Can AI Translate Languages the Internet Has Barely Learned?
The gap is similarly stark in parallel data, which is especially valuable for machine translation. The same survey found about 280 million English–French sentence pairs in the OPUS collection, compared with 700,000 for English–Myanmar and 35,000 for English–Fon, a language spoken by millions in West Africa. On that measure, the English–French resource was about 400…
The gap is similarly stark in parallel data. It is especially valuable for machine translation. The same survey found concerning 280 million English–French sentence pairs in the OPUS collection, compared with 700,000 for English–Myanmar and 35,000 for English–Fon, a language spoken by millions in West Africa. On that measure, the English–French resource was about 400 times larger than English–Myanmar and 8,000 times larger than English–Fon.
