How academic institutions educate and shape tomorrow’s business leaders and technologists
Real-time terminology assistance for simultaneous interpreters may be well on its way — but will it be truly useful in typical high-stakes environments? Continue reading
Far corners of European Union reduced to one spot in Brussels as 28 young translators receive their prizes in 12th Juvenes Translatores awarding rites. Continue reading
As localization becomes even more technology-driven, Middlebury Institute of International Studies reclassifies MA localization program as a STEM degree. Continue reading
European Commission announces winners of 12th Juvenes Translatores, the annual competition to find the best young translators from 28 EU Member States. Continue reading
Researchers analyzed the brainwave activity of professional simultaneous interpreters and found out how they worked, while also scientifically confirming common wisdom: It is important not to... Continue reading
Top US university Carnegie Mellon, known for its natural language processing and neural machine translation research, has launched a new Master’s program in Global Communication and Applied... Continue reading
As AI is booming, the world’s largest natural language processing conference doubled in size this year and attracted 2,500 researchers. Global tech companies came looking for fresh talent. And... Continue reading
What’s behind the arcane research paper that Baidu helped spin into a machine translation breakthrough celebrated across the media? Continue reading
Microsoft’s “human parity” claims drew skepticism from a team of neural machine translation researchers as they found that much of the research and industry community is looking at the problem... Continue reading
Research submissions on neural machine translations ballooned from 91 in the first half of 2017 to 196 in the first half of 2018, although by July 2018 submissions were slowing down. Continue reading
Professor Laura Burian, the new dean of the Middlebury Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education, says her priority is to adapt the curriculum to prepare... Continue reading
Some familiar names helped pushed May 2018 to the top of the charts in terms of neural machine translation research. Meanwhile, the hottest research trends appear to be the race to better quality... Continue reading
US researchers outline how technology could be used to support the work of simultaneous interpreters. They propose analyzing the linguist’s performance on the fly via real-time quality feedback... Continue reading
Professor Andy Way, Deputy Director of ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, unpacks quality expectations for machine translation as the language industry increasingly favors neural MT as... Continue reading
Facebook is inviting the academic community to submit research proposals for a USD 20,000 to USD 40,000, one-year research grant starting June 2018. Facebook research will award up to four... Continue reading
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