MT Specialist

Professional and passionate machine translation (MT) expert. Happy to answer questions around #mxl8 and related technologies. Very seriously.

[Welocalize @welocalize]

#Facebook ditches Bing, 800M users now see its own AI text translations | https://t.co/966BRn46qf #MT #translation #machinetranslation

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

@LREC2016 Breaking, #LREC18 taking place in Malaga, Spain! #LREC16

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

Now trending: training MT models without tokenizing or truecasing

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

@LukeSpear #mt is overloaded indeed; #mxl8 is a great idea!

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

There's nothing better for domain-specific MT than @GoogleTransIate.

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

@LukeSpear #xl8 is a great hashtag for translation, but what shall we do with machine translation?

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

@googleresearch Can I use word2vec to train a rule-based machine translation system? I'm abandoning @MosesSMT cause I always have to tune it

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

The best MT systems are (if at all) tuned on out-of-domain data.

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

@philippkoehn would you like to republish your book stating that Moses used with no LM should select only the least likely translations?

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

Tuning is for cowards. #mt

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

I often use Latin as a pivot to translate between Romance languages.

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

@cdec Do you support LM-only translation engines?

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

RT @nytimes BREAKING: @mt_specialist awarded Nobel Prize for discovering major bug in Moses decoder! http://t.co/9V6fVO4ibR

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

@CommonCrawl I don't always use training data, but when I do it, I use very little. #mt

[Apache Joshua @ApacheJoshua]

@milesosborne @mt_specialist @MosesSMT You are missing some (delicious) context, have a read: http://t.co/MStOYkG67S

[Moses SMT & Hieu Hoang @MosesSMT]

@milesosborne @mt_specialist @joshuadecoder zero weights. And just use the pt to define the search space but don't use it as a feature

[MT Specialist @mt_specialist]

Whenever I hire a linguist, our system performance improves. #mt #xl8 #l10n

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@MosesSMT @joshuadecoder I challenge you to disable the TM and perform LM only translations and see what kind of BLEU scores you get. #xl8