Here Are the Language Highlights from the Popular ‘State of AI Report 2022’
Snapshot of the most interesting language technology highlights from the latest edition of the State of AI Report compiled by a group of venture capitalists and researchers.
Natural Language Processing
Discover what’s new in the field of natural language processing, from ground-breaking research in academia to Big Tech’s developments.
How Big of a Deal Is ‘Whisper’ for ASR and Multilingual Transcription?
Open-source AI model Whisper uses multilingual, diverse datasets, and weak supervision to build an ASR system that can transcribe and translate.
Meta Releases Large Dataset for Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation
Meta has released SpeechMatrix, a large-scale mined corpus of multilingual speech-to-speech translations.
Researchers Experiment With Machine Translation to Simplify Medical Language
When researchers experimented with machine translation to simplify medical content for patients, the results were mixed but promising.
Can Machine Translation Facilitate Better Global Meetings in a Common Language?
Computer researchers at the University of Maryland experiment with machine translation to show how global meetings can be optimized.
Slator Pro Guide: Finding Growth in Adjacent Services
Pro Guide for LSPs to identify growth opportunities in adjacent services. Profiles 15 adjacent services, analyzing barriers to entry, risks, and synergies.
Can ‘Huge Amounts’ of Synthetic In-Domain Data Improve Machine Translation?
Machine translation researchers at Ireland’s Adapt Center propose a new approach to domain-specific MT training using back-translation for data augmentation.
Automation Leader UiPath Bolts On Text Mining Startup Re:infer
UiPath acquires AI startup Re:infer, adding communications mining expertise to robotic process automation capabilities.
Here Are 5 NLP Terms That Now Occur Naturally in Localization
NLP technologies drive the evolution of localization, turning jargon into common terms used to manage today’s ops and tomorrow’s strategic plans. Here are five NLP terms.
thebigword Owner Susquehanna Leads Speechmatics’ USD 62m Series B
Speech-to-text company Speechmatics raises USD 62m; declines “frothy” valuation; aims for GBP 100m in annual recurring revenues.
Research on Automatic Correction of Human Translation Wins Award
Natural language processing scientists from Lilt train model on human translation errors. The goal, to automate the correction of human translations.
Meta Doubles Down on Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation
Meta eliminates text generation in speech to speech translation; shares code and research with the public.
AI Organizations Release Best Practices for Deploying Large Language Models
Cohere, OpenAI, and AI21 Labs publish preliminary set of best practices applicable to any organization developing or deploying large language models.
Here Are the Best Natural Language Processing Papers From ACL 2022
ACL 2022 Best Paper Committee announces most important contributions this year; machine learning and machine translation among top conference themes.
Large Language Models May Leak Personal Data, Studies Show
Large pretrained language models (PLMs) memorize lots of personal data. Researchers examine data privacy risks associated with PLMs, propose solutions.
Amazon Unveils Long-Term Goal in Natural Language Processing
Amazon presents three ways it hopes to extend current natural language processing R&D beyond just a small subset of the world's 7,000+ languages.
Meta Unveils Supercomputer to Power Translation in the Metaverse
Meta shoots for completing world’s fastest supercomputer by mid-2022. Here’s what it can do in terms of natural language processing and translation — and what the facility looks like today.
For Dataset Creation, Humans Should Evaluate Machine Text — New Research
As more language service providers explore data collection and annotation, a new study shows large language models generate more diverse content, while humans excel at rating it.
Facebook Takes a Stab at True Speech-to-Speech Translation via Textless NLP
Facebook sees textless natural language processing (NLP) as rendering automatic speech translation (ASR) obsolete by working in true end-to-end fashion: from speech input to speech output.
Multilingual Chatbots: The Conversation Has Yet to Get Longer
Virtual assistants are already part of the e-commerce setting, but taking them multilingual and training them for conversations with multiple variables still poses challenges.
At F8: Facebook Says It Now Has a ‘Powerful Tool to Think About Language Problems in a Language Agnostic Way’
Natural language processing and neural MT feature heavily as Facebook discusses developments in artificial intelligence at their developer conference F8 2019.
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