Shortcomings
- Corpus creation can be costly for users with limited resources.
- The results are unexpected. Superficial fluency can be deceiving.
- Statistical machine translation do not work well between languages that have significantly different word orders (e.g. Japanese and European languages).
- The benefits are overemphasized for European languages.
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