The current state of neural machine translation

This morning I woke up with the idea of assessing the current state of neural machine translation. I decided that the logical target of my brief research should be Google Translate (translate.google.com). After a bit of work and with the help of Stanford past years records I managed to put together a 9 years history of machine translation. Long story short I managed to prepare a picture that speaks for itself. While between 2009 and 2016 not much happened, please have a look at 2016-2017 and then compare 2018 with the ground truth…