Creation of an electronic translator for a rare language. Is it possible for student volunteers to participate?

Question

Machine translation from one language to another

So the preamble...
Our philologist turned to me. She had a desire to see the same as Yandex - a translator, but for her own language [Kabardian]. She is an enterprising person. Children can be organized.
Only here is the question - in which direction to start digging and is it worth it?

Answer 1

Apparently, you are interested in Deep Learning, namely Machine Translation (seq2seq). There is a tutorial for TensorFlow . But as a start, I advise you to try the high-level Keras library .

Answer 2

look at Yandex / Google at least Central Asian (yes, including Kazakh) and cry

Answer 3

Creating a dictionary is possible.
Creation of a full-fledged translator -
no you need a corpus with millions of texts translated into 2 languages.
You can "push" the initiative to the top, and there Yandex will be asked to do for "all the rare languages ​​​​of Russia"
Within the framework of the school and even the institute, it is not possible to build a full-fledged translator "ala from corporations" at all.