Yonhapnews Agency - Mobile

By Kim Han-joo SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Yonhap) -- Fierce competition is expected among technology companies from both home and abroad in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) language translations that industry officials say will soon reach human-level accuracy. Google Inc. is the leading provider of an AI-based translation platform by becoming the first to introduce its Neural Machine Translation (NMT) system last year that significantly improves translation quality and reduces errors. The new system is based on a deep learning framework that learns from millions of examples from over 100 different languages, the U.S. tech giant said. Unlike previous machine translation that was adopted 10 years ago, the new system considers an entire sentence as one unit. Previous systems independently translated words and phrases within a sentence.