Ching Wing Kwok


2025

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ViDove: A Translation Agent System with Multimodal Context and Memory-Augmented Reasoning
Yichen Lu | Wei Dai | Jiaen Liu | Ching Wing Kwok | Zongheng Wu | Xudong Xiao | Ao Sun | Sheng Fu | Jianyuan Zhan | Yian Wang | Takatomo Saito | Sicheng Lai
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

LLM-based translation agents have achieved highly human-like translation results and are capable of handling longer and more complex contexts with greater efficiency. However, they are typically limited to text-only inputs. In this paper, we introduce ViDove, a translation agent system designed for multimodal input. Inspired by the workflow of human translators, ViDove leverages visual and contextual background information to enhance the translation process. Additionally, we integrate a multimodal memory system and long-short term memory modules enriched with domain-specific knowledge, enabling the agent to perform more accurately and adaptively in real-world scenarios. As a result, ViDove achieves significantly higher translation quality in both subtitle generation and general translation tasks, with a 28% improvement in BLEU scores and a 15% improvement in SubER compared to previous state-of-the-art baselines. Moreover, we introduce DoveBench, a new benchmark for long-form automatic video subtitling and translation, featuring 17 hours of high-quality, human-annotated data. Our demo is available here: https://vidove.willbe03.com/