Alexa AI's machine translation controls for formality, ranks first place

Episode 193 August 16, 2022 00:03:24
Alexa AI's machine translation controls for formality, ranks first place
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Alexa AI's machine translation controls for formality, ranks first place

Aug 16 2022 | 00:03:24

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Eddie Arrieta

Show Notes

Amazon’s Alexa AI team was recently ranked in first place on a shared task at the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), which focused on developing a machine translation (MT) system that could produce output with different levels of formality in the target language.

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