An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks

Re:An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks by ape4 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @10:36AM (#20525712)

I doubt Google Translate uses RNN. They use Statistical Machine Translation. Oops, I see they switched to NN in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate

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Re:An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks by probably_wrong on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:17AM (#20526094)

I feel I should point out that those two things are not mutually exclusive. RNNs are, after all, a mechanism for learning conditional probabilities.

I think the confusion comes from Google itself, who used the term "Statistical Machine Translation" (SMT) to refer to "Rule-based SMT". Both methods are statistical.

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Re:An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks by MiroF on Thursday July 25, 2019 @07:26PM (#20530876)

SMT as a term of art in the translation field means rule based SMT... it's not a google particularity, I see the same usage in both industry and academia

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Re:An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks by MiroF on Thursday July 25, 2019 @07:28PM (#20530885)

Every top MT uses pure-NMT, not SMT

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