Multilingual Translation System

Google’s new multilingual Neural Machine Translation System can translate between language pairs even though it has never been taught to do so

November 25, 2016

Machine translation breakthrough implemented for 103 languages Google researchers have announced they have implemented a neural machine translation system in Google Translate that improves translation quality and enables “Zero-Shot Translation” — translation between language pairs never seen explicitly by the system. For example, in the animation above, the system was trained to translate bidirectionally between English and Japanese and between English and Korean. … more…