[Explanation] With the continuous improvement of traffic conditions in the Yi District of Sichuan, more and more Yi people have stepped out of the mountain. However, due to historical, geographical, economic and other reasons, language is still an invisible obstacle for some people to integrate into the outside world.

  [Commentary] "Post-95" Le Kuwu Niuya is a Yi student from 2016 Southwest Petroleum University. Since he went to university, some relatives and friends from Liangshan Zhaojue's hometown have come to Chengdu to see a doctor and do things, and will always call him to help translate. In order to help the Yi people to solve the inconvenience caused by the language barrier, in 2017, Le Ku Wu Niuya and his Yi friends began to develop a Yi-Chinese mutual translation software called "Yao".

  [Commentary] On May 20, Le Ku Wu Niuya told reporters his journey of developing software. In 2018, he and the team officially launched version 1.0 of "Yaoyou". However, due to the single function and the lack of data in the "corpus", the software was not well received by the market at the time, which gave the team a head start.

  [Same period] ("Post-95" Yi students Le Kuwu Niuya) In order to make the APP translation more accurate, more convenient and easier to use, we went to the village and collected the "corpus" in the village in about 15 days. The more "corpora" collected, the richer our background data and the higher the accuracy.

  [Commentary] Now, the team of Le Ku Wu Niuya increased from the original two to 12 people, attracting college students from Central University for Nationalities, Sichuan University, University of Electronic Technology and other universities to join. "Yaoyou" Beta 2.0 added language interaction and online music service of Yi nationality on the original basis, and the number of registered users reached 20,000 within one month. Le Kuwu Niuya admitted that although "Yao" has won many awards in entrepreneurial competitions, this software still has a long way to go before it matures.

  [Same period] ("Post-95" Yi college student Le Ku Wu Niu Yan) The most difficult thing to do is actually technical difficulties. Because what we can do now is the translation of simple sentences and words, but a coherent, long period of time requires a lot of skills (art) and requires constant learning and accumulation. However, we have some self-learning aspects of natural language recognition, which is not systematic (learning), so the technology part is the most difficult.

  [Commentary] In the memory of He Yuyang, a counselor at Southwest Petroleum University, when he first came into contact with Le Ku Wu Niu An, he was a person who did not speak well, so he paid special attention to him. After learning that Le Kuwu Niuya started to develop "Yaoyou", He Yuyang could obviously feel the changes in him.

  [Same period] (He Yuyang, a counselor at Southwest Petroleum University) He had a chance, and he came to communicate with me that he had the idea of ​​making an app for the Yi people, and then we started to build such a platform. Later, he was introduced to some teachers of our school's double innovation center and some other project guidance, and began to do it. In the process, I also found that bitterness became more confident, and in terms of expression, it was also very smooth through the polishing of the game.

  [Commentary] Talking about his plans after graduation, Le Ku Wu Niuya said that he would run "Yao" as a lifelong business. At present, he and his team have established three physical stores of "Yaoyou Shopping Mall" in Daliangshan, preferentially hiring poverty-stricken households of Yi nationality, which has already driven 15 households in poverty.

  [Same period] ("Post-95" Yi college student Le Ku Wu Niuya) This matter can not only rely on public welfare (support), but to find a profit point, which is to combine it with the "Yao You Mall" . My future plan is to open a "Yaoyou Mall" in each township, connecting all of this area into a chain of "Yaoyou Mall" stores, and continue to develop this software with the income obtained. This matter will last forever.

  He Xi Chen Xuanbin reports from Chengdu, Sichuan

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]