Andy Way Archives

Industry News • By Maria Stasimioti On 14 Mar 2022

EU-Funded Language Technology Platform Adds Tools, Expands Language Coverage

EU-funded twin projects on language equality aim to close gap between high- and low-resource languages; houses growing language technology resources and corpora.

Machine Translation • By Gino Diño On 22 Jan 2019

He Said, She Said: Addressing Gender in Neural Machine Translation

Google is concerned it might be mistakenly assuming genders in machine translation; initial effort to reduce gender bias only the first step in dealing with similar challenges in neural machine translation.

Academia • By Gino Diño On 2 Nov 2018

The Art of Hyping Machine Translation

What’s behind the arcane research paper that Baidu helped spin into a machine translation breakthrough celebrated across the media?

Machine Translation • By Gino Diño On 14 Sep 2018

Google, Microsoft, Baidu Step Up NMT Research in Record August as BLEU Takes Heat

August 2018 became the busiest month ever for neural machine translation research as more papers call for improved evaluation methods and big tech companies step up the number of submissions.

Academia • By Gino Diño On 24 Aug 2018

In Human vs. Machine Translation, Compare Documents, Not Sentences

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 from the wrong angle.

Academia • By Gino Diño On 3 Apr 2018

Measuring Machine Translation Quality in the Era of Neural

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 the new standard.

Technology • By Gino Diño On 19 Jan 2018

Machine Translates Literature and About 25% Was Flawless, Research Claims

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”.

Technology • By Eden Estopace On 30 Jun 2017

Here Is Europe’s State of the Art in Machine Translation Research

Europe continues to ramp up research in language technology. The number of papers published on machine translation in an academic journal has reached the highest number in more than a decade.

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