News and analysis of the latest developments in machine translation, computer-aided-translation, natural language processing, and other language-related areas in artificial intelligence.
Researchers investigate the unexpected behavior of NMT and find surprising differences in the translations of extremely similar sentences. Continue reading
A group of Netflix machine learning engineers explore the use of back-translations to simplify subtitle source sentences and improve machine translation output. Continue reading
Amazon Prime Video researchers have developed a new quality estimation system for subtitle translations, which tells you when post-editing or rewrites are needed. Continue reading
Japanese researcher-developers created an open-source all-in-one speech-to-speech translation toolkit to help machine translation researchers, and it’s publicly available on Github. Continue reading
Google Translate unveils a new approach to solving gender bias in machine translation, after its “99% reliable” 2018 model encountered problems and failed to scale. Continue reading
Already offering live captions in Google Meet, Google is now researching simultaneous translation approaches for live captions. Continue reading
Two research scientists from Apple surveyed 30 years worth of research into speech translation and here’s what they found. Continue reading
A research paper published in April 2020 explores how to reduce gender bias in neural machine translation (NMT) using transfer learning and fine-tuning. Continue reading
Group of leading researchers finds that the way machine translation quality is evaluated by humans is broken. Group issues five recommendations on how to fix it. Continue reading
US Department of Homeland Security launches RFP for “portable language translator” device to replace “on-scene human translator.” Budget: USD 800,000. Continue reading
Over 60 contributors in 15 African countries are gathering data and developing machine translation models to translate the Internet into indigenous languages. Continue reading
As the language industry transitions to an operating model where the first draft is mostly generated by machines, many are looking for ways to quantify linguists' value-add. Edit-distance can help. Continue reading
An October 2019 paper by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute examines how China can employ machine translation tools used by consumers to collect data on users outside the country. Continue reading
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