Body: <p>I frequently need to translate product names for hundreds of similar products -- and I have a list of past product names. Is it possible to train AI to review past translations and translate? It doesn't have any special grammar, simply the name (with some industry-specific usage that a general machine translator can't do.) What would I need to do to get started?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: One of the big problems here is if the product names are [idiomatic](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/idiom) or involve [wordplay](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wordplay). This feels like a very difficult NLP problem.  By contrast, technical names would be fairly easy.  It seems to me that translating product description accurately would be more important than translating product names.
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Comments.Text: They are unique. i.e. One word in Chinese always translates to one word in English. However, the way the words are ordered and splitting up Chinese text into 'words' require some learning (not a straight-forward find/replace) that's why I thought some kind of pattern-matching and learning can solve this.
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Tags: <natural-language-processing><machine-translation>
Title: Translate product names with AI
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ThreadText: # Translate product names with AI
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-03-08)
  
  I frequently need to translate product names for hundreds of similar products -- and I have a list of past product names. Is it possible to train AI to review past translations and translate? It doesn't have any special grammar, simply the name (with some industry-specific usage that a general machine translator can't do.) What would I need to do to get started?
  
  **Tags:** natural-language-processing, machine-translation
  
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  > **username_1**: One of the big problems here is if the product names are [idiomatic](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/idiom) or involve [wordplay](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wordplay). This feels like a very difficult NLP problem.  By contrast, technical names would be fairly easy.  It seems to me that translating product description accurately would be more important than translating product names.  
  > **username_0**: They are unique. i.e. One word in Chinese always translates to one word in English. However, the way the words are ordered and splitting up Chinese text into 'words' require some learning (not a straight-forward find/replace) that's why I thought some kind of pattern-matching and learning can solve this.  
  
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