Questions tagged [machine-translation]
Machine translation in a data science context refers to the process of using machine learning techniques to translate input provided in one language into output in another. It includes topics referring to using text/corpus data, neural machine translation (NMT), deep learning, and speech recognition.
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Why does Bahdanau Attention Have to be Causal?
Using the Bahdanau attention layer on Tensorflow for time series prediction, although conceptually it is similar to NLP applications.
This is how the minimal example code for a single layer looks like....
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Self Attention vs LSTM with Attention for NMT
I am trying to compare the
A: Transformer-based architecture for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) from the Attention is All You Need paper, with
B: an architecture based on Bi-directional LSTM's in ...
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Questions of understanding - Fast Lexically Constrained Decoding with Dynamic Beam Allocation for Neural Machine Translation
I'm currently analysing the paper Fast Lexically Constrained Decoding with Dynamic Beam Allocation for Neural Machine Translation (Post, Vilar 2018): https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06609
I have ...
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Training NMT models for noisy social media roman text
I am trying to train an NMT model where the source side is roman text of Asian languages from social media, and target side is English. Note that since roman text is not native to Asia, the ...
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Paraphrasing a sentence and changing the tone of it
I am trying to make a model that is capable of translating a sentence into a new and a better form. I would like the model to change the tone and also give it some character. I am using this in my web ...
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A good way to organize/store a lot of datasets
In machine translation, we often have bilingual dataset, e.g. for German-English and French-English we will have something that looks like this:
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How to do batch inference on Hugging face pretrained models?
I want to do batch inference on MarianMT model. Here's the code:
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Machine Learning for analyzing and generating sentences from given text inputs
I'm trying to create a program that will translate Sign Language to Text and apply NLP so that the text is understandable to human. I've used CNN for recognizing sign language but I don't know how to ...
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Reason for adding 1 to word index for sequence modeling
I notice in many of the tutorials 1 is added to the word_index. For example considering a sample code snippet inspired from <...
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Why are mBART50 language codes in an unusual format?
I am trying to use mBART for multilingual translation(about 30 languages) but I am facing an issue with using it as I am currently using langid to identify the languages then load mBART and translate ...
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Issue translating large amounts of tweets using Google Translate
I am working on translating large amounts of tweets using this deep-translator which uses the Google Translate API.
Initially everything was fine and tweets were translated with no problems whatsoever ...
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I want to start studying the field of machine translation [closed]
I've studied Japanese language and literature and passed some linguistic courses and now as for my masters, I want to study natural language processing and especially machine translation. so I tried ...
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How to create a Document Categorization Classifier for different contexts of Documents
I have a doubt solving a test. The idea here is to demonstrate the NLP and Machine Translation abilities.
The Dataset is a multilingual, multi-context set of documents. The dataset is divided on ...
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Question of pretraining text-generation task, it seems that pretraining is not work for a small model?
My task is to generate keywords from sentences.
I pretrain a text-generation model. I mask the sentences' tokens and predict the whole sentences' tokens.
Pretraining batch_size = 8 and step = 1000000
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Passing Dependency/Constituency trees to a Neural Machine Translator
I am working on a project on Neural Machine Translation in the English-Irish domain. I am not an expert and have researched entirely on my own for a technology exhibition so apologies if my question ...
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What is the difference between register_buffer() and parameter.detach() in PyTorch?
I am writing a PositionalEmbedding() module which is an implementation based on "Attention Is All You Need" using PyTorch. According to the paper, there ...
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Unusually High BLEU score on a NMT model
This is the project on Neural Machine Translation on the English/Irish language pair. I have been spending the past month or so trying to train a good baseline to do 'experimentation' on. I have a ...
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BPE vs WordPiece Tokenization - when to use / which?
What's the general tradeoff between choosing BPE vs WordPiece Tokenization? When is one preferable to the other? Are there any differences in model performance between the two? I'm looking for a ...
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Attention network without hidden state?
I was wondering how useful the encoder's hidden state is for an attention network. When I looked into the structure of an attention model, this is what I found a model generally looks like:
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Predicting correct match of French to English food descriptions
I have a training and test set of food descriptions pairs (please, see example below)
First name in a pair is a name of food in French
and second word is this food description in English.
Traing set ...
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Which is the best way to install Moses for SMT?
I have tried many ways but it always ended up in error. My Configuration: Ubuntu 16.04, Python 3.6.10 The error that I am unable to solve is: undefined reference to
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Feeding XLM-R embeddings to neural machine translation?
I’m very new to the field of deep learning. My aim is to make a translation between Catalan to Catalan Sign Language. The grammar of the two languages is different
Input: He sells food.
Output (...
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Transformer seq2seq model and loading embeddings from XLM-RoBERTa
Is it possible to feed embeddings from XLM- RoBERTa to transformer seq2seq model? I'm working on NMT that translates verbal language sentences to sign language sentences (e.g Input: He sells food. ...
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Seq2Seq for sentence correction
I have a task in hand where I get a dirty formed sentence and need to correct it. Examples are, "StackOverflow best question answering platform" to be converted to "StackOverflow is best question ...
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Language translation with convolutional neural network
Many examples of language translation neural networks:
"the cat sat on the mat" -> [model] -> "le chat etait assis sur le tapis"
use RNN, and in particular LSTM. See for example Sentences language ...
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How can I finetune XLM-R for neural machine translation between the same language(Catalan to Catalan-with different grammar structure))?
Can I fine-tune XLM-R to do something similar to https://www.guru99.com/seq2seq-model.html
(encoder-decoder architecture or any other way that perform good in small dataset - around 1000)
For example:
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Can I fine-tune BERT, ELMO or XLnet for Seq2Seq neural machine translation?
I'm working on neural machine translator that translates English sentences to American sign language sentences(e.g below). I've a quite small dataset - around 1000 sentence pairs. I'm wondering if it ...
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What is the bleu score of professional human translators?
Machine translation models are usually evaluated using bleu score. I want to get some intuition for this score. What is the bleu score of professional human translator?
I know it depends on the ...
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Is it possible feed BERT to seq2seq encoder/decoder NMT (for low resource language)?
I'm working on NMT model which the input and the target sentences are from the same language (but the grammar differs). I'm planning to pre-train and use BERT since I'm working on small dataset and ...
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Sentences language translation with neural network, with a simple layer structure (if possible sequential)
Context: Many language sentences translation systems (e.g. French to English) with neural networks use a seq2seq structure:
"the cat sat on the mat" -> [Seq2Seq ...
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Why is the decoder not a part of BERT architecture?
I can't see how BERT makes predictions without using a decoder unit, which was a part of all models before it including transformers and standard RNNs. How are output predictions made in the BERT ...
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Should the data be shuffled on a translation dataset
As reference to Why should the data be shuffled for machine learning tasks I was curious if this is the case for neural-machine-translation.
I would like to analyze why I think this is the case for ...
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How can I feed BERT to neural machine translation?
I am trying to feed the input and target sentences to an NMT model, I am trying to use BERT here, But I don't have any idea how ...
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Weight matrices in transformers
I am trying to understand the transformer architecture.
I am aware that the encoder/decoder contains multiple stacked self attention layers. Further each layer contains multiple heads. For example ...
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where to start in natural language processing for a language
My native language is a regional language and few people speak it. I have some assignements in a machine learning course and i was thinking about doing some natural languge processing on my native ...
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Help making a custom categorical loss function in Keras
I am a bit new to machine learning, and I'm trying to get the basics working towards a bigger project using a very simple encoder-decoder model. It looks like this:
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Can BERT embeddings be used to reproduce the original content of the text?
From what I understand, BERT provides contextualized embeddings that are not deterministic the way Word2Vec embeddings (i.e. the word "Queen" doesn't always produce the same vector, it'll be different ...
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searching for vocabulary for machine translation
Searching for DE-EN vocabulary, that I can use in my machine translation.
It should consist of DE-EN phrases, words, sentences etc.
Got one from here http://www.manythings.org/anki/ , but searching ...
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Using Google Translate API to create a Translation Dataset
Is it a good idea? ;-)
Is it legal to do so? Is it legal to release such a dataset to public?
Say I have a language X for which I want to create a dataset for translation to/from English, for which I ...
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NMT, What if we do not pass input for decoder?
For transformer-based neural machine translation (NMT), take English-Chinese for example, we pass English for encoder and use decoder input(Chinese) attend to encoder output, then final output.
What ...
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What is Bit Per Character?
What is Bits per Character (bpc) metric which has been used to measure the model accuracy with reference to text8 and ...
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Why is hard for neural machine translation model to learn rare words?
i'm kinda new with neural machine translation. I've read some papers, authors usually limit the size of vocabulary by replace rare words by unk token. In this paper, they said that "...NMT model ...
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Is it normal when BLEU score on filtered data by length is greater than BLEU score on whole data
I am creating 2 neural machine translation model (model A and B with different improvements each model) with fairseq-py. When I evaluate model with bleu score, model A BLEU score is 25.9 and model C ...
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Multi-Head attention mechanism in transformer and need of feed forward neural network
After reading the paper, Attention is all you need, I have two questions:
1. What is the need of a multi-head attention mechanism?
The paper says that:
"Multi-head attention allows the model to ...
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Back-Translation model for German and English
Do you know of any pre-trained models for back translation between German and English? I am aware that there are ways to include a monolingual corpus into the training of a machine translation model (...
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Embedding Values in word2vec
Are the embedding values for a particular word using word2vec Skipgram model the weights of the first layer or the softmax output of the function?
Does the embedding value change according to the ...
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What techniques are used for machine translation besides RNNs?
I am doing a university report and it seems that encode-decode RNNs are optimal for machine translation. I would like something else to compare it to, but I can't seem to make a proper Google search ...
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How to build a machine translation system for a new language
I am trying to figure out what are the options for building a natural language translation model for a language that is not yet supported by existing machine translations.
The project is to build a ...
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Implementing back translation as a data augmentation for text classification
Since back translation English->other language -> English seems like quite a useful data augmentation technique , I wanted to experiment with it. E.g. it occurred to me that languages from very ...
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How to create a language translator from scratch?
I want to create a translator which can translate English, Korean and Tamil sentences into English sentence, I tried googletrans but is there any way to create something better than that using DL and ...
