@fchollet I find modern Chinese culture to be surprisingly similar to American culture.
English <-> Mandarin translation from Google is surprisingly decent, but English <-> Japanese is just horrible. I wonder why
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@yoavgo@fchollet cos BLEU says nothing e.g. https://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W15/W15-5009.pdf … and we don't know how to evaluate#machinetranslation automatically yet
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@fchollet Japanese is kind of like a Stack language.You need to keep the subject/object parts in memory and also inference them when missing -
@fchollet also the default POV in English is that of an omniscient observer while in Japanese its of someone inside the situation.
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@fchollet Even funnier, EN->JA->KR works much better than EN->KR directly. CN more similar to EN than JA and easier b/c one writing systemThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@fchollet possibly because English and Chinese family languages are SVO and Japanese is SOV. (Mandarin is spoken, Chinese written.)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@haldaume3@fchollet Other factors: English and Mandarin share more typological similarities (mostly isolating, SVO) than English & Japanese - Show replies
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