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Lack of support for Chinese or French is disappointing.
by dbcooper 4y ago
Lack of support for Chinese or French is disappointing.
- Asraelite 4y agoIt's a very odd set of languages that they have. French should have orders of magnitude more resources available for developing a translation engine than e.g. Bulgarian would, so why do the more obscure language first? Maybe they just happened to be able to get volunteers/partners who know those languages.
- d2wa 4y agoPossibly it has to do with who provided funding, or selection by a certain type of language families.
- lolinder 4y agoCan't be language families—they've got Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, so French would be an obvious choice to include. The inclusion of Estonian is particularly odd. It's a very small language (1.1m native) and is the only non-Indo-European language in production or development.
- davidzweig 4y agoOne of the main developers at Edinburgh is Bulgarian. :)
- anticensor 4y agoBecause French is a polysynthetic language. Agglutinative and polysynthetic languages have difficulty with contemporary language models.
- Asraelite 4y agoEr, I don't think that's it. French is pretty far from being polysynthetic and is usually classified as analytic. Why do you say it's polysynthetic? Because of the few personal pronoun clitics it has? I'd imagine the 14 grammatical cases of Estonian would be harder to handle than French grammar, and yet they have Estonian.
- EastSmith 4y agoLooks like a french model was added 17 days ago https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/tree/main/models/prod https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/tree/...