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It's interesting to note that a lot of natural language processing is English-centered. It's clear that English natural language processing is way ahead of the
by jasonjei 16y ago
It's interesting to note that a lot of natural language processing is English-centered. It's clear that English natural language processing is way ahead of the curve, but based on the quality of Chinese results on Google Translate, I take it Asian languages don't do so hot when it comes to natural language processing?
- brettbender 16y agoAlso note that translation is a very different task than parsing, or part-of-speech tagging, for example. Summarization and translation are both open research topics in NLP from what I understand, and aren't really 'solved' in any language.
- syllogism 16y agoTranslation is a lot harder for language pairs that are less related. Most of the European languages are fairly close cousins, so translation between, say, English and French isn't that hard. That said, it's generally true that for most NLP tasks, we're doing much better on languages similar to English.
- _corbett 16y agotranslation is also a lot harder for data poor pairs of languages. machine translation relies on training on a parallel corpus (=same text, different languages), and gets better the bigger this is.