translation

Definition

Mapping a sentence in one language onto a sentence in another — the canonical sequence-to-sequence problem, and historically the proving ground where attention and then the transformer first demonstrated their value. Large parallel corpora made it an unusually well-resourced task. General-purpose language models now compete with dedicated systems on high-resource pairs, though the picture is far less settled for low-resource languages and specialized domains.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Last Translation Benchmark — Measuring Translation with Breaking Examples and Verification RulesLast Translation Benchmark
• Build Your Own BPE Tokenizer — Learning Merge Rules, and Getting Punished by JapaneseNeural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
• Tokenizers from Scratch — The Unit an LLM Cuts the World IntoNeural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units