The value of large corpora for translation may be diminishing.. In particular, Facebook have achieved impressive results using unsupervised ML for translation:

The value of large corpora for translation may be diminishing.. In particular, Facebook have achieved impressive results using unsupervised ML for translation: https://code.fb.com/ai-research/unsupervised-machine-translation-a-novel-approach-to-provide-fast-accurate-translations-for-more-languages/ https://code.fb.com/ai-research/unsupervised-machine-transla... The basic idea is to use word vector embeddings to build a source<->target dictionary, then combine this with a language recognition model to iteratively bootstrap a set of source<->target training examples for use with a conventional ML approach.