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Neural Machine Translation
Philipp Koehn
Draft of textbook chapter on neural machine translation. a comprehensive treatment of the topic, ranging from introduction to neural networks, computation graphs, description of the currently dominant attentional sequence-to-sequence model, recent refinements, alternative architectures and challenges. Written as chapter for the textbook Statistical Machine Translation. Used in the JHU Fall 2017 class on machine translation.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Translation | 20NEWS | tensorflow/tensor2tensor | 1-of-100 Accuracy | 5 | #1 of 2 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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