26, 22.56 , 24.54, and 24.20, respectively. The findings in this paper demonstrate that active learning techniques helps the model to converge early and improve the overall quality of the translation system.

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to maximize the translation performance. The models proposed recently for neural machine translation often belong to a family of encoder-decoders and encode a source sentence into a fixed-length vector from which a decoder generates a translation. In this paper, we conjecture that the use of a fixed-length vector is a bottleneck in improving the performance of this basic encoder-decoder architecture, and propose to extend this by allowing a model to automatically (soft-)search for parts of a source sentence that are relevant to predicting a target word, without having to form these parts as a hard segment explicitly. With this new approach, we achieve a translation performance comparable to the existing state-of-the-art phrase-based system on the task of English-to-French translation. Furthermore, qualitative analysis reveals that the (soft-)alignments found by the model agree well with our intuition.

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is the task of automatically detecting and correcting errors in text. The task not only includes the correction of grammatical errors, such as missing prepositions and mismatched subject-verb agreement, but also orthographic and semantic errors, such as misspellings and word choice errors respectively. The field has seen significant progress in the last decade, motivated in part by a series of five shared tasks, which drove the development of rule-based methods, statistical classifiers, statistical machine translation, and finally neural machine translation systems which represent the current dominant state of the art. In this survey paper, we condense the field into a single article and first outline some of the linguistic challenges of the task, introduce the most popular datasets that are available to researchers (for both English and other languages), and summarise the various methods and techniques that have been developed with a particular focus on artificial error generation. We next describe the many different approaches to evaluation as well as concerns surrounding metric reliability, especially in relation to subjective human judgements, before concluding with an overview of recent progress and suggestions for future work and remaining challenges. We hope that this survey will serve as comprehensive resource for researchers who are new to the field or who want to be kept apprised of recent developments.

由于当前语法纠错（GEC）任务中缺乏并行数据，基于序列框架的模型不能充分培训以获得更高的性能。我们提出了两个数据合成方法，可以控制误差率和合成数据对误差类型的比率。第一种方法是用固定概率损坏单声道语料库中的每个单词，包括更换，插入和删除。另一种方法是培训误差生成模型并进一步过滤模型的解码结果。对不同合成数据的实验表明，误差率为40％，误差类型的比率相同，可以提高模型性能。最后，我们综合了大约1亿数据并实现了与现有技术的可比性，它使用了我们使用的两倍。

This paper introduces the joint submission of the Beijing Jiaotong University and WeChat AI to the WMT'22 chat translation task for English-German. Based on the Transformer, we apply several effective variants. In our experiments, we utilize the pre-training-then-fine-tuning paradigm. In the first pre-training stage, we employ data filtering and synthetic data generation (i.e., back-translation, forward-translation, and knowledge distillation). In the second fine-tuning stage, we investigate speaker-aware in-domain data generation, speaker adaptation, prompt-based context modeling, target denoising fine-tuning, and boosted self-COMET-based model ensemble. Our systems achieve 0.810 and 0.946 COMET scores. The COMET scores of English-German and German-English are the highest among all submissions.

An attentional mechanism has lately been used to improve neural machine translation (NMT) by selectively focusing on parts of the source sentence during translation. However, there has been little work exploring useful architectures for attention-based NMT. This paper examines two simple and effective classes of attentional mechanism: a global approach which always attends to all source words and a local one that only looks at a subset of source words at a time. We demonstrate the effectiveness of both approaches on the WMT translation tasks between English and German in both directions. With local attention, we achieve a significant gain of 5.0 BLEU points over non-attentional systems that already incorporate known techniques such as dropout. Our ensemble model using different attention architectures yields a new state-of-the-art result in the WMT'15 English to German translation task with 25.9 BLEU points, an improvement of 1.0 BLEU points over the existing best system backed by NMT and an n-gram reranker. 1

虽然已经提出了许多背景感知神经机器转换模型在翻译中包含语境，但大多数模型在句子级别对齐的并行文档上培训结束到底。因为只有少数域（和语言对）具有此类文档级并行数据，所以我们无法在大多数域中执行准确的上下文感知转换。因此，我们通过将文档级语言模型结合到解码器中，提出了一种简单的方法将句子级转换模型转换为上下文感知模型。我们的上下文感知解码器仅在句子级并行语料库和单语演模板上构建;因此，不需要文档级并行数据。在理论上，这项工作的核心部分是使用上下文和当前句子之间的点亮互信息的语境信息的新颖表示。我们以三种语言对，英语到法语，英语到俄语，以及日语到英语，通过评估，通过评估以及对上下文意识翻译的对比测试。

本文介绍了一种新的数据增强方法，用于神经机器翻译，该方法可以在语言内部和跨语言内部实施更强的语义一致性。我们的方法基于条件掩盖语言模型（CMLM），该模型是双向的，可以在左右上下文以及标签上有条件。我们证明CMLM是生成上下文依赖性单词分布的好技术。特别是，我们表明CMLM能够通过在替换过程中对源和目标进行调节来实现语义一致性。此外，为了增强多样性，我们将软词替换的想法纳入了数据增强，该概念用词汇上的概率分布代替了一个单词。在不同量表的四个翻译数据集上进行的实验表明，总体解决方案会导致更现实的数据增强和更好的翻译质量。与最新作品相比，我们的方法始终取得了最佳性能，并且在基线上的提高了1.90个BLEU点。