Honored to have my peer-reviewed paper Say It Right: AI Neural Machine Translation Empowers New Speakers To Revitalize Lemko cited in December 2023 by Alex Jones and Rolando Coto-Solano of Dartmouth College, as well as Guillermo González Campos of University of Costa Rica in their work TalaMT: Multilingual Machine Translation for Cabécar-Bribri-Spanish on Page 107 of the Proceedings of the 3rd Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop in Singapore.
Tag: AI
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New Experiment: Lab-Made Lemko?
I will be conducting an experiment this month to see if machines can be made to translate into Lemko better than Google Translate or humans.
Hypothesis
A machine can be configured to translate from English into the endangered Slavic language of Lemko and achieve quality scores higher than those of Google Translate’s Ukrainian service, but not yet higher than those of humans.
Predictions
- My English to Lemko rule-based machine translation (RBMT) engine will achieve a bilingual evaluation understudy (BLEU) score of 15 against a clean bilingual corpus.
- The above engine will achieve a BLEU score that is a third higher (e.g. 20) when coupled with an improvised dictionary-based machine translation (DBMT) created from Lemko-Polish unit-test assertion pairs.
- Google Translate’s English to Ukrainian translation service will achieve a BLEU score of 10 against the above corpus.
- I, a human, will achieve a higher BLEU score than all the above machines against the above corpus.
The experiments will be conducted over the next week or so, for subsequent publication.
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AI Neural Machine Translation in Multilingual Training Presented at I/ITSEC 2021
ORLANDO, Dec 2 (Orynycz.com) – It was an honor to present the breakthroughs in our paper Yes I Speak… AI Neural Machine Translation in Multilingual Training at the National Defense Industrial Association’s (NDIA) I/ITSEC 2021 conference, the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training event, with 13,000 in-person attendees from 47 countries representing governments, universities, corporations and militaries, including including United States Marine Corps Commandant General David H. Berger and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday.
Special thanks to Emerging Concepts and Innovative Technologies (ECIT) Session 7 Chair Brian Stensrud, Ph.D. and Session Deputy Neil Stagner of United States Marine Corps Systems Command for all the support that made it possible.
Breakthroughs
On low-end, air-gapped laptops in secure, field conditions, our translation engines achieved:
- Translation quality BLEU scores 59% better than those of professional linguists for the Russian to English language pair
- The world’s first usable Lemko to English machine translations
- 1,170% faster-than-human (real-time) Russian-to-English translation speeds
For details, check out the full paper.
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Watch AI Empower New Speakers of Endangered Languages Like Lemko
Engineer Petro Orynycz unveils AI technology that empowers endangered language (Lemko) new speakers to read their language immediately. Watch and follow along with this interactive seminar.
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Try It Yourself
1. Copy Lemko Text Below
130 років тому вродил ся Теофіль Курилло, передовый представник лемківской інтеліґенциіЗаписал обставины поневоліня в початковым періоді од 14. вересня/септембра 1914 р. до 22. серпня/авґуста 1915 р.130 років тому в Розділю під Ґорлицями вродил ся єден з передовых представників лемківской інтеліґенциі поч. ХХ ст. – Теофіль Курилло (1891-1945).Source: LEM.FM – 130 років тому вродил ся Теофіль Курилло, передовый представник лемківской інтеліґенциі
2. Paste Text Into Translator:
3. Press „Go!” Button Above.
Description
In a hands-on demo attended by over 50 worldwide, Natural Language Processing Engineer Petro Orynycz and Carpatho-Rusyn Society President Maryann Sivak unveil hybrid artificial intelligence technology that empowers new speakers of Lemko to read in the language immediately. Implications for endangered, low-resource language revitalization are discussed.
Promotional Flyer by the University of Pittsburgh See here for the official announcement on the website of the Nationality Rooms of the University of Pittsburgh.
Thank You Sponsors
University of Pittsburgh 
University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies 
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AI Empowers Speakers of Endangered Languages like Lemko Event Watchable On-Demand
Sharable Link:
https://www.orynycz.com/lemko/watch-ai-empower-new-speakersThe October 26, 2021 product launch and interactive demonstration was taped as can now be watched in its entirety here.
To watch and follow along, visit the event page.
Interactive Demo: AI Empowers Speakers of Endangered Languages like Lemko Sharable Link:
https://www.orynycz.com/lemko/watch-ai-empower-new-speakersYouTube and Facebook
You can also watch, like, comment, and share the presentation on Facebook or on YouTube.
