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Impressive indeed. Would you happen to know if Facebook is able to translate without using English as an intermediate language? For example, from Dutch directly
by dmcy22 9y ago
Impressive indeed. Would you happen to know if Facebook is able to translate without using English as an intermediate language? For example, from Dutch directly to French, without needing to go from Dutch to English to French.
- zlynx 9y agoReminds me reading about Google's new translator. It apparently uses a unique internal language it developed during training. All the languages it knows go through this internal language / neural pattern. From what I recall reading, Google has people researching this internal language to see if they can discover any new interesting things about human thought. https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/googles-ai-translation-tool-seems-to-have-invented-its-own-secret-internal-language/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/googles-ai-translation-too...
- landon32 9y agoI don't know Facebook's specifics, but typically in research they will train a wide variety of examples, e.g. English -> French French -> English English -> German French -> German
- etiam 9y agoIsn't that what they are doing? My impression of the pure DL approaches is that the preferred way to go about it is to map from each available language example, via a common latent representation, to every other available language example. The common currency is not English but a vector space representing something much more akin to the meaning underlying the statements.