{"id":6205,"date":"2018-03-14T06:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T13:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/translation\/?p=6205"},"modified":"2018-03-14T06:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T13:11:06","slug":"human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/","title":{"rendered":"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/03\/Tranaslator-Graphic-1200x630.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/03\/Tranaslator-Graphic-1200x630-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\nMicrosoft <\/span><span>announced <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/machine-translation-news-test-set-human-parity?wt.mc_id=74788-translator\"><span>today<\/span><\/a><span> that its researchers have <\/span><span>developed a<\/span><span>n<\/span><span> AI machine translation <\/span><span>system<\/span><span> that<\/span><span> can translate with the same accuracy as a human from Chinese to English.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To validate th<\/span><span>e results, t<\/span><span>he researche<\/span><span>rs used a<\/span><span>n industry standard <\/span><span>test set of news stories<\/span><span> (<\/span><span>newstest2017<\/span><span>)<\/span> <span>to <\/span><span>compare <\/span><span>human and machine translation<\/span> <span>results<\/span><span>.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To <\/span><span>further <\/span><span>ensure accuracy of the <\/span><span>evaluation<\/span><span>, the team <\/span><span>also <\/span><span>hired bilingual human evaluators who compared the results against a different set of human-produced translations.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>R<\/span><span>ead more about this t<\/span><span>ranslation breakthrough<\/span><span> on <\/span><span>the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/machine-translation-news-test-set-human-parity?wt.mc_id=74788-translator\"><span>Microsoft Research blog<\/span><\/a><span>,\u00a0<\/span><span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW136350802\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW136350802\">and test (a portion) of this new system at <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.ai\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW136350802\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW136350802\">translate.ai<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW136350802\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW136350802\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW136350802\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For more in-depth <\/span><span>information about <\/span><span>the<\/span> <span>neural machine<\/span> <span>translation<\/span><span> technologies developed for this breakthrough<\/span><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/achieving-human-parity-on-automatic-chinese-to-english-news-translation\/\"><span>read the newly published research <\/span><span>paper<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft announced today that its researchers have developed an AI machine translation system that can translate with the same accuracy as a human from Chinese to English.\u00a0 To validate the results, the researchers used an industry standard test set of news stories (newstest2017) to compare human and machine translation results.\u00a0 To further ensure accuracy of the evaluation, the team also<span class=\"read-more-ellipsis\">&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n <p class=\"c-paragraph-3 read-more-link\"><a class=\"c-call-to-action c-glyph f-lightweight\" href=\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/\">CONTINUE READING <span class=\"x-screen-reader\">\"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<title>Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations - Microsoft Translator Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations - Microsoft Translator Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Microsoft announced today that its researchers have developed an AI machine translation system that can translate with the same accuracy as a human from Chinese to English.\u00a0 To validate the results, the researchers used an industry standard test set of news stories (newstest2017) to compare human and machine translation results.\u00a0 To further ensure accuracy of the evaluation, the team also....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Microsoft Translator Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/microsofttranslator\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/03\/Tranaslator-Graphic-1200x630-1024x538.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Microsoft Translator\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@mstranslator\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@mstranslator\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Microsoft Translator\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Microsoft Translator\",\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0a163e1bf796b3bb651085032849cf37\"},\"headline\":\"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/\"},\"wordCount\":137,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/\",\"url\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/\",\"name\":\"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations - Microsoft Translator Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Microsoft Translator Blog\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Microsoft Corporation\",\"url\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/05\/microsoft_logo_element-300x300-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/05\/microsoft_logo_element-300x300-1.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":300,\"caption\":\"Microsoft Corporation\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLD7HFcN7LXRd4kd2XgZjIbQ8TwTC32Zc9\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/microsofttranslator\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mstranslator\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0a163e1bf796b3bb651085032849cf37\",\"name\":\"Microsoft Translator\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/978e1fd70e1a6177e5cb285daa5ad026?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/978e1fd70e1a6177e5cb285daa5ad026?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Microsoft Translator\"},\"url\":\"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/author\/mtteam\/\"}]}<\/script>","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations - Microsoft Translator Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations - Microsoft Translator Blog","og_description":"Microsoft announced today that its researchers have developed an AI machine translation system that can translate with the same accuracy as a human from Chinese to English.\u00a0 To validate the results, the researchers used an industry standard test set of news stories (newstest2017) to compare human and machine translation results.\u00a0 To further ensure accuracy of the evaluation, the team also....","og_url":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/","og_site_name":"Microsoft Translator Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/microsofttranslator","article_published_time":"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/03\/Tranaslator-Graphic-1200x630-1024x538.jpg"}],"author":"Microsoft Translator","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@mstranslator","twitter_site":"@mstranslator","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Microsoft Translator","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/"},"author":{"name":"Microsoft Translator","@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0a163e1bf796b3bb651085032849cf37"},"headline":"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations","datePublished":"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00","dateModified":"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/"},"wordCount":137,"publisher":{"@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/","url":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/","name":"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations - Microsoft Translator Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00","dateModified":"2018-03-14T13:11:06+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2018\/03\/14\/human-parity-for-chinese-to-english-translations\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Neural Machine Translation reaches historic milestone: human parity for Chinese to English translations"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#website","url":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/","name":"Microsoft Translator Blog","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#organization","name":"Microsoft Corporation","url":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/05\/microsoft_logo_element-300x300-1.png","contentUrl":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2021\/05\/microsoft_logo_element-300x300-1.png","width":300,"height":300,"caption":"Microsoft Corporation"},"image":{"@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLD7HFcN7LXRd4kd2XgZjIbQ8TwTC32Zc9","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/microsofttranslator","https:\/\/twitter.com\/mstranslator"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0a163e1bf796b3bb651085032849cf37","name":"Microsoft Translator","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/978e1fd70e1a6177e5cb285daa5ad026?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/978e1fd70e1a6177e5cb285daa5ad026?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Microsoft Translator"},"url":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/author\/mtteam\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}