Meet a Facebook Engineer: Ben Gertzfield
Feb 4, 2012Ben Hamilton
Summary
This post details the work on enabling non-English characters in fan page URLs, which previously resulted in garbage URLs for non-English names. It also discusses the success of crowd-sourced translation driven by user engagement and the application of MQTT for real-time messaging in Facebook Messenger.
More from the Internationalization and Language Modeling trail
- Language packs: Meta’s mobile localization solution
- Integrating autoconversion: Facebook’s path from Zawgyi to Unicode
- Expanding automatic machine translation to more languages
- Scaling neural machine translation to bigger data sets with faster training and inference
- Under the hood: Multilingual embeddings