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Re:Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpor... by OscarCunningham on Thursday November 02, 2017 @12:58PM (#15612129)
I wonder if this relies on the sentences of the corpora referencing similar concepts. I'd be interested to see if it worked on a corpus of modern English and a corpus of classical Latin or Greek.
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Re:Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpor... by visarga on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:44AM (#15616926)
> the model starts with an unsupervised naive translation model obtained by making word by word translation of sentences using a parallel dictionary learned in an unsupervised way

So they DID have a parallel dictionary at first. How they learned it is another problem.

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Re:Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpor... by nl on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:49AM (#15616774)
Temporal drift of concepts is definitely a thing - there's a good paper from Stanford's NLP group showing it in word embedding for English.

The interesting thing is that this model might automatically correct for it (although of course it couldn't translate things for which no concept exists).

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