At the Forefront of Machine Learning
Computer scientist Derry Wijaya builds tools to translate "low-resource" languages and track how media perspectives shape public opinion
May 19, 2020
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By Jeremy Schwab
In an analog world, translating from one language to another was often done with the help of a dictionary. In today’s digital world, with access to incredibly fast computer algorithms and a vast amount of data, researchers are building a new landscape for language translation. And because computers are the ones doing the translating in this new reality, the landscape is one that a machine can understand. Derry Wijaya, a computer scientist at CAS and a pioneer in this new space, explains.