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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. Continue reading
Early Releases on Apple’s New Arcade Service Bode Well for Game Localizers
Apple’s new streaming platform reflects changes in the gaming industry, and a possible language requirement for game apps may drive game localization demand. Continue reading
Google Resumes Human Transcription of Assistant Audio Content
Google touts new data privacy protections for its transcription programs, which were suspended after a reviewer leaked confidential Dutch audio in July 2019. Continue reading
Apple May Be Stepping Up Its Game in Machine Translation
Leaked documents list additional machine translation capabilities for Siri as part of an upgrade for 2021; tech giant publishes rare neural MT research paper. Continue reading
Slator 2019 Language Industry Market Report
Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more. Continue reading
Video Games Are Moving to a Netflix Model and It Will Impact Localization
With Google Stadia, Microsoft’s xCloud, and Apple Arcade bursting into the cloud-based game streaming scene, how will game localization be affected? Continue reading
How Rapid Growth in 2018 Transformed Media Localization
Media entertainment is a high-growth industry characterised by more content, more language pairs and ever-shorter turn-around times. Find out what’s new in media localization and what’s been... Continue reading
Cloud-Based Dubbing Boosts Media Localizer ZOO Digital in Fiscal H1 2019
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... Continue reading
Here’s What Happened at the World’s Biggest Machine Translation Conference
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... Continue reading
Facebook Watch Launches Globally But Jury Is Still Out on Demand for Localization
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... Continue reading
Middlebury’s New Translation and Interpretation Dean on Educating the Next Generation of Linguists
Professor Laura Burian, the new dean of the Middlebury Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education, says her priority is to adapt the curriculum to prepare... Continue reading
How ZOO Digital Is Making the Most of Media Localization’s Prime Time
ZOO Digital was in the right place at the right time when the streaming revolution hit. CEO Stuart Green addressed participants at SlatorCon London in May 2018 and explained how media... Continue reading
Moravia, Trump Tax Cut, US Dollar in Spotlight as RWS Posts Half-Year Update
In first trading update post Moravia acquisition, RWS says revenues jumped by 82% to GBP 139.6m and pre-tax profit was at least GBP 28.3m. While analysts continue to rate the stock a buy, the... Continue reading
Apple Translator? Apple Internally Beta Tests Expanded Translation Service
Apple has reportedly quietly rolled out a beta test for a browser-based translator that can translate English into 32 other languages. Continue reading
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