Reading list

Topic Paper
Foundations Neural Machine Translation and Sequence-to-sequence Models: A Tutorial by Graham Neubig
Memorandum on Translation by Warren Weaver
Translation by Martin Kay
Good applications for crummy machine translation by Church and Hovy
Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation by Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, Wei-Jing Zhu
A Structured Review of the Validity of BLEU by Ehud Reiter
Attaining the Unattainable? Reassessing Claims of Human Parity in Neural Machine Translation by Antonio Toral, Sheila Castilho, Ke Hu, Andy Way
Six Challenges for Neural Machine Translation by Philipp Koehn, Rebecca Knowles
Alignment by Dekai Wu
Data Matters Automatically Extracting Challenge Sets for Non-Local Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation by Leshem Choshen, Omri Abend
On the Impact of Various Types of Noise on Neural Machine Translation by Huda Khayrallah and Philipp Koehn
Domain, Translationese and Noise in Synthetic Data for Neural Machine Translation by Nikolay Bogoychev, Rico Sennrich
What kind of language is hard to language model? by Sebastian J. Mielke, Ryan Cotterell, Kyle Gorman, Brian Roark, Jason Eisner
Diversity and Latent Variable Models Mixture Models for Diverse Machine Translation: Tricks of the Trade by Tianxiao Shen, Myle Ott, Michael Auli, MarcAurelio Ranzato
Generating Diverse Translations with Sentence Codes by Shu, Nakayama and Cho
Search Engine Guided Neural Machine Translation by Jiatao Gu, Yong Wang, Kyunghyun Cho, Victor O.K. Li
Comparison of Diverse Decoding Methods from Conditional Language Models by Daphne Ippolito, Reno Kriz, Joao Sedoc, Maria Kustikova, Chris Callison-Burch
Latent-Variable Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation with Deterministic Inference Using a Delta Posterior by Raphael Shu, Jason Lee, Hideki Nakayama, Kyunghyun Cho
Combining Symbolic and Neural Models Incorporating discrete translation lexicons into neural machine translation by Philip Arthur, Graham Neubig, and Satoshi Nakamura.
Fast Lexically Constrained Decoding with Dynamic Beam Allocation for Neural Machine Translation by Matt Post, David Vilar
Neural Machine Translation with External Phrase Memory by Yaohua Tang, Fandong Meng, Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li, Philip L.H. Yu
A Discriminative Neural Model for Cross-Lingual Word Alignment by Elias Stengel-Eskin, Tzu-ray Su, Matt Post, Benjamin Van Durme
Neural Interactive Machine Translation by Rebecca Knowles and Philipp Koehn
Optimization Sequence-to-sequence learning as beam-search optimization. by Sam Wiseman and Alexander M. Rush.
Beyond BLEU: Training neural machine translation with semantic similarity. by John Wieting, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Kevin Gimpel, and Graham Neubig.
Minimum Risk Training for Neural Machine Translation by Shiqi Shen, Yong Cheng, Zhongjun He, Wei He, Hua Wu, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu
Classical Structured Prediction Losses for Sequence to Sequence Learning by Sergey Edunov, Myle Ott, Michael Auli, David Grangier, MarcAurelio Ranzato
Discourse Evaluating Discourse Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation by Rachel Bawden, Rico Sennrich, Alexandra Birch, Barry Haddow
Learning to Remember Translation History with a Continuous Cache by Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Shuming Shi, Tong Zhang
Contextual Neural Model for Translating Bilingual Multi-Speaker Conversations by Sameen Maruf, André F. T. Martins, Gholamreza Haffari
Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation Learns Anaphora Resolution by Elena Voita, Pavel Serdyukov, Rico Sennrich, Ivan Titov
Multitask and Multilingual learning The Missing Ingredient in Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation by Naveen Arivazhagan, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat, Roee Aharoni, Melvin Johnson, Wolfgang Macherey
Consistency by Agreement in Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation by Maruan Al-Shedivat, Ankur Parikh
Multilingual Denoising Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation by Yinhan Liu, Jiatao Gu, Naman Goyal, Xian Li, Sergey Edunov, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Mike Lewis, Luke Zettlemoyer
Adaptive Knowledge Sharing in Multi-Task Learning: Improving Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation by Poorya Zaremoodi, Wray Buntine, Gholamreza Haffari
Beyond Denotation in Cross-Lingual Models Multilingual Connotation Frames: A Case Study on Social Media for Targeted Sentiment Analysis and Forecast by Hannah Rashkin, Eric Bell, Yejin Choi, Svitlana Volkova
Metaphor detection with cross-lingual model transfer by Yulia Tsvetkov, Leonid Boytsov, Anatole Gershman, Eric Nyberg, Chris Dyer
How Translation Alters Sentiment by Saif M. Mohammad, Mohammad Salameh, Svetlana Kiritchenko
What Level of Quality can Neural Machine Translation Attain on Literary Text? by Antonio Toral, Andy Way