Longyue Wang, a Research Scientist at Tencent AI Lab, discusses the advancements in Chinese-to-English machine translation and the challenges in translating Chinese to non-English languages. He explores the impact of large language models (LLMs) on machine translation, including their superiority in document-level translation. Longyue also highlights various promising research directions for LLMs in machine translation, such as stylized MT, interactive MT, and translation memory-based MT. Additionally, he sheds light on Chinese researchers' efforts to build Chinese-centric MT engines and reduce reliance on English as a pivot language.
