What is Language Data? — Why the quality of data matters
Internet of Things(IoT), robots, drones, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles… These are all the driving force of the 4th industrial revolution and to keep this driving force, data is essential. This is why data is often referred to as the new oil in the 21st century.
Many different types of data exist, and Flitto is especially specialized in language data. Flitto’s language data business includes the text, voice, and image data.
- Text Data
Text data consists of a corpus and a parallel corpus. - Voice Data
The voice data consists of multilingual spontaneous speech data and general voice data. - Image Data
Image data includes various types of images containing text, such as signboards, menu boards, handwriting, and documents.
How will this language data be used?
Language data can be used in various fields and domains. It can be used as basic data for language processing research and is also used for software development in speech recognition and multilingual translations. In addition, it can be widely used in various fields such as tourism and linguistics.
Text data can be used to develop AI translators or chatbots. Recently, many companies in e-commerce and finance industries have introduced chatbot service for customer consulting through web and apps.
Voice data is receiving particular attention as voice recognition services are becoming more and more popular. This type of language data is needed in many fields, such as companies that provide voice search, voice recognition navigation, remote controls, and also foreign language education services.
Lastly, image data is required when developing an image recognition that provides search results or translation results simply by taking pictures. It is also used for developing the systems for autonomous vehicles.
How does Flitto collect Language Data?
Flitto collects multilingual language data through an integrated translation platform which has more than 10 million users. This means that Flitto collects more natural, latest, non-artificial data, and the data types are more diverse and the data accuracy is much higher.
Flitto’s High Quality Language Data
Through Flitto’s translation service Collective Intelligence service by Flitto Lite, the data directly translated by human translators is collected.
- Therefore, Flitto is able to collect the data of high accuracy with the method considering the context and nuances of the original text, which is actually impossible yet by the machine translation.
- Data can be quickly collected by the active users in the collective intelligence service.
- The diversity of language data is guaranteed with the participation of a large number of users from different countries and cultures, speaking different languages.
- All data is free from the copyright issues.
The quality and performance of artificial intelligence is absolutely up to the data. Not only the amount of data but also the quality and accuracy is very important. As mentioned in the previous post about history of machine translator, the importance of accurate data has increased.
As such, Flitto supports each partner company’s AI development and performance improvement by providing the finest and latest high-quality language data.
