Friday, September 27, 2013

How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics | MIT Technology Review

How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics | MIT Technology Review: "Having identified this mapping, it is then a simple matter to apply it to the bigger language spaces. Mikolov and co say it works remarkably well. “Despite its simplicity, our method is surprisingly effective: we can achieve almost 90% precision@5 for translation of words between English and Spanish,” they say."

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