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> for language pairs that are not traditionally supported Maybe translate X to English, and then to Y?
by WalterBright 2y ago
> for language pairs that are not traditionally supported
Maybe translate X to English, and then to Y?
- omneity 2y agoMany languages (with a sizable speaker population) do not have machine translation to or from any other language. The technique makes sense though, but in the training data stage mostly. BART-style translation models already represent concepts in latent space regardless of the input-output language sidestepping English entirely so you have something like: `source lang —encoded into-> latent space —decoded into—> target lang` Works great to get translation support for arbitrary language combinations.
- djvdq 2y agoIt's a bad idea. It makes a lot of mistakes and might totally change the meaning of some sentences.