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US language service provider posts small increase in revenue for the quarter to USD 7.5m for the third quarter 2016, adjusted earnings up by 55% to USD 0.33m YoY. Merrill veteran Paul Rome, who was hired as COO in mid 2015, to leave company.
California courts work to provide full language services even as Governor approves funding for medical interpreter pilot program. North Carolina follows suit, improves language access; no more procrastinating for US doctors in providing free translations, and Oregon court interpreters get pay hike.
When Google’s CEO goes on stage and measures translation accuracy to the third decimal place, it is as good a time as any to take a closer look at the yardstick he uses. A short introduction to BLEU
After a five-year legal battle, Los Angeles finally bites the bullet and signs off on more free language services for litigants with limited English proficiency. Chief federal law enforcement officer of seven California counties vows greater access to judicial system for LEP individuals.
The European Asylum Support Office opened a request for proposal worth EUR 63.5m for interpretation, interpretation equipment, and so-called cultural mediation. Four-year contract requires on-the-ground presence across much of Southern and Eastern Europe.
Chinese company that failed to pay for 170,000 tons of iron ore tries a hail mary by blaming the translator for arbitration loss. Australia’s Federal Court unimpressed; says claim comes a bit late and reminds the company that there is no such thing as a perfect translation.
Luxembourg-based Amplexor wins contract against 13 competitors; Chief Sales Officer estimates volume at 200,000 pages annually into and from all official EU languages and points to the challenge of managing such a contract successfully.
Dutch language service provider Concorde beats out 11 competitors and secures four-year contract with EU agency Eurojust. Incumbent vendor Word Perfect’s COO confirms it submitted a bid.
New study shows neural machine translation (NMT) performs significantly better than traditional statistical methods. Researchers say NMT’s computing cost no longer an issue, but call the translation process still opaque.
California's 2016/17 state budget sees spending on court interpretation rise nearly 10% to over USD 100m a year; Spanish, by far, the dominant language with Vietnamese and Korean a distant second and third. USD 3m pilot project approved to study state funding for medical interpreters.
US language service provider Sajan posts small loss for the first six months of 2016 as it looks to spend its way back to growth by boosting sales and marketing.
US federal provision requiring translation services for patients with limited English proficiency leaves America’s dentists scrambling to comply. Beleaguered dentists ask for six-month reprieve.
The long-running Siemens corruption and bribery scandal encounters another bottleneck pending the translation of case-related documents.
CEO of Korea’s largest Internet company Naver shuts down translation service after crowdsourcing platform Flitto accuses the service of being nearly identical to its own.
Italy’s semantic analysis firm Expert System reports EUR 30m in revenues for 2015. CEO discusses how the natural language processing hype helps his company and says machine translation is “the toughest thing you can do.”
London’s translate plus releases results for 2015 financial year with revenues broadly flat and EBITDA slightly down. Director Robert Timms says current financial year to deliver strong top and bottom line growth when the books are closed end of August 2016
Paris-based Lingua Custodia completes funding round, CEO says company targets to close 10 major clients for its Moses-based MT engine for the financial sector by the end of 2016.
When news appears on the radar, Slator curates it. Slovakia regulation on expat document translation kicks in. US DoJ closes Colorado court interpreters case. Bloomberg to triple Spanish-language content production. And Sajan names new board of directors.
Lobby group Americans for Financial Reform urges the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to require banks and financial institutions to provide home buying documents in eight languages.
Barely six months since its last acquisition, New York-based Morningside Translations acquires TranZlations. Chief Investment Officer Elizabeth Schilowitz describes the New Jersey-based translation and interpreting company as characteristic of the companies they seek to acquire.
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