Request: Can you help me generate an idea on how to develop programs that help automatically translate texts from English to Spanish?

Francisco Martínez
6 min readOct 10, 2024

ChatGPT Response:

Sure! Developing a program that automatically translates texts from English to Spanish effectively involves using several techniques and tools within the field of artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP). Here’s an idea of how to structure the development of such a program:

1. Choosing the Technological Base

  • Neural Machine Translation Models (NMT): Neural machine translation (NMT) models are the most widely used today. These models, like Google Translate or DeepL, are based on architectures such as transformers and are trained with large amounts of bilingual data.
  • Open-Source Models: You can take advantage of open-source models like those available on Hugging Face, for example, the MarianMT model for translations between multiple language pairs, including English and Spanish.

2. Program Development Stages

a) Text Preprocessing

  • Normalization and Cleaning: It’s important to clean the text to remove strange characters, spelling mistakes, and handle the use of abbreviations or contractions. Additionally, you can tokenize the text, i.e., split it into words or subwords that will be processed by the model.
  • Tagging and Annotation: Using syntactic analysis (parsing) techniques to…

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