What Was Your Motivation at the Time to Work on Language?

Yoshua Friedman: I did a lot of work on language models before they became cool. He proposed methods that were pre-closed to the ones that 20 years later ended up in Google's and IBM's and Microsoft speech recognition systems. "I started writing about this idea even before working on language with my brother, Sammy in 1999, 2000 or something is sort of neural nets to learn complicated high dimensional discrete distributions"