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Multilingual Machines The Art of Statistical Translation
Multilingual Machines Scientific American has posted an interesting two page feature on Multilingual Machines. First looking at translation tools based on expert systems, the article points out the many flaws -- notably the ambiguity problems. To the rescue come statistical algorithms; they learn what the most common word combinations without experts, and drastically improve the quality of the translation. A combination of the learning and the expert rules would also be a great idea, as both have their respective ``issues''... | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Thursday 25 July, 13:56 Reply