Can a grammar book replace training data for AI translation?
NYU Linguistics PhD student Jackson Petty (@jacksonpetty.org), CDS Assoc. Prof. Tal Linzen (@tallinzen.bsky.social), and CDS MS student Jaulie Goe tested this with synthetic languages.
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Most of the world’s 7,000 languages will never have enough written text online to train an AI translation system. However, linguists have…
