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2019年中考英语专项练习—阅读理解之科普知识与现代科技
第一节 阅读理解。
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Artificial intelligence(AI,人工智能)can help us make phone calls. It can guide us to where we want to go. It can play games. And now,AI can do even more things.
Researchers from Microsoft have created the first machine translation system that can translate news articles from Chinese to English.
The researchers tested the system by asking it to translate hundreds of sentences taken from news stories. Then,language experts compared the results to the translation that were done by humans. The experts said that the system's translations were as good as the human translations.
Experts used several methods to improve the system's translation abilities. “Much of our research is really learned from how we humans do things,” lead researcher Liu Tieyan said.
One method is called dual learning(对偶学习). In this method,the system translates every sentence from Chinese to English,as well as translates the sentences back from English