Machine Translation Weekly 87: Notes from ACL 2021
The story of the science fiction novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (mostly known via Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker) takes place after an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation. Some aliens stopped by, made a roadside picnic, and left behind plenty of weird and dangerous objects having features that contemporary science cannot explain. Although the UN tries to prevent people from entering the visitation zones before everything gets fully explored and explained, objects from the zone are traded on […]
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