Computer Science · Oct / Nov 2017 · Paper 2 HL · Question 9
Adapt for 2027Machine translation is a natural language processing application of machine learning (A4.1.1), but the cognitive versus probabilistic framing is from the old syllabus and needs rewording.
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9. Google Translate is an algorithm whose function is to translate text from one language to another. One of the resources that it uses is the body of documents produced by the United Nations which are routinely translated by humans into various languages. Discuss the reasons why Google Translate takes a probabilistic approach in preference to a cognitive rule-based approach. [5]
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