This is the program capable of translating indigenous Mexican languages ​​like the Google translator

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This is the program capable of translating indigenous Mexican languages ​​like the Google translator

This is the program capable of translating indigenous Mexican languages ​​like the Google translator

Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) develop a program that will automatically translate indigenous languages ​​such as Huichol... 12.31.2021, Sputnik Mundo

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The project is developed by Iván Vladimir Meza, a researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Systems Research (IIMAS) at UNAM and an expert in artificial intelligence. The specialist initiated the project of a translator of indigenous languages ​​in 2014, thanks to the fact that one of his students had a relationship with the Wixárika community (known as Huicholes) and wanted to support it. To process all the information, Meza Ruiz will use the computational model of neural networks, a process that, as its name indicates, resembles the way in which the brain processes a language.Basically what this model does is to do the translation based on examples and comparison of sentences, also relying on common mathematical concepts such as matrix operations and vector calculus."Fortunately we have several algorithms that work fine, but since current so-called deep models have numerous modules and values ​​for p To process, specialized computer equipment is needed," explained Meza Ruiz in an interview for the General Directorate of Social Communication of the UNAM. Unfortunately, one of the biggest challenges of the project is the little written information that is available on the 68 indigenous languages recognized in Mexico (with 364 variants), since even many survive only orally." For native languages, the largest corpus are close to 10,000 examples, compared to the millions of commercial systems. We are very far from having an experience similar to what we have when using a normal translator, because we have very little data. That is part of our battle right now: to get more data and increase our examples," explained Delfino Zacarias, a master's student who speaks Ayuuk (Mixe), who collaborates with an interpretation method. Volunteers such as César Cruz, undergraduate student at IIMAS, who documents an intelligent system for mazahua (J natío) and which he developed in the MazhuApp app, available in the Play Store. Other universities such as Querétaro and Yucatán have developed software in collaboration with Microsoft to translate Otomi and Mayan in a program called Heritage.

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Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are developing a program that will automatically translate indigenous languages ​​such as Huichol, Nahuatl, Mexicanero and Yoem Noli and Mazahua, as well as translators such as Google.