Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpora Only [pdf]

Re:Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpor... by nl on Thursday November 02, 2017 @11:52PM (#15616565)

This is pretty interesting, and something I've played around with too (although not to the extent they have - I was playing with aligning word embedding and using them for cross lingual tasks).

Google released a paper[1] doing zero-shot translation between unseen pairs. That relied on a shared representation which they called "interlingua", and that seems quite similar to this

[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translatio...

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Re:Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpor... by unhammer on Friday November 03, 2017 @04:01AM (#15617411)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingual_machine_translati... is an old concept, used to be seen as The Right Way (as opposed to the pragmatic way) of doing MT back in the day, before the success of (very pragmatic, low-knowledge) statistical approaches.

I find it interesting that in Google's system, they didn't set out to build an interlingua, but instead built a system that happened to end up with something like one …

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