Google S Massive Language Translation Work Identifies Where It Goofs Up
Examine the failures, obviously. And that is the interesting work that Google machine learning scientists related this month in a massive research paper on multi-lingual translation, “Building Machine Translation Systems for the Next Thousand Languages,” posted on Arxiv. “Despite tremendous progress in low-resource machine translation, the number of languages for which widely-available, general-domain MT systems have been built has been limited to around 100, which is a small fraction of the over 7000+ languages that are spoken in the world today,” write lead author Ankur Bapna and colleagues....