Seq2SeqPy: A Lightweight and Customizable Toolkit for Neural Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Neural models have attracted a lot of attention in the past few years due to their complexity and need to be customized to meet specific needs. |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight toolkit for sequence-to-sequence modeling that prioritizes simplicity and ability to customize the standard architectures easily. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool performs similarly or even better than a very widely used sequence-to-sequence toolkit. |
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