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Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate

At a glance

Attention helps neural translation models focus on relevant words as each word is generated.

In one paragraph

Attention lets a translation model focus on relevant source words as it generates each translated word. This avoids squeezing an entire sentence into one fixed summary. The approach improved English-to-French translation, particularly for longer sentences that challenged earlier models.

Authors 3

  1. Dzmitry Bahdanau
  2. Kyunghyun Cho
  3. Yoshua Bengio

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