For the readers who have been wondering whether I have made any progress with my neural machine translation project, indeed, I have. I have successfully installed and run OpenNMT with the default settings as in the tutorial, though the resulting translations were fairly terrible. This was to be expected, since a whole lot of fine-tuning…
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Read MoreSorry for the long silence on the blog, but I have been working on resurrecting Translorial.com, the online version of the Translorial, the journal of the Northern California Translators Association (NCTA). There are some very interesting articles, going all the way back to 1978. So head on over to Translorial.com and check it out!
Read MoreYou can download the slides for my presentation here. (© All rights reserved, though I am happy to share a version with higher resolution or give specific permission for reuse of the slides upon request.) Abstract: From spam filters to stock trading bots, the applications of artificial intelligence are already omnipresent. This poses important questions…
Read MoreFor those of you who are waiting for updates on my neural machine translation project, unfortunately, you will have to wait till after ATA58 next week. Sadly, work and other issues interfered with any reportable progress on the project. Meanwhile, I am very busy preparing my presentation on “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Neural Nets.”…
Read MoreUpdated: December 2017 Before deciding on a toolkit, I needed to get an overview over the various open-source neural machine translation (MT) toolkits that are available at the time of writing (September 2017). In the following, I will summarize the features of the various toolkits from my point of view. Note that this summary does…
Read MoreI recently embarked on the ambitious project to set up my own neural machine translation engine. This post serves as the overview page over the posts, with posts being added over time. August 28th, 2017: Prologue – explaining the who and the why August 30th, 2017: Choice and setup of the hardware September 12th, 2017:…
Read MoreThis is the second installment of a series of blog posts, where I want to describe my attempts to set up my own neural machine translation engine. In the previous episode, I introduced myself and the project. For neural network applications, the choice of hardware is just as crucial as the software and algorithms, because…
Read MoreLately, when I introduce myself as a translator, or more specifically, as a patent translator, people invariably always ask me whether I’m worried that I’d be replaced by neural machine translation (NMT) in the next few years. Obviously, this being Silicon Valley with its ubiquitous self-driving cars, drones, and robot security guards, I can’t just…
Read MoreInspired by Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz.” Oh Lord, won’t you give me a text that makes sense? The deadline is looming, I must make amends. Worked hard all the week long, no help from my friends, So Lord, won’t you give me a text that makes sense? Oh Lord, won’t you get them to pay…
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