Localization/Machine Translation

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of software to translate text or speech from one language to another.^[1]

Readings

Wikipedia: Machine translation

Learning Task

(Install and Test Machine Translation) Install the Open Source Software Marian NMT^[2] and establish a translation process on you machine.
(Tanslation and Privacy) Analyse free transtlation tools like DeepL, Google Translate, ... and analyze the domains in which translation is required and privacy is important.
(News and Media Analysis) Explain the role of translation of machine translation for news and media analysis on the web and use that as input for big data analysis.

Concepts

Post-editing

Other Tools

MarianNMT Neural Machine Translation

References

↑ Wikipedia: Machine translation
↑ Young Jin Kim, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Hany Hassan, Alham Fikri Fikri Aji, Kenneth Heafield, Roman Grundkiewicz, and Nikolay Bogoychev. 2019. From Research to Production and Back: Ludicrously Fast Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation, Hong Kong. Association for Computational Linguistics

[1] Wikipedia: Machine translation

[2] Young Jin Kim, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Hany Hassan, Alham Fikri Fikri Aji, Kenneth Heafield, Roman Grundkiewicz, and Nikolay Bogoychev. 2019. From Research to Production and Back: Ludicrously Fast Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation, Hong Kong. Association for Computational Linguistics

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