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They'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 someth
by mattkrause 10y ago
They'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.