Alexa AI's machine translation controls for formality, ranks first place

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Aug 16 2022 | 00:03:24

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Amazon’s Alexa AI team was recently ranked in first place on a shared task at the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), which focused on developing a machine translation (MT) system that could produce output with different levels of formality in the target language.

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