How to Speak a Language without Knowing It
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- ACL 2014
- PDF link: https://aclanthology.info/papers/P14-2046/p14-2046
- MT, this paper develops a system that lets people overcome language barriers by letting them
speak a language they do not know. That system accepts text entered by a user,
translates the text, then converts the translation into a phonetic spelling in the user’s
own orthography. - For example: input:"interesting"-->output:"因吹斯听"
I find that this paper is more likely to be about machine transliteration instead of machine translation. In fact I was skimming through the TACL18 when I find the paper Leveraging Orthographic Similarity for Multilingual Neural Transliteration.
According to the definition, a translation tells you the meaning of words in another language; a transliteration doesn't tell you the meaning of the words, but it helps you pronounce them (see https://www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/now-what-translation-vs-transliteration/). It's the first time that I came to know this fascinating topic :P