Applying AI Techniques to Facebook and Instagram for translation of low-resource languages
No Language Left Behind (NLLB) is a first-of-its-kind, AI breakthrough project that open-sources models capable of delivering evaluated, high-quality translations directly between 200 languages—including low-resource languages like Asturian, Luganda, Urdu and more. It aims to give people the opportunity to access and share web content in their native language, and communicate with anyone, anywhere, regardless of their language preferences.
No Language Left Behind (NLLB) is a first-of-its-kind, AI breakthrough project that open-sources models capable of delivering evaluated, high-quality translations directly between 200 languages—including low-resource languages like Asturian, Luganda, Urdu and more. It aims to give people the opportunity to access and share web content in their native language, and communicate with anyone, anywhere, regardless of their language preferences.
We’re committed to bringing people together. That’s why we’re using modeling techniques and learnings from our NLLB research to improve translations of low-resource languages on Facebook and Instagram. By applying these techniques and learnings to our production translation systems, people will be able to make more authentic, more meaningful connections in their preferred or native languages. In the future, we hope to extend our learnings from NLLB to more Meta apps.
