Reader small image

You're reading from  Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow - Second Edition

Product typeBook
Published inJul 2022
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781838641351
Edition2nd Edition
Languages
Right arrow
Author (1)
Thushan Ganegedara
Thushan Ganegedara
author image
Thushan Ganegedara

Thushan is a seasoned ML practitioner with 4+ years of experience in the industry. Currently he is a senior machine learning engineer at Canva; an Australian startup that founded the online visual design software, Canva, serving millions of customers. His efforts are particularly concentrated in the search and recommendations group working on both visual and textual content. Prior to Canva, Thushan was a senior data scientist at QBE Insurance; an Australian Insurance company. Thushan was developing ML solutions for use-cases related to insurance claims. He also led efforts in developing a Speech2Text pipeline there. He obtained his PhD specializing in machine learning from the University of Sydney in 2018.
Read more about Thushan Ganegedara

Right arrow

Machine translation

Humans often communicate with each other by means of a language, compared to other communication methods (for example, gesturing). Currently, more than 6,000 languages are spoken worldwide. Furthermore, learning a language to a level where it is easily understandable to a native speaker of that language is a difficult task to master. However, communication is essential for sharing knowledge, socializing, and expanding your network. Therefore, language acts as a barrier to communicating with people in different parts of the world. This is where Machine Translation (MT) comes in. MT systems allow the user to input a sentence in their own tongue (known as the source language) and output a sentence in a desired target language.

The problem with MT can be formulated as follows. Say we are given a sentence (or a sequence of words) Ws belonging to a source language S, defined by the following:

Here, .

The source language would be translated to a sentence...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Natural Language Processing with TensorFlow - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838641351

Author (1)

author image
Thushan Ganegedara

Thushan is a seasoned ML practitioner with 4+ years of experience in the industry. Currently he is a senior machine learning engineer at Canva; an Australian startup that founded the online visual design software, Canva, serving millions of customers. His efforts are particularly concentrated in the search and recommendations group working on both visual and textual content. Prior to Canva, Thushan was a senior data scientist at QBE Insurance; an Australian Insurance company. Thushan was developing ML solutions for use-cases related to insurance claims. He also led efforts in developing a Speech2Text pipeline there. He obtained his PhD specializing in machine learning from the University of Sydney in 2018.
Read more about Thushan Ganegedara