Machine learning people: have there been successful efforts to do automated idiom transation? Like equivalent proverbs in diff langs?
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my hunch: latest deep-NN-machine-translation will soon do. already learns lang-independent sentence vector, then emits in alt langs.
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been some hard work from MSFT NLP groups. Smets et al: researchgate.net/publication/25. book reviewed here also worthy linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-2
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I recall from conversations with NLP people that detecting/classifying idiomatic or metaphoric usage is itself a hard research problem.





