Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

Re:Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part ... by simlevesque on Thursday June 02, 2022 @01:55PM (#31598286)

I wonder why French is absent.

Meanwhile they have Persian which is not even in the EU.

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Re:Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part ... by andrenatal1 on Friday June 03, 2022 @06:08AM (#31606390)

French is being trained by the consortium and is part of the scope of the grant, so we should have it at some point in June and we'll ship and update as soon we have it.

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Re:Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part ... by geraltofrivia on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:37PM (#31600820)

I wouldn't comment on the absence of French vis-a-vis other languages. It's just slightly surprising because English <-> French is honestly a very widely studied translation sub-task, with an enormous amount of parallel corpora available for training these models.

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Re:Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part ... by simlevesque on Thursday June 02, 2022 @06:18PM (#31601244)

Well, there's this and the fact that it is the second most popular language in the european union, which sponsor the project.

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Re:Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part ... by cassepipe on Thursday June 02, 2022 @02:02PM (#31598373)

Should the EU languages get preferential treatment ?

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Re:Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part ... by Mizza on Thursday June 02, 2022 @02:13PM (#31598518)

"This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825303 ."

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