Linear Digressions
Linear Digressions
Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone
Yiddish Translation
12 minutes Posted Aug 2, 2015 at 8:06 pm.
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Imagine a language that is mostly spoken rather than written, contains many words in other languages, and has relatively little written overlap with English. Now imagine writing a machine-learning-based translation system that can convert that language to English. That's the problem that confronted researchers when they set out to automatically translate between Yiddish and English; the tricks they used help us understand a lot about machine translation.