Found in Translation: Achieving Human Parity on Chinese to English News Translation

Machine translation has made rapid advances in recent years. In this talk we describe recent advances of Microsoft’s machine translation system using Neural Machine Translation that lead to achieving a new state-of-the-art, and achieving human parity when compared to professional human translations. We will discuss the technical contributions, results and how we defined and accurately measured human parity in translation.

Date:
Speakers:
Hany Hassan Awadalla and Christian Federmann
Affiliation:
Microsoft

Series: Microsoft Research Talks