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The fall of Symbolic AI and the rise of Deep Learning

In the last 3-5 decades, Symbolic AI fell out of favor primarily because it did not meet the false expectation that it created at the time. It was not because it did not have an impactful effect or because it did not solve difficult problems. Deep learning is currently popular because we are nowhere near the limit of what results it can produce.

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Translation Memory

A translation memory is a database (static or dynamically growing) of existing translators, structured in a way that facilitates translation re-use. Amongst translators, sometimes the concept has been looked at with negativity because the proprietary software that advertises having this feature, sometimes were designed with a very basic, limiting, and error-prone implementation.

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Parallel Corpora

Traditionally, the term bitext is used to refer to documents along with their translation into other languages. But currently is used to refer to wide parallel sources including various translation of a common source (e.g. sacred texts, official United Nations documents, movies subtitles, etc.).

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Digital Storytelling

This essay intends to briefly describe Digital Storytelling by referring to its history and its development in the digital age. Digital Storytelling is defined by the focus on its application in education and advantages that it brings to students and teachers.

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