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Machine translation used to be the hunt for an universal grammar and parsers/generators as intermediary representation to translate between languages. As you can image, given all the quirks of natural language, this was difficult.

Mar 23, 2023 · 22:35

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OK, as much as I mistrust all the Microsoft and OpenAI papers on arxiv that I consider "science PR",...

Mar 23, 2023 · 22:35

Interestingly, I think what the current LLM approach has achieved is something that always seemed el...

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Started in 1984, it is still ongoing for almost 40 years. Painstakingly trying to distill "common se...

Mar 23, 2023 · 22:35

Machine translation used to be the hunt for an universal grammar and parsers/generators as intermedi...

Mar 23, 2023 · 22:35

Google was one of the first to use their massive treasure trove of bilingual data to shortcut all th...

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