Browser-based Multilingual Translation

Project Information

Bergamot

Grant agreement ID: 825303

DOI

10.3030/825303

Project closed

EC signature date 12 November 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 30 June 2022

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost

€ 2 999 096,25

EU contribution

€ 2 999 096,25

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Other (14)

Translation software with initial CPU optimizations
Final user interface
Finished extension
Adaptation to webpage metadata (report + code + systems)

Adaptation to webpage metadata report code systems

Feature complete + Remote User Testing

Feature complete Remote User Testing

Training-time domain adaptation (report + code)
Faster software including non-autoregressive
Multilingual systems and improved speed
Word-level Quality Estimation (report + code)

Wordlevel Quality Estimation report code

Building on Mozilla cluster
Basic Firefox integration
Final software release with full-stack optimization

Final software release with fullstack optimization

Runtime domain adaptation (report + code + systems)

Runtime domain adaptation report code systems

Adaptive Quality Estimation (report + code)

Adaptive Quality Estimation report code

Documents, reports (6)

First Dissemination Report
Weakly supervised Quality Estimation (report)
Collected webpage texts and metadata (report)
Ethics plan updated and reviewed
Improving translation using the online history of sourceside modifications (report)

Improving translation using the online history of sourcesidemodifications report

Lowering source sentence complexity (report)

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Public project web site

Public project web site online

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (3)

User interface with quality estimation
User interface for translation
Initial interface for outbound translation

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management plan

Publications

Conference proceedings (45)

Multi-Hypothesis Machine Translation Evaluation

Author(s): Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia, Francisco Guzmán
Published in: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, Page(s) 1218-1232
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.113

Compressing Neural Machine Translation Models with 4-bit Precision

Author(s): Alham Fikri Aji, Kenneth Heafield
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation, 2020, Page(s) 35-42
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.ngt-1.4

Not all parameters are born equal: Attention is mostly what you need

Author(s): Nikolay Bogoychev
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2021, Page(s) 363--374
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.blackboxnlp-1.28

Cheat Codes to Quantify Missing Source Information in Neural Machine Translation

Author(s): Proyag Pal, Kenneth Heafield
Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.177

Backtranslation Feedback Improves User Confidence in MT, Not Quality

Author(s): Vilém Zouhar, Michal Novák, Matúš Žilinec, Ondřej Bojar, Mateo Obregón, Robin L. Hill, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia, Lisa Yankovskaya
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2021, Page(s) 151–161
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.14

Costra 1.1: An Inquiry into Geometric Properties of Sentence Spaces

Author(s): Bojar, Ondřej; Barančíková, Petra
Published in: Proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue - TSD 2020, 2020
Publisher: Springer

Speed-optimized, Compact Student Models that Distill Knowledge from a Larger Teacher Model: the UEDIN-CUNI Submission to the WMT 2020 News Translation Task

Author(s): Ulrich Germann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Martin Popel, Radina Dobreva, Nikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield
Published in: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation, 2020, Page(s) 191--196
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Quality In, Quality Out: Learning from Actual Mistakes

Author(s): Frederic Blain, Nikolaos Aletras, Lucia Specia
Published in: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2020, Page(s) 145--153
Publisher: European Association for Machine Translation

Outbound Translation User Interface Ptakopet: A Pilot Study

Author(s): Zouhar, Vilém; Bojar, Ondřej
Published in: Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020, Page(s) 6967--6975
Publisher: European Language Resources Association
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.10835

Expand and Filter: CUNI and LMU Systems for the WNGT 2020 Duolingo Shared Task

Author(s): Jindřich Libovický, Zdeněk Kasner, Jindřich Helcl, Ondřej Dušek
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation, 2020, Page(s) 153-160
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.ngt-1.18

Translation Transformers Rediscover Inherent Data Domains

Author(s): Maksym Del, Elizaveta Korotkova, Mark Fishel
Published in: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, 2021, Page(s) 599–613
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation: It's Not as Fast as it Seems

Author(s): Jindřich Helcl, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch
Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022, Page(s) 1780–1790
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.129

Edinburgh at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Jointly Fishing for Word Embeddings and Definitions

Author(s): Pinzhen Chen, Zheng Zhao
Published in: Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2022), 2022, Page(s) 75-81
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.semeval-1.8

The Eval4NLP Shared Task on Explainable Quality Estimation: Overview and Results

Author(s): Marina Fomicheva, Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn, Wei Zhao, Steffen Eger, Yang Gao
Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Evaluation and Comparison of NLP Systems, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.eval4nlp-1.17

Efficiently Reusing Old Models Across Languages via Transfer Learning

Author(s): Tom Kocmi, Ondřej Bojar
Published in: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2020, Page(s) 19-28
Publisher: European Association for Machine Translation

Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Quality Estimation

Author(s): Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Erick Fonseca, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, André F. T. Martins
Published in: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation, 2020, Page(s) 743–764
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

CUNI systems for WMT21: Multilingual Low-Resource Translation for Indo-European Languages Shared Task

Author(s): Josef Jon, Michal Novák, João Paulo Aires, Dusan Varis, Ondřej Bojar
Published in: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, 2021, Page(s) 354–361
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation

Author(s): Amit Gajbhiye, Marina Fomicheva, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Frédéric Blain, Abiola Obamuyide, Nikolaos Aletras, and Lucia Specia
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021, 2021, Page(s) 5091-5099
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.452

TranslateLocally: Blazing-fast translation running on the local CPU

Author(s): Nikolay Bogoychev, Jelmer Van der Linde, Kenneth Heafield
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 2021, Page(s) 168–174
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-demo.20

Continual Quality Estimation with Online Bayesian Meta-Learning

Author(s): Abiola Obamuyide, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia
Published in: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2021, Page(s) 190–197
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.25

Multimodal Quality Estimation for Machine Translation

Author(s): Shu Okabe, Frédéric Blain, Lucia Specia
Published in: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, Page(s) 1233-1240
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.114

deepQuest-py: Large and distilled models for quality estimation

Author(s): Fernando Alva-Manchego, Abiola Obamuyide, Amit Gajbhiye, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia
Published in: : Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 2021, Page(s) 382-389
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-demo.42

CUNI System for the WMT19 Robustness Task

Author(s): Jindřich Helcl, Jindřich Libovický, Martin Popel
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1), 2019, Page(s) 539-543
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-5364

The University of Edinburgh’s Submissions to the WMT19 News Translation Task

Author(s): Rachel Bawden, Nikolay Bogoychev, Ulrich Germann, Roman Grundkiewicz, Faheem Kirefu, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Alexandra Birch
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1), 2019, Page(s) 103-115
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-5304

SAO WMT19 Test Suite: Machine Translation of Audit Reports

Author(s): Tereza Vojtěchová, Michal Novák, Miloš Klouček, Ondřej Bojar
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1), 2019, Page(s) 481-493
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-5355

CUNI Submission for Low-Resource Languages in WMT News 2019

Author(s): Tom Kocmi, Ondřej Bojar
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1), 2019, Page(s) 234-240
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-5322

Findings of the WMT 2019 Shared Tasks on Quality Estimation

Author(s): Erick Fonseca, Lisa Yankovskaya, André F. T. Martins, Mark Fishel, Christian Federmann
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 3: Shared Task Papers, Day 2), 2019, Page(s) 1-10
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-5401

Quality Estimation and Translation Metrics via Pre-trained Word and Sentence Embeddings

Author(s): Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Andre Tättar, Mark Fishel
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 3: Shared Task Papers, Day 2), 2019, Page(s) 101-105
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-5410

University of Tartu’s Multilingual Multi-domain WMT19 News Translation Shared Task Submission

Author(s): Andre Tättar, Elizaveta Korotkova, Mark Fishel
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1), 2019, Page(s) 382-385
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-5342

COSTRA 1.0: A Dataset of Complex Sentence Transformations

Author(s): Bojar, Ondřej; Barančíková, Petra
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2020), Issue 6, 2020, Page(s) 3535-3541, ISBN 979-10-95546-34-4
Publisher: European Language Resources Association

From Research to Production and Back: Ludicrously Fast Neural Machine Translation

Author(s): Young Jin Kim, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Hany Hassan, Alham Fikri Aji, Kenneth Heafield, Roman Grundkiewicz, Nikolay Bogoychev
Published in: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation, 2019, Page(s) 280-288
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/d19-5632

Exploring Supervised and Unsupervised Rewards in Machine Translation

Author(s): Julia Ive, Zixu Wang, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia
Published in: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.164

An Exploratory Study on Multilingual Quality Estimation

Author(s): Shuo Sun, Marina Fomicheva, Frédéric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Francisco Guzmán, and Lucia Specia
Published in: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2020, Page(s) 366-377
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Edinburgh’s Submissions to the 2020 Machine Translation Efficiency Task

Author(s): Nikolay Bogoychev, Roman Grundkiewicz, Alham Fikri Aji, Maximiliana Behnke, Kenneth Heafield, Sidharth Kashyap, Emmanouil-Ioannis Farsarakis, Mateusz Chudyk
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation, 2020, Page(s) 218-224
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.ngt-1.26

BERGAMOT-LATTE Submissions for the WMT20 Quality Estimation Shared Task

Author(s): Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya, Frédéric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Mark Fishel, Francisco Guzmán, Lucia Specia
Published in: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation,, 2020, Page(s) 1010--1017
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Character Mapping and Ad-hoc Adaptation: Edinburgh’s IWSLT 2020 Open Domain Translation System

Author(s): Pinzhen Chen, Nikolay Bogoychev, Ulrich Germann
Published in: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, 2020, Page(s) 122-129
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.iwslt-1.14

Outbound Translation User Interface Ptakopet: A Pilot Study

Author(s): Zouhar, Vilém; Bojar, Ondřej
Published in: Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020, Page(s) 6967-6975, ISBN 979-10-95546-34-4
Publisher: European Language Resources Association

Direct Exploitation of Attention Weights for Translation Quality Estimation

Author(s): Lisa Yankovskaya, Mark Fishel
Published in: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

CUNI Systems for WMT21: Terminology Translation Shared Task

Author(s): Josef Jon, Michal Novák, João Paulo Aires, Dusan Varis, Ondřej Bojar
Published in: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Findings of the 2019 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19)

Author(s): Loïc Barrault, Ondřej Bojar, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn, Shervin Malmasi, Christof Monz, Mathias Müller, Santanu Pal, Matt Post, Marcos Zampieri
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1), 2019, Page(s) 1-61
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w19-5301

End-to-End Lexically Constrained Machine Translation for Morphologically Rich Languages

Author(s): Josef Jon, João Paulo Aires, Dusan Varis, and Ondřej Bojar
Published in: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2021, Page(s) 4019--4033
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.311

Findings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation

Author(s): Kenneth Heafield, Hiroaki Hayashi, Yusuke Oda, Ioannis Konstas, Andrew Finch, Graham Neubig, Xian Li, Alexandra Birch
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation, 2020, Page(s) 1-9
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.ngt-1.1

The University of Edinburgh's English-German and English-Hausa Submissions to the WMT21 News Translation Task

Author(s): Pinzhen Chen, Jindřich Helcl, Ulrich Germann, Laurie Burchell, Nikolay Bogoychev, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Jonas Waldendorf, Alexandra Birch, Kenneth Heafield
Published in: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

The University of Edinburgh's submission to the German-to-English and English-to-German Tracks in the WMT 2020 News Translation and Zero-shot Translation Robustness Task

Author(s): Ulrich Germann
Published in: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation, 2020, Page(s) 197--201
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Low-Rank Softmax Can Have Unargmaxable Classes in Theory but Rarely in Practice

Author(s): Andreas Grivas, Nikolay Bogoychev, Adam Lopez
Published in: Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.465

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Exploring Benefits of Transfer Learning in Neural Machine Translation

Author(s): Kocmi, Tom
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Extending Ptakopět for Machine Translation User Interaction Experiments

Author(s): Vilém Zouhar; Michal Novák
Published in: The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Issue 00326585, 2020, Page(s) 129--142, ISSN 0032-6585
Publisher: Chalres University
DOI: 10.14712/00326585.008

Replacing Linguists with Dummies: A Serious Need for Trivial Baselines in Multi-Task Neural Machine Translation

Author(s): Daniel Kondratyuk, Ronald Cardenas, Ondřej Bojar
Published in: The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Issue 113/1, 2019, Page(s) 31-40, ISSN 1804-0462
Publisher: Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
DOI: 10.2478/pralin-2019-0005

Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation

Author(s): Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya, Frédéric Blain, Francisco Guzmán, Mark Fishel, Nikolaos Aletras, Vishrav Chaudhary, Lucia Specia
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, ISSN 2307-387X
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics