Unlocking Zero-Resource Machine Translation to Support New Languages in Google Translate

Posted by Isaac Caswell and Ankur Bapna, Research Scientists, Google Translate

Machine translation (MT) technology has made significant advances in recent years, as deep learning has been integrated with natural language processing (NLP). Performance on research benchmarks like WMT have soared, and translation services have improved in quality and expanded to include new languages. Nevertheless, while existing translation services cover languages spoken by the majority of people world wide, they only include around 100 languages in total, just over …

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