Andy Way

Attaining the unattainable? Reassessing claimsof human parity in neural machine translation

2018

We reassess a recent study (Hassan et al., 2018) that claimed that machine translation (MT) has reached human parity for the translation of news from Chinese into English, using pairwise ranking and considering three variables …

Temporality as Seen through Translation: A Case Study on Hindi Texts

2017 · Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh)

Temporality hassignificantly contributed to various aspects of Natural Language Processing applications. In this paper, we determine the extent to which temporal orientation is preserved when a sentence is translated manually and automatically from the Hindi …

Multi-Level Structured Self-Attentions for Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Attention mechanisms are often used in deep neural networks for distantly supervised relation extraction (DS-RE) to distinguish valid from noisy instances. However, traditional 1-D vector attention models are insufficient for the learning of different contexts …

Identifying temporality of word senses based on minimum cuts

2016 · Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology)

The ability to capture time information is\nessential to many natural language processing and information retrieval applications. Therefore, a lexical resource associating word senses to their temporal orientation might be crucial for the computational tasks aiming …

Neural Machine Translation for translating into Croatian and Serbian

2020 · Dublin City University Open Access Institutional Repository (Dublin City University)

In this work, we systematically investigate different set-ups for training of neural machine translation (NMT) systems for translation into Croatian and Serbian, two closely related South Slavic languages. We explore English and German as source …

Findings of the WMT 2024 Shared Task on Discourse-Level Literary Translation

2024

Longyue Wang, Siyou Liu, Chenyang Lyu, Wenxiang Jiao, Xing Wang, Jiahao Xu, Zhaopeng Tu, Yan Gu, Weiyu Chen, Minghao Wu, Liting Zhou, Philipp Koehn, Andy Way, Yulin Yuan. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine …

Is Neural Machine Translation the New State of the Art?

2017 · ˜The œPrague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics

Abstract This paper discusses neural machine translation (NMT), a new paradigm in the MT field, comparing the quality of NMT systems with statistical MT by describing three studies using automatic and human evaluation methods. Automatic …

Post-editing Effort of a Novel With Statistical and Neural Machine Translation

2018 · Frontiers in Digital Humanities

We conduct the first experiment in the literature in which a novel is translated automatically and then post-edited by professional literary translators. Our case study is Warbreaker, a popular fantasy novel originally written in English, …

Getting Gender Right in Neural Machine Translation

2018

Speakers of different languages must attend to and encode strikingly different aspects of the world in order to use their language correctly One such difference is related to the way gender is expressed in a …