Researchers at the University of Amsterdam are using neural networks to help a statistical machine translation systems learn what all human translators know—that the best translation of a word often ...

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When Google Translate was released, in 2006, I was an eighth grader stumbling through introductory Spanish, and my teacher had little reason to worry about her students using it to cheat. It’s almost ...