NICT・Toyota:translation of automobile legal statements: High precision with neural technology

NICT・Toyota:translation of automobile legal statements: High precision with neural technology

  1. Toyota cooperates with translation bank, provides original data of translation
  2. Translated automobile regulations. 24% increase in practicality with neural English to Japanese translation system
  3. Target: The entire automotive industry. The ripple effect is huge (including parts manufacturers)

NICT: Automatic Translation Engine

Based on English-Japanese-Chinese-Japanese translation data on automobile regulations provided by Toyota,

The practicality has been improved by adapting the English-Japanese / chinese-Japanese neural network translation engine.

Toyota: Evaluating engine practicability

Toyota evaluated the degree of practical use after adaptation for automobile regulations.

Adaptation: comparison before and after

English-Japanese translation: 24% of automatic translation engines improve their practicality,

Chinese-to-Japanese translation: 11% of automatic translation engines improve practicality,

In response to this, Toyota has decided to continue examining the improvement of practicality.

https://www.nict.go.jp/press/2019/04/23-1.html