>> Maybe some texts that describe a given language should also be used.
But in what language would those texts be? Language models used for translation are trained on sentence pairs. How would e.g. a book on the grammar of Finnish, written in Finnish and without a translation in English, help learn how to translate Finnish into English?
I'm genuinely asking. This sounds like an interesting idea- but how exactly would it work?
I don't know! My thinking is that if humans can read a Finnish book and learn facts about the Finnish grammar, there must be a way to exploit this in machine learning.
But in what language would those texts be? Language models used for translation are trained on sentence pairs. How would e.g. a book on the grammar of Finnish, written in Finnish and without a translation in English, help learn how to translate Finnish into English?
I'm genuinely asking. This sounds like an interesting idea- but how exactly would it work?