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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Multilingual k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation
%A Stap, David
%A Monz, Christof
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Pino, Juan
%Y Bali, Kalika
%S Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2023
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Singapore
%F stap-monz-2023-multilingual
%X k-nearest-neighbor machine translation has demonstrated remarkable improvements in machine translation quality by creating a datastore of cached examples. However, these improvements have been limited to high-resource language pairs, with large datastores, and remain a challenge for low-resource languages. In this paper, we address this issue by combining representations from multiple languages into a single datastore. Our results consistently demonstrate substantial improvements not only in low-resource translation quality (up to +3.6 BLEU), but also for high-resource translation quality (up to +0.5 BLEU). Our experiments show that it is possible to create multilingual datastores that are a quarter of the size, achieving a 5.3x speed improvement, by using linguistic similarities for datastore creation.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.571
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.571
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.571
%P 9200-9208

Markdown (Informal)

[Multilingual k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.571) (Stap & Monz, EMNLP 2023)

• Multilingual k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation (Stap & Monz, EMNLP 2023)

ACL

• David Stap and Christof Monz. 2023. Multilingual k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 9200–9208, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.