| Challenge: | morphological inflection generation and historical text normalization tasks are character-level tasks that outperform recurrent models. |
| Approach: | They propose a technique to handle feature-guided character-level transduction that further improves performance. |
| Outcome: | The transformer outperforms recurrent models on morphological inflection and historical text normalization tasks. |
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