Unlocking Zero-Resource Machine Translation to Support New Languages in Google Translate

3 · Google AI Research · May 11, 2022, 5:42 p.m.
Posted by Isaac Caswell and Ankur Bapna, Research Scientists, Google Translate Machine translation (MT) technology has made significant advances in recent years, as deep learning has been integrated with natural language processing (NLP). Performance on research benchmarks like WMT have soared, and translation services have improved in quality and expanded to include new languages. Nevertheless, while existing translation services cover languages spoken by the majority of people world wide, the...