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+# Neural-Machine-Translation-by-Jointly-Learning-to-Align-and-Translate
+Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to maximize the translation performance.
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