Certain languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, and Russian, have what is referred to as grammatical gender. Nouns are either masculine or feminine. Words take different forms to denote gender, such as the Spanish word for child: el niño (m), la niña (f), lo...
MUM, which can transfer knowledge between languages and doesn’t need to be explicitly taught how to complete specific tasks, helped Google engineers to identify more than 800 COVID-19 name variations in over 50 languages. With only a few examples of official vaccine names, MUM was able to f...
problem, we artificially generate (augment) examples of parallel sentences. Training with the augmented examples improves the model’s robustness and resilience towards these data, allowing us to effectively translate a wide variety of customer domains. We augment existing segment pairs in the following...