Issues related to translation of text or speech as done by computer programs. Can refer to the software, models, methodology, algorithms, performance, and theory of MT (machine translation), including issues in pre- and post-processing.
Questions tagged [machine-translation]
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Is www.babelfish.com/success/ a rule-based engine?
Can anybody tell me if BabelFish translator is rule-based?
I'd like to stress that "Babelfish translator" and "Yahoo!Babelfish" are not the same thing. In fact:
"Yahoo!Babelfish" is owned by Yahoo! In May 2012 it was replaced by Bing Translator, to…
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How good is a round-trip translation as a machine translation quality evaluation technique?
I recently had a text translated into Icelandic. When I machine translate that human translation back to English, it came out as quite awkward English. However, when I machine translate the machine translation back to English, it came out sounding…
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Noisy channel model explanation
In the noisy channel model, for a given input sentence D we are given a set of possible translations A1, A2, A3, .., Ai, ... We want to pick the best possible translation, hence argmax(P(Ai|D)). When maximizing the probability, we use the formula…
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Translating unknown language with AI
I've read around the web there are AI's they used to translate ancient languages, even without any comparation with known texts.
What I wasn't unable to find, is the specifications of those AIs, and the procedure they used to obtain a working…
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Does machine learning still need a better linguistic theory?
Machine learning equipped with artificial intelligence is looking very promising in the field of machines understanding various human languages including English and translating one into another.
I'm no expert in the state-of-the-art machine…
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Will machine translation eclipse the need for human translation some day and if so, by what date do you predict?
I recently listened to a TEDTalk given by Louis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo. During this talk, which he gave in 2011, he addresses the topic of machine translation a bit. Specificially, he says this:
Now, some of you may say, why…
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