Thursday, 5 March, 2026
Google uses ML to find out language translation work goof ups
By Basit Ansari
<p>Google scientists, for machine translation, compile a data set of over a thousand languages. There are very few papers to utilise as samples for ML in so-called low-resource languages. Authors comb the Internet for texts in low-resource languages and use ML techniques to identify them. 13 of the 38 languages had a quality rating of less than four on a scale of 0 to six. Humans labelled 20% of the translations as "nonsense/wrong language," deeming them unsuitable.<br />
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