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by Michele Laurelli

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Machine Translation

Task
Definition

Automatic translation of text from one language to another.

Sequence-to-sequence task. Neural MT (NMT) uses encoder-decoder with attention. Transformers (like mT5, mBART) are state-of-the-art.

Examples

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Google Translate

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English to French

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Multilingual models

Related Terms

Transformer

A neural network architecture based entirely on attention mechanisms, without recurrent or convolutional layers.

Encoder-Decoder

An architecture where an encoder processes input into a representation and a decoder generates output from it.

Michele Laurelli - AI Research & Engineering