- Elhuyar and Mondragon Lingua have presented the tool for machine translation through artificial intelligence. The creators have highlighted that, being the best translator in Basque, he does “quality” translations to improve the quality of the work.
MODELA www.modela.eus, the machine translation system between Basque and Spanish is now available. It has been developed from the most innovative artificial intelligence technique in recent times: Neural Machine Translation (NMT).
“So far we have found a way to apply this advanced technique in the translation systems among the main languages with texts in Basque,” said Itziar Cortes and Igor Ellakuria, responsible for the Translation Technologies of Elhuyar and MondragonLingua and MODELA.
In machine translation systems, the rich morphology and other characteristics of Euskera limited the quality of the results, while in systems based on neural networks, this limit has been exceeded and the linguistic technologies of Euskera have been equated to other languages.
Automated translators based on neural networks offer great fluidity compared to systems we already knew before. “In the case of the Basque Country, MODELA offers never seen quality translations. For the first time, we have been opened to the practical use of an automatic translator in Basque,” added MODELA leaders.