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Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2016
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ying Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Fei Huang, Chatham, NJ (US);

Kay Rottmann, San Francisco, CA (US);

Necip Fazil Ayan, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/28 (2006.01); G06F 17/20 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/2854 (2013.01); G06F 17/289 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for improving a machine translation system. The machine translation system may include one or more models for generating a translation. The system may generate multiple candidate translations, and may present the candidate translations to different groups of users, such as users of a social network. User engagement with the different candidate translations may be measured, and the system may determine which of the candidate translations was most favored by the users. For example, in the context of a social network, the number of times that the translation is liked or shared, or the number of comments associated with the translation, may be used to determine user engagement with the translation. The models of the machine translation system may be modified to favor the most-favored candidate translation. The translation system may repeat this process to continue to tune the models in a feedback loop.


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