mlsanityData to 14 Oct 2026

A neural interlingua for multilingual machine translation

arXiv 1804.08198 ↗First posted 23 Apr 2018cs.CLcited by 29

Not on the map. Why?

Abstract (arXiv)

We incorporate an explicit neural interlingua into a multilingual encoder-decoder neural machine translation (NMT) architecture. We demonstrate that our model learns a language-independent representation by performing direct zero-shot translation (without using pivot translation), and by using the source sentence embeddings to create an English Yelp review classifier that, through the mediation of the neural interlingua, can also classify French and German reviews. Furthermore, we show that, despite using a smaller number of parameters than a pairwise collection of bilingual NMT models, our approach produces comparable BLEU scores for each language pair in WMT15.

Key facts. Cited by 29 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 23 Apr 2018.

Builds on

No reference list yet.

Built on by

Cited by year (2026 to 14 Oct)

Citing papers per year: 2021: 11; 2022: 4; 2023: 6; 2024: 3; 2025: 3; 2026: 2.

29 papers.

Sort:

By area:

  1. 2021Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages: A Surveycited by 109
  2. 2021Contrastive Learning for Many-to-many Multilingual Neural Machine Translationcited by 108
  3. 2021Learning Shared Semantic Space for Speech-to-Text Translationcited by 49
  4. 2021A Survey on Low-Resource Neural Machine Translationcited by 16
  5. 2022T-Modules: Translation Modules for Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Machine Translationcited by 16
  6. 2022MMTAfrica: Multilingual Machine Translation for African Languagescited by 11
  7. 2023Improving Zero-shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation by Leveraging Cross-lingual Consistency Regularizationcited by 10
  8. 2021Language Embeddings for Typology and Cross-lingual Transfer Learningcited by 8
  9. 2021Towards Making the Most of Multilingual Pretraining for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translationcited by 8
  10. 2023Neural Machine Translation for the Indigenous Languages of the Americas: An Introductioncited by 7
  11. 2021Do Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Models Contain Language Pair Specific Attention Heads?cited by 6
  12. 2022Adapting to Non-Centered Languages for Zero-shot Multilingual Translationcited by 6
17 more
  1. 2024Can Machine Translation Bridge Multilingual Pretraining and Cross-lingual Transfer Learning?cited by 6
  2. 2023The Interpreter Understands Your Meaning: End-to-end Spoken Language Understanding Aided by Speech Translationcited by 4
  3. 2021Improving Zero-shot Neural Machine Translation on Language-specific Encoders-Decoderscited by 3
  4. 2025The Gold Medals in an Empty Room: Diagnosing Metalinguistic Reasoning in LLMs with Camlangcited by 3
  5. 2021Multilingual Neural Machine Translation:Can Linguistic Hierarchies Help?cited by 2
  6. 2022Unifying the Convergences in Multilingual Neural Machine Translationcited by 2
  7. 2025High-Dimensional Interlingual Representations of Large Language Modelscited by 2
  8. 2021Self-Learning for Zero Shot Neural Machine Translationcited by 1
  9. 2021Unsupervised Transfer Learning in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Cross-Lingual Word Embeddingscited by 1
  10. 2023TPDM: Selectively Removing Positional Information for Zero-shot Translation via Token-Level Position Disentangle Modulecited by 1
  11. 2024LCS: A Language Converter Strategy for Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translationcited by 1
  12. 2023Variable-length Neural Interlingua Representations for Zero-shot Neural Machine Translationcited by 0
  13. 2023Direct Neural Machine Translation with Task-level Mixture of Experts modelscited by 0
  14. 2024I Have an Attention Bridge to Sell You: Generalization Capabilities of Modular Translation Architecturescited by 0
  15. 2025Registering Source Tokens to Target Language Spaces in Multilingual Neural Machine Translationcited by 0
  16. 2026The Interlingua Hypothesis: LLMs Translate via a Latent Task-agnostic Feature Spacecited by 0
  17. 2026ORCA: Evaluating LLMs on Data Science Code Translationcited by 0