Stanford Seminar - Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System

Explore the groundbreaking advancements in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) through this Stanford University seminar featuring Melvin Johnson from Google. Delve into the evolution of machine translation, focusing on Google's Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) system and its innovative approach to multilingual translation. Discover the concept of Zero-Shot translation, which enables language pairs never seen before by the model to be translated. Gain insights into the potential existence of an interlingua - a language-independent representation. Learn about the collaborative efforts of the Google Brain and Google Translate teams in developing these cutting-edge technologies. Understand the implications of these advancements for the field of Natural Language Processing and the future of global communication.