Google's GNMT (Google Neural Machine Translation) system allows it to translate between language's it hasn't been taught to, by creating interlingua (artificial language) between pairs of the languages it wants to translate and other languages

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Google's GNMT (Google Neural Machine Translation) system allows it to translate between language's it hasn't been taught to, by creating interlingua (artificial language) between pairs of the languages it wants to translate and other languages