[46] Yulia Tsvetkov - Linguistic Knowledge in Data-Driven NLP
The Thesis Review
The Importance of Linguistics in Machine Translation
As a PhD student, where did you obtain the grounding? Was like part of your, was a lot of your time like actually learning about the series? Self-learned? Yeah. And I did not start from linguistics. The concrete task was we wanted to work on African languages,. There is almost no resources for soy, very any resources. But we wanted to build a machine translation. Phrase based translation systems don't work. So I would go actually to understand what the phenomenon of lexical borrowing is. And then I would go to linguistic theories that I don't explain and the simulate the process of linguistic borrowing. Then I would go back to our field and try to operational
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