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 research proposals and is open to further research after evaluation. Continue reading
Microsoft did not pull any punches announcing their research findings on new neural machine translation systems that have achieved “human parity” in Chinese to English news translation according to a new human evaluation method they developed. Continue reading
Facebook’s AI Research team delves into the neural machine translation black box and figures out a couple of ways to mitigate performance degradation due to intrinsic and extrinsic “uncertainties.” Continue reading
Paris-based multilingual content platform Datawords completes its second acquisition in three years with the digital marketing firm Vanksen. Datawords generated 2017 revenues of USD 65m. Continue reading
As long as machine translation is fluent, users are more likely to trust its output, regardless if the translation is adequate. This is the implication of a recent study by researchers from the University of Maryland. Continue reading
Pittsburgh startup uTranslated’s attempt at disintermediating the project management portion of the language industry supply chain was no match to what CEO John Frazier calls the “sheer, overwhelming, undeniable convenience” of “AI-driven translation”. Continue reading
As Canada’s Translation Bureau continues discussions with stakeholder groups over various issues, Public Services and Procurement Canada has released a RFI hoping to get feedback from the language industry regarding its procurement processes. Continue reading
Making do with less training data, infusing models with more document-level context, and increasing efficiency and reducing power consumption have been high on the agenda of neural machine translation researchers over recent months. Continue reading
From cease and desist notices to actual arrests—five Chinese nationals allegedly belonging to a large distributor of illegally Chinese-translated Japanese media have been detained by local police. Continue reading
Teresa Marshall, Sr. Director of Localization and Globalization at Salesforce, explains how the CRM and cloud computing giant employs language strategies and partnerships for localization, and comments on their recent exploits in neural machine translation and its implications. Continue reading
European researchers train neural machine translation on 100 million words to translate Lord of the Flies, 1984, Ulysses, and nine other works of literature from English into Catalan. Between one third and one sixth of the sentences “would not need any correction”. Continue reading
Several local news outlets in various US states have all been highlighting the lack of interpreters recently. Medical and legal interpretation demand in focus. Continue reading
In Slator’s December 2017 reader polls, we take a look back at 2017, look forward to expectations at 2018, and pick the brains of our readers regarding Amazon Translate’s pitch towards multilingual vendors. Continue reading
Massive privacy breach at Translate.com, senior managers leaving TransPerfect in droves, RWS buying Moravia, Facebook launching neural machine translation, Pearl Linguistic going bust, and more than two dozen other stories that lit up the Slator website in 2017. Continue reading
From technology, markets, and M&A to investment and the competitive landscape, the language industry leaders we interviewed in 2017 commented on a wide range of issues – here are our top picks. Continue reading
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