Microsoft Translator releases literary Chinese translation When reading ancient Chinese poetry, we often marvel at the very wonderful words ancient writers could use to describe people, events, objects, and scenes. This is a splendid cultural treasure that has been left behind for us. However, similar to Shakespeare’s verses in the English language, the literary Chinese used by these poets is often difficult for modern day people to understand, and the meanings and subtleties embedded within it are frequently lost. To solve this problem, researchers at Microsoft Research Asia adopted the latest neural machine translation techniques to train direct translation models…