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I would tend to guess that the reverse of your assumption about Google Translate is true. The translations from an uncommon language available for training will
by dhosek 3y ago
I would tend to guess that the reverse of your assumption about Google Translate is true. The translations from an uncommon language available for training will, by far, outnumber the translations to that language.
- lazyasciiart 3y agoBut the translations from an uncommon language to a different uncommon language will still be far more rare.
- dhosek 3y agoJust guessing, but I imagine that Google Translate probably will, assuming, say, we represent Zapotec to English as f and English to Kannada as g use f ∘ g to infer the translation of Zapotec to Kannada. And saying that, I’m guessing that if the corpus of f⁻¹ is too small, it can probably attempt to infer the gaps from f. But these inferred mappings are probably of lower quality than explicit ones returning us to the original issue. And man, I really wish someone who actually knew would weigh in on this.