Korean has a perfectly phonetic written language. It was invented by King Sejong and his scholars in 1444 specifically to be phonetic. Koreans probably use “Tyranasaurus” and “tiramisu” pronounced as-is, and the translator app translated the portmanteau phonetically to English.
To add to that, credit where credit is due, LLMs can often pick up on things like this. Machine translation has been LLM-based (or some primitive ancestors of LLM) for many years even before the AI boom. So AI probably helped a bit here.
That’s my wild guess. I wouldn’t call it a hypothesis, I’m just talking out of my ass.
There are other usages in computer linguistics. My master thesis was a neural parser. Other usages are in pattern recognition in medicine for example. But your point stands that often it makes things worse
Is there any way I can read your thesis? I’m casually curious, and also have no idea if college thesis are allowed to be shared online with rando people like me.
I had heard about the medicine thing actually. When the use case actually lines up with what it is, it makes sense as a tool. It’s that old adage though “When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Korean has a perfectly phonetic written language. It was invented by King Sejong and his scholars in 1444 specifically to be phonetic. Koreans probably use “Tyranasaurus” and “tiramisu” pronounced as-is, and the translator app translated the portmanteau phonetically to English.
That’s my hypothesis.
To add to that, credit where credit is due, LLMs can often pick up on things like this. Machine translation has been LLM-based (or some primitive ancestors of LLM) for many years even before the AI boom. So AI probably helped a bit here.
That’s my wild guess. I wouldn’t call it a hypothesis, I’m just talking out of my ass.
Translation might be the only thing they genuinely do better than older tools.
There are other usages in computer linguistics. My master thesis was a neural parser. Other usages are in pattern recognition in medicine for example. But your point stands that often it makes things worse
Is there any way I can read your thesis? I’m casually curious, and also have no idea if college thesis are allowed to be shared online with rando people like me.
Thats super cool! What sort of things did your neural parser do?
I had heard about the medicine thing actually. When the use case actually lines up with what it is, it makes sense as a tool. It’s that old adage though “When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”