Over 300 Language Experts Made the ‘Most Cited Scientists List’
Public database ranks scientists based on number of citations. Over 300 language experts among the most quoted.
Academia
How English Dominates Cognitive Science
Researchers show evidence of bias in cognitive science coming from the dominance of English across the field; propose ways to mitigate it.
UZH and ZHAW Offer Certificate in Advanced Studies in Translation Technology and AI
University of Zurich (UZH) and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) offer Certificate in Advanced Studies in Translation Technology and AI. Registration is now open.
Translators, Meet Python: Most Popular Programming Language for Student Linguists
Students of linguistics will likely run into Python, the most popular programming language for learning translation technology today given its user-friendliness and ubiquity.
Phrase Launches Sponsored Programs for Universities and Advanced Users
The two new programs from Phrase aim to make software localization technology accessible and give users the opportunity to prove their skills.
Yale to Offer Degree in Translation Studies From 2022
Ivy League university, Yale, to launch Translation Studies program. Courses open to all students, regardless of major, beginning spring 2022.
Can You Translate ‘Uncatalogued Ephemera’? Winners of 14th Juvenes Translatores Named
European Commission names 27 winners of Juvenes Translatores 2020–2021, who worked on translating ‘eyelids drooping,’ ‘scraped together,’ and other challenging bits from a diary entry from the future.
MIT Tackles the Ultimate Low-Resource Machine Translation Challenge
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) derives algorithm to handle lack of training data, making it easier to adopt current machine translation methods.
New Research: Do Translation Equivalents Really Mean the Same Thing?
Group led by Princeton Computer Scientist runs large-scale analysis in 41 languages across 10 language families to determine semantic alignment between languages.
And the Winner Is…ACL 2020 Announces Best Paper Awards
Association for Computational Linguistics names Best Research Papers of 2020 from a field of more than 3,000 submissions; paper that argues for retiring BLEU is runner-up.
‘Translation Opens the Door to Various Worlds’ — Winners of 13th Juvenes Translatores Announced
European Commission announces 28 winners of 2019–2020 edition of annual competition that draws the best young translators from all over the EU.
The Winning Papers from the World’s Largest Natural Language Processing Conference
The world’s largest NLP conference, EMNLP, announces the winners of the 2019 awards for Best Paper, Best Paper Runner-Up, Best Demo Paper and Best Resource Paper.
Researchers Propose New Way to Detect Machine Translation — Maybe Google Could Use It
Google has admitted machine translated content is a challenge to ranking algorithms. Researchers at the University of Tokyo may have found a solution: back-translation.
What Makes a Good Post-Editor: Research Examines Activity Patterns of over 300 Linguists
Characterizing post-editors based on their keystrokes, mouse activity, and other editing actions can help predict speed and, eventually, quality, says a new paper by Unbabel researchers.
‘So many things you can’t just translate’ — the EU’s Young Translators Come Together
Far corners of European Union reduced to one spot in Brussels as 28 young translators receive their prizes in 12th Juvenes Translatores awarding rites.
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