Expanded Translation for the City’s 311 App with Machine Learning
- Mentors
- Michael Lawrence Evans
- Organization
- City of Boston
- Technologies
- python, machine learning, natural language processing, Text Classification
- Topics
- web, machine learning, api, natural language processing, mobile, development, text classification
Historically, my city's 311 app has only been offered in English, but 37.4% of my fellow Bostonians don't speak English. All residents deserve access to our city's resources, and I'm excited to help address this need. I'll be fine-tuning a bidirectional machine translation model on City of Boston-specific phrases reflecting regional dialects unique to Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Haitian Creole-speaking communities of Boston.