Yiddish Translation

Linear Digressions

• Episode: Yiddish Translation
• Website: Linear Digressions
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• Duration: 00:12:15
• Published: 2015-08-03 05:06

Imagine a language that is mostly spoken rather than written, contains many words in other languages, and has relatively little written overlap with English. Now imagine writing a machine-learning-based translation system that can convert that language to English. That's the problem that confronted researchers when they set out to automatically translate between Yiddish and English; the tricks they used help us understand a lot about machine translation.