John, Thanks for sharing, this is really helpful. I didn't realize that Marcello was involved.
I think we can identify with the NMT danger. I still think there is a big niche that deep learning approaches won't reach for a few years, until GPUs become super prevalent. Which is why I like ModernMT's approaches, which overlap with many of the things I've been thinking. One thing I really like is there automatic context-switching approach. This is a great way to build general-purpose models, and I'd like to mimic it. I have some general ideas about how this should be implemented but am also looking into the literature here. matt > On Dec 1, 2016, at 1:46 PM, John Hewitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had a few good conversations over dinner with this team at AMTA in Austin > in October. > They seem to be in the interesting position where their work is good, but > is in danger of being superseded by neural MT as they come out of the gate. > Clearly, it has benefits over NMT, and is easier to adopt, but may not be > the winner over the long run. > > Here's the link > <https://amtaweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MMT_Tutorial_FedericoTrombetti_wide-cover.pdf> > to their AMTA tutorial. > > -John > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (3010) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Wow seems like this kind of overlaps with BigTranslate as well.. thanks >> for passing >> along Matt >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >> Principal Data Scientist, Engineering Administrative Office (3010) >> Manager, Open Source Projects Formulation and Development Office (8212) >> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >> Office: 180-503E, Mailstop: 180-503 >> Email: [email protected] >> WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Director, Information Retrieval and Data Science Group (IRDS) >> Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department >> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >> WWW: http://irds.usc.edu/ >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> >> On 12/1/16, 4:47 AM, "Matt Post" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just came across this, and it's really cool: >> >> https://github.com/ModernMT/MMT >> >> See the README for some great use cases. I'm surprised I'd never heard >> of this before as it's EU funded and associated with U Edinburgh. >> >>
