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AI Translator | Microsoft gets offline AI-powered translations
By Xiao Lulu | April 24, 2018, 13:35 GMT+8
Microsoft has released an offline artificial intelligence-powered translation on April 18, declaring that it is the first machine translation system that can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person.
The updated Microsoft language packs are now available for Arabic, Chinese-Simplified, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai, with others to follow.
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Researchers in Microsoft's Asia and U.S. labs said that this system have achieved human parity on a commonly used test set of news stories, which includes about 2,000 sentences from a sample of online newspapers that have been professionally translated.
To verify that Microsoft’s machine translation was as good as a person’s translation, the company hired a group of outside bilingual language consultants to compare Microsoft’s results against manually produced human translations.
What’s interesting about this AI Translator is that it is able to do this on virtually any modern phone and that there is no need for a custom AI chip in them regardless of whether the device is connected to the cloud or offline.
Microsoft used ideas like deliberation networks to make translations more effective.
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Huang Xuedong, a techiest in charge of Microsoft’s speech, natural language and machine translation efforts, called it a major milestone in one of the most challenging natural language processing tasks.
“Hitting human parity in a machine translation task is a dream that all of us have had,” Huang said. “We just didn’t realize we’d be able to hit it so soon.”
The Market of Mobile Translation
Machine translation is a problem researchers have worked on for decades.
Benefits from the development of AI technology such as natural language and computer vision, the accuracy and speed of machine translation have been greatly improved. The market of mobile translation has accordingly entered a new era.
From 2015 to 2018, the users of mobile translator shown an markedly upward trend in amount.
The Amount and Growth Rate of
Users of Mobile Translator
The users of mobile translator shown an markedly upward trend in amount.
Source from: Sootoo institute
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The number of users in 2016 reached 84 millions with a year-on-year growth rate of 78.7%. While in 2017, users of mobile translator staidly increased by 84.5% and peak at 155 million.
The demand for mobile translators increase consistently along with the development of globalization.
According to the data of domestic mobile translation market in Q1 in 2018 and previous user research, analysts at the Sootoo Research Institute forecasted that in 2018, the users of mobile translation will reach 277 million.
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Tie-Yan Liu, principal research manager with Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing said no one knows whether machine translation systems will ever get good enough to translate any text in any language pair with the accuracy and lyricism of a human translator.
But, he said, these recent breakthroughs allow the teams to move on to the next big steps toward that goal and other big AI achievements, such as reaching human parity in speech-to-speech translation.
“What we can predict is that definitely we will do better and better,” Liu said.
The pursuit of removing language barriers to help people communicate better is fantastic.
——Huang Xuedong
Source:
The Microsoft Blog, Engadget, Inverse.com
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