Have you ever wondered what the inside of a machine translation system looks like? Or considered what it would be like to crack open a system and examine its internal components? We’ve all dreamed of shrinking down to a few millimeters and exploring the insides of household appliances – or, better yet, the internal systems of the human body. But what would we find if we gazed down at the inner depths of machine translation?
Students at the University of Zurich’s Institute of Computational Linguistics recently obtained this opportunity in an introductory course on machine translation and parallel corpora. Instructors at the institute wanted to give their students a deeper understanding of the inner life of SMT systems by letting them “peek under the hood” of a real MT platform and tinker with the internal components.
The machine translation platform chosen to examine was LetsMT, provided by Tilde, a European language technology company. Since its launch in 2012, LetsMT has been used to build numerous customized MT systems. These include MT systems deployed by European governments as well as MT solutions integrated into popular mobile apps and language software.
LetsMT had already been employed as a classroom aid at the University of Copenhagen, where the Centre for Language Technology uses LetsMT as a ...
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