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They're similar at the atomic level, so to speak, but not very similar at the levels relevant for translation. The characters used to express languages are cer
by _emacsomancer_ 7y ago
They're similar at the atomic level, so to speak, but not very similar at the levels relevant for translation.
The characters used to express languages are certainly a side-issue, but I don't understand why you would bring that into a discussion of syntactic structure.
For compositional semantics, understanding the syntactic structures involved is crucial. Otherwise you end up with gibberish (i.e. what I find so often with Google Translate).
- Veedrac 7y agoMy claim isn't that it's easy to solve NLP; of course a resource-constrained system like Google Translate that inderects many language pairs through English is going to have glaring issues. My claim is that the challenges generalize between languages. If you can handle English, you can handle any other language, and while the easy parts might at least look different at the surface, the hard parts are all the same.