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We present AutoNMT, a framework to streamline the research of seq-to-seq models by automating the data pipeline (i.e., file management, data preprocessing, and exploratory analysis), automating experimentation in a toolkit-agnostic manner, which allows users to use either their own models or existing seq-to-seq toolkits such as Fairseq or OpenNMT, and finally, automating the report generation (plots and summaries). Furthermore, this library comes with its own seq-to-seq toolkit so that users can easily customize it for non-standard tasks., Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures

Despite the advances achieved by neural models in sequence to sequence learning, exploited in a variety of tasks, they still make errors. In many use cases, these are corrected by a human expert in a posterior revision process. The interactive-predictive framework aims to minimize the human effort spent on this process by considering partial corrections for iteratively refining the hypothesis. In this work, we generalize the interactive-predictive approach, typically applied in to machine translation field, to tackle other multimodal problems namely, image and video captioning. We study the application of this framework to multimodal neural sequence to sequence models. We show that, following this framework, we approximately halve the effort spent for correcting the outputs generated by the automatic systems. Moreover, we deploy our systems in a publicly accessible demonstration, that allows to better understand the behavior of the interactive-predictive framework., To appear at IbPRIA 2019

Neural machine translation has meant a revolution of the field. Nevertheless, post-editing the outputs of the system is mandatory for tasks requiring high translation quality. Post-editing offers a unique opportunity for improving neural machine translation systems, using online learning techniques and treating the post-edited translations as new, fresh training data. We review classical learning methods and propose a new optimization algorithm. We thoroughly compare online learning algorithms in a post-editing scenario. Results show significant improvements in translation quality and effort reduction.