Sakha Tyla: How to teach a machine to understand Sakha
How do you save a language that has not been spoken for a whole generation? It’s essential to use the language in chat rooms, in creating movies, blogs, and rap, and to generally use it more often on the Internet. Alexey Ivanov is an enthusiast who understood this and approached Yandex with the idea of making an online translator from the Sakha language. The task that engineers solved many times with other languages turned out to be more difficult and interesting. In addition to technology, this project needed a protagonist.
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Sakha Tyla: How to teach a machine to understand Sakha
- Overview
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Status
Released
Release Date
Dec 20, 2021
Runtime
0h 31m
Genres
Documentary
Original Title
Саха Тыла. Как научить машину понимать якутский
Director
Maksim Tomash
Description
How do you save a language that has not been spoken for a whole generation? It’s essential to use the language in chat rooms, in creating movies, blogs, and rap, and to generally use it more often on the Internet. Alexey Ivanov is an enthusiast who understood this and approached Yandex with the idea of making an online translator from the Sakha language. The task that engineers solved many times with other languages turned out to be more difficult and interesting. In addition to technology, this project needed a protagonist.
