Issue #117 – Subword Segmentation and a Single Bridge Language Affect Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation

11 Feb21 Issue #117 – Subword Segmentation and a Single Bridge Language Affect Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation Author: Dr. Jingyi Han, Machine Translation Scientist @ Iconic Introduction Nowadays, zero-shot machine translation is receiving more and more attention due to the expensive cost of building new engines for different language directions. The underlying principle of this strategy is to build a single model that can learn to translate between different language pairs without involving direct training for such combinations. Following the […]

Issue #37 – Zero-shot Neural MT as Domain Adaptation

16 May19 Issue #37 – Zero-shot Neural MT as Domain Adaptation Author: Dr. Patrik Lambert, Machine Translation Scientist @ Iconic Zero-shot machine translation – a topic we first covered in Issue #6 – is the idea that you can have a single MT engine that can translate between multiple languages. Such multilingual Neural MT systems can be built by simply concatenating parallel sentence pairs in several language directions and only adding a token in the source side indicating to which […]