It may just be one example, but the fluent result from Papago was an unexpected surprise, given its status as an app from a portal site operator whose brand recognition and global standing is perceived as far behind the artificial-intelligence giant Google. While Google’s translation tool awkwardly interpreted the phrase as “hold my hand in my hand,” Papago, an app by Naver, the top search engine in Korea, showed the English expression “eat my hat.” Many memes were related to results that different translation apps gave for his traditional Korean expression “jangeul jijida,” which literally means “boiling soy sauce in one’s hand while lighting a fire under it.” 2 - the internet was flooded with parodies of his imprudent remarks. 30 to “eat his hat” if the three opposition parties succeed in impeaching President Park Geun-hye - and then actually did on Dec. Lee Jung-hyun, chairman of the ruling Saenuri Party, vowed on Nov. After joining Naver in 2007, Kim worked on search modeling and voice recognition and relocated to Naver Labs, a separate unit, to develop machine translation and the Papago project. After earning a master’s degree in natural language processing from Pohang University of Science and Technology in Pohang, North Gyeongsang, he started working at LG Electronics in 2001 and spent six years doing voice recognition research. Kim Jun-seok, leader of the Papago development team at Naver Labs, holds up his phone with the Papago app at Naver’s headquarters in Seongnam, Gyeonggi.

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