Through five case studies and nearly 30 commentaries from the buy (enterprise, government, and more)- and sell-side (LSPs), this report shines a light on the sentiment of industry practitioners towards current-state NMT technology. Continue reading
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The US government is asking for public comment to determine whether a range of “emerging technologies,” including machine translation, are essential to national security and should be subject to export controls. Continue reading
Top US university Carnegie Mellon, known for its natural language processing and neural machine translation research, has launched a new Master’s program in Global Communication and Applied Translation, designed to train translators of the future. Continue reading
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Half-year revenues at Media localizer ZOO Digital up 17% driven by adoption of cloud-based dubbing and a sales mix shift to localization. Earnings declined due to heavy investment in order to capture future market share. Continue reading
As AI is booming, the world’s largest natural language processing conference doubled in size this year and attracted 2,500 researchers. Global tech companies came looking for fresh talent. And research teams from across the globe battled it out on shared machine translation tasks. Continue reading
Facebook’s video-on-demand service, Facebook Watch, is now available to users worldwide, one year after it launched in the US, as the social media tech giant ramps up video content capabilities on the platform. Continue reading
Researchers analyzed the impact of introducing a Spanish machine translation system to eBay’s platform and found direct and positive causal links between machine translation adoption and economic activities. Continue reading
Walmart-backed Indian ecommerce giant Flipkart is going head to head with Amazon Alexa with its voice-powered ecommerce interface. Its newest acquisition of speech recognition startup Liv.ai is expected to power a conversational shopping experience in several vernacular Indian languages. Continue reading
Research submissions on neural machine translations ballooned from 91 in the first half of 2017 to 196 in the first half of 2018, although by July 2018 submissions were slowing down. Continue reading
In its last set of results before consolidating Donnelley Language Solutions, SDL posts first half revenues of GBP 143.1m and adjusted EBITA of GBP 12m. CEO Hernandez sees the benefits of transformation finally beginning to make an impact. Continue reading
Google launches a new service called AutoML Translation in beta that lets users upload translated language pairs to train machine translation engines. Continue reading
UK-based language service provider thebigword hits double-digit growth two years running after winning MOJ contract, and appoints industry outsider Nihat Arkan as new CEO. Former CEO Larry Gould to pursue M&A and investment as Executive Chairman of the Board. Continue reading
The language industry is huge, worth around USD 40bn per year. Yet, unlike other industries of this size, there is no one single provider generating a billion US-Dollars in revenue. Here’s how it could be done. Continue reading
Some familiar names helped pushed May 2018 to the top of the charts in terms of neural machine translation research. Meanwhile, the hottest research trends appear to be the race to better quality and translating low-resource, non-Latin languages. Continue reading
Amazon’s third Amazon Research Awards picked 49 out of over 800 submissions and will be awarding research groups up to USD 80,000 each for their projects. Six submissions directly relate to natural language processing or neural machine translation. Continue reading
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