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Presumably what you're missing is the fact that this is translating from Y->Z in a single step, rather than doing two separate translations.
by eridius 10y ago
Presumably what you're missing is the fact that this is translating from Y->Z in a single step, rather than doing two separate translations.
- spynxic 10y agoThen the high dimensional representation of the language that allows such a translation to be possible is profound
- mattkrause 10y agoThey're certainly not doing English to Portuguese by way of Spanish or anything like that. However, you could almost read the paper as "We can translate something from a natural language into a high-dimensional representation, then turn that high-dimensional representation back into (another, possibly different) natural language. "
- empath75 10y agoIt seems similar to automatically captioning images.
- mattkrause 10y agoVery much so! The two tasks are surprisingly interchangable. I once worked on a project where we used a statistical MT approach to "translate" between image features and captions--and I don't think we were the only ones trying such things. In a pleasing bit of symmetry, the attentional network used here looks like it was initially developed for image captioning.