Indeed, most academic laboratories do not have the means to carry out the level of validation that would be required, for example, to translate a finding from the laboratory to the clinic.
Last year, the company partnered with CNN and BuzzFeed, for example, to translate some of those company's articles into Spanish, Portuguese and French.
They relied on Western scholars to teach the first academies but used local examples to translate that knowledge into local contexts.
And starting off the day trying to decide what you want to wear and just pointing your camera at a jean jacket is a natural example of trying to translate more seamlessly an idea that a user might not be able to naturally articulate in a search.
As an example, my company created a platform to translate our expertise in post-acute care coordination into tools that help providers deliver better care.
Examples include a program to translate from the declarative Regular Expression formalism into the executable Finite State Machine notation, and a Pascal compiler written in Logo.
Also, something that's caught my attention is CycleGAN, which is a way to translate images (for example, cows->horses or daytime->nighttime), WITHOUT the need for training pairs!
The paper also provides a non-trivial example of how to translate from the combinatorial view of designs (sets with incidence relations) to the statistical (sets with partitions).
For example, DSpace has a plugin system to translate data between the internal metadata format and external data and metadata formats.
It also bore within it the seeds of the one major failure of his career - the Tank Girl movie of 1995, widely recognised today as a key example of how not to translate an anarchic comic-strip into big screen entertainment.
