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The French/English language pair was the problem machine translation research started with and has seen the most work. There are also greater similarities than
by pigscantfly 10y ago
The French/English language pair was the problem machine translation research started with and has seen the most work. There are also greater similarities than most language pairs between those two due to the Norman conquest in 1066.
- DonaldFisk 10y agoI accept your first point, but I disagree with your second - 1066 and all that notwithstanding, English is still very much a Germanic language, and grammatically very different from French.
- pigscantfly 10y agoYou're right; I was arguing that French and English are more highly correlated than a pair of languages chosen uniformly at random and therefore easier for MT, but I could have made that more clear. I think the difference in accuracy between English <--> French and English <--> German does largely come down to historical academic preferences and data availability, as opposed to linguistic reasons. English <--> French vs. English <--> Mandarin (for example) is a different story.
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