{"id":86039,"date":"2024-07-24T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/?p=86039"},"modified":"2024-07-24T21:11:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T21:11:23","slug":"meta-ai-saves-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2024\/07\/24\/meta-ai-saves-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"No Language Left Behind: How Meta AI\u2019s System Could Safeguard Endangered Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GPI-Curation-Corner-Emblem.png\" alt=\"GPI Curation Corner Emblem\" width=\"77\" height=\"108\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-86048\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0.5em 0 0.5em 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Meta-AI-Saves-Languages-1.jpg\" alt=\"Meta AI Saves Languages\" width=\"368\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Meta-AI-Saves-Languages-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Meta-AI-Saves-Languages-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/>Meta\u2019s No Language Left Behind Project (<a href=\"https:\/\/ai.meta.com\/research\/no-language-left-behind\/\">NLLB-200<\/a>) \u00a0will make Facebook and Instagram posts available in 200 low-resource languages, including Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Bosnian, Kamba, Lao, and other languages spoken mostly in Asia, Africa, and Europe. The NLLB-200 project will also make it possible for the translation of Wikipedia articles into the featured languages, as a result of Meta\u2019s partnership with Wikipedia the open knowledge platform.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to foster better connections among people through the power of a shared and mutually spoken language. Meta AI\u2019s researchers described their method to boost translations in low-resource and endangered languages.<\/p>\n<p>This involves crowd-sourcing data from platforms like local language Wikipedia with less than 1 million articles and creating a multilingual dataset. The NNLB-200 AI uses a computational model based on a \u201cSparse Mixture-of-Experts\u201d architecture trained on data obtained with new mining techniques tailored for low-resource languages.<\/p>\n<p>This development would allow for the inclusion of lesser-spoken languages often neglected when training large language models.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about how <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.meta.com\/blog\/nllb-200-high-quality-machine-translation\/\">Meta AI\u2019s NNLB-200 model<\/a> could safeguard endangered languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta\u2019s No Language Left Behind Project (NLLB-200) \u00a0will make Facebook and Instagram posts available in 200 low-resource languages, including Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Bosnian, Kamba, Lao, and other languages spoken mostly in Asia, Africa, and Europe. The NLLB-200 project will also make it possible for the translation of Wikipedia articles into the featured languages, as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1847],"tags":[732,730,581,456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86056,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86039\/revisions\/86056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}