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Industry News • By Rocío Txabarriaga On 7 Mar 2023

Has Inflation Affected Translation Rates?

Testing Microsoft’s AI-fitted Bing, explaining AI-enabled jobs to friends and family, suitability of loc tools to integrate with AI advances, and inflation effect on rates.

Natural Language Processing • By Rocío Txabarriaga On 27 Feb 2023

Microsoft Says Large Language Models Show ‘Competitive Machine Translation Quality’

Researchers at Microsoft conduct experiments comparing large language model GPT to other MT systems. One GPT stands out with high-resource languages. None do with low-resource languages.

Natural Language Processing • By Rocío Txabarriaga On 21 Feb 2023

How Large Language Models Can Get Better at Machine Translation of Rare Words

Meta AI researchers experimented with dictionary data prompting on known LLMs in order to improve MT. Results look promising for rare words and domain transfer.

Deal Wins • By Maria Stasimioti On 7 Feb 2023

European Defense Fund Supports Project for AI-based Language Solutions

European Union supports a project for the development of AI-based language solutions for defense applications to enhance the use of AI in the defense sector.

Deal Wins • By Maria Stasimioti On 27 Jan 2023

EU’s DG CONNECT Awards EUR 8m Contract for Language Data Platform

EU’s DG CONNECT awards a EUR 8m contract to create a platform and marketplace for multilingual language data sharing and exchange.

Podcasts & Videos • By Slator On 25 Jan 2023

LXT’s Phil Hall on the 2023 AI Boom, Covering 750 Languages, and ChatGPT

LXT Chief Growth Officer, Phil Hall, on covering 750 languages, emerging competitors, and why he agrees that data-for-AI companies are the shovel providers in a gold rush.

Features, SlatorCon • By Rocío Txabarriaga On 14 Dec 2022

Smartling’s Bryan Murphy on How Translation Creates Growth as Budgets Become Tight

At SlatorCon Remote December 2022, Bryan Murphy, CEO of Smartling, talks about leveraging AI and automation to drive growth and reduce costs in the event of a recession.

Research & Reports • By Slator On 25 Nov 2022

Slator Pro Guide: Finding Growth in Adjacent Services

25-page Slator Pro Guide: Finding Growth in Adjacent Services for LSPs helps identify new opportunities for growth. Includes analysis of barriers to entry, synergies, and risks.

Industry News • By Rocío Txabarriaga On 14 Nov 2022

Reader Polls: Should Translation Tests Be Multiple Choice?

How LSPs view Google Translation Hub, acceptable format of translation tests, growth expectations in media localization, impact of latest AI developments.

Machine Translation • By Maria Stasimioti On 7 Nov 2022

How Europe’s Second Largest Bank Built Multilingual Machine Translation In-House

BNP Paribas, Europe’s second largest bank, applies domain adaptation for multilingual neural machine translation models — without excessive loss of knowledge across language pairs.

Investment & Funding, Subscriber Content • By Anna Wyndham On 27 Oct 2022

Multilingual AI Writer Jasper Valued at USD 1.5 Billion in Series A

Among the dozens of AI writing tools built on GPT-3 and launched over the past year, Jasper takes the funding crown as it pockets USD 125m in a unicorn-making series A.

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Academia • By Rocío Txabarriaga On 21 Oct 2022