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Reminds me reading about Google's new translator. It apparently uses a unique internal language it developed during training. All the languages it knows go through this internal language / neural pattern.

From what I recall reading, Google has people researching this internal language to see if they can discover any new interesting things about human thought.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/22/googles-ai-translation-too...

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

Isn't that what they are doing?

My impression of the pure DL approaches is that the preferred way to go about it is to map from each available language example, via a common latent representation, to every other available language example. The common currency is not English but a vector space representing something much more akin to the meaning underlying the statements.

I don't know Facebook's specifics, but typically in research they will train a wide variety of examples, e.g.

English -> French French -> English English -> German French -> German