Machine Translation Weekly 75: Outbound Translation
This week, I will comment on a paper by my good old friends from Charles
University in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, the University of
Sheffield, and the University of Tartu within the Bergamot
project. The main goal of the project is to develop a
high-quality machine translation that runs locally in an internet browser and
unlike services such as Google Translate or Microsoft Translator does not send
any (potentially sensitive) data to any server. This is a very cool project,
that totally matches my view on what technology deserves public support.
Lowering the technological dependency on big companies and strengthening user
privacy is certainly is totally wort of investing public money.
The paper that I am going to discuss is, however, on a slightly different
topic. Its