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Alexandre Bérard

4 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus

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Papers by this author

  1. MultiVec: a Multilingual and Multilevel Representation Learning Toolkit for NLP

    2016

    We present MultiVec, a new toolkit for computing continuous representations for text at different granularity levels (word-level or sequences of words).MultiVec includes Mikolov et al. [2013b]'s word2vec features, Le and Mikolov [2014]'s paragraph vector (batch …

  2. End-to-End Automatic Speech Translation of Audiobooks

    2018

    We investigate end-to-end speech-to-text translation on a corpus of audiobooks specifically augmented for this task. Previous works investigated the extreme case where source language transcription is not available during learning nor decoding, but we also …

  3. Continual Learning in Multilingual NMT via Language-Specific Embeddings

    2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

    This paper proposes a technique for adding a new source or target language to an existing multilingual NMT model without re-training it on the initial set of languages. It consists in replacing the shared vocabulary …

  4. Listen and Translate: A Proof of Concept for End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation

    2016 · arXiv (Cornell University)

    This paper proposes a first attempt to build an end-to-end speech-to-text translation system, which does not use source language transcription during learning or decoding. We propose a model for direct speech-to-text translation, which gives promising …