Neural MT Technology Looking for a Business Model
This is a guest post by Gábor Ugray, who drills into the possible rationale and potential logic of the recent DeepL NMT announcement. DeepL have provided very little detail on why, or even what they have done beyond providing some BLEU scores, so at this point, all of us can only speculate on the rationale and business outlook for DeepL with this limited information. Yes, they do seem to have slightly better scoring MT engines, but many of us know that these scores can vary from month to month, and can often be completely disingenuous and misleading . Even the great "Do No Evil" Google is not immune to piling up the bullshit with MT scores . This is the way of the MT warrior, it seems, especially if you have Google lineage. However, from my perspective the quality of the Linguee offering and track record sets this announcement apart. Here is somebody who apparently understands how to organize translation data with metadata on large scale. I imagine they already have some u...