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Enabling Radically Inclusive Machine Translation (part 3)

November 29, 2018 || David Kamholz

Categories: Machine Translation, PanLex Database

Tags: Android, Egyptian Arabic, Google Translate, Javanese, machine translation, Meadow Mari, Microsoft Windows, multilingual dictionaries, under-served languages, Uyghur, Western Punjabi, Wu Chinese

In the first two posts in this series, we elaborated our belief that all people should be able to use their native language to exercise human rights and have access to opportunity. We showed that machine translation technology currently falls far short of this goal, but that there are realistic ways to make progress. In […]

Enabling Radically Inclusive Machine Translation (part 2)

October 25, 2018 || David Kamholz

Categories: Machine Translation, PanLex Database

Tags: Apertium, Gamayun, Google Translate, MATERIAL, Translators Without Borders, under-served languages

In the first post in this series, we discussed the importance of bringing machine translation to all of the world’s languages and some of the economic and technical challenges in doing so. In this post, we will explore in more detail the current status of technological support for machine translation in under-served languages. Along the […]