A correction, I think, for part one. It is mentioned that neural network based translation is "recently proposed," but attempts to use neural networks in machine translation date back to at least the 90's.
In high school I chose CS as the category for my IB paper, and chose to write about machine translation. Neural network methods from the 90's is one thing I looked at, and I'm a bit surprised to see neural network translators making a small comeback in the past couple of years.
This is part two in an in-depth series on Neural Machine Translation by Kyunghyun Cho, a leading expert on machine translation (Postdoc at U. Montreal, joining NYU faculty in fall).
In high school I chose CS as the category for my IB paper, and chose to write about machine translation. Neural network methods from the 90's is one thing I looked at, and I'm a bit surprised to see neural network translators making a small comeback in the past couple of years.