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The mentioned Japanese->English->Korean combination is one of the worst possible things to do. Both Korean and Japanese are very different from English, while s
by glandium 10y ago
The mentioned Japanese->English->Korean combination is one of the worst possible things to do. Both Korean and Japanese are very different from English, while similar to each other to some extent. Direct translation from one to the other would actually have much better results than translating back to Korean the (likely broken) English you get from Japanese.
Edit: I do realize they're not talking about successive translations, but that's essentially how the training ends up happening, isn't it?
A better example, IMHO, would have been three very different languages, like English, Japanese and Russian.
- xbmcuser 10y agoIt is not translating from Japanese>English>korean it learned how to translate Japanese<>English Korean<>English now it knows how to translate Japanese<>Korean. In laymen terms it understands Korean and Japanese so can translate between them without needing examples of Japanese<>Korean translations.
- paulsutter 10y agoI'm guessing the downvotes here are based on your wording, "worst possible thing to do", and not your core point that Korean and Japanese are grammatically very similar. You're right that the test would be even more interesting with three very different languages. But it's still pretty impressive with Korean, English, and Japanese as shown, despite the similarity.