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Multilingual Machines The Art of Statistical Translation | |
Multilingual Machines
Scientific American has posted an interesting two page feature on Multilingual Machines. First looking at translation tools based on expert systems, the article points out the many flaws -- notably the ambiguity problems. To the rescue come statistical algorithms; they learn what the most common word combinations without experts, and drastically improve the quality of the translation. A combination of the learning and the expert rules would also be a great idea, as both have their respective ``issues''... |
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