Language data and search engine training company Appen delivers triple digit revenue growth on the back of Leapforce acquisition and strong organic performance. AI boom drives shares to all-time high. Continue reading
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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
Conference and training attracts delegates from all over the world to hear how AI and machine learning can transform the industry, from translations to managing regulatory requirements Continue reading
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Facebook is open sourcing its unified deep learning framework PyTorch 1.0, the underlying technology that supports AI and many of its products including Translate. Continue reading
Appen delivers yet another stellar year with strong revenue and profit growth, lower expense ratio, and improved operating margins. Recent acquisitions appear to work well. Strong performance lifts Appen’s market cap to above AUD 1bn Continue reading
Can machines become as good as humans in natural language? Are CAT tools getting far too complicated? Will users increasingly grow comfortable with sacrificing data privacy for personalized digital comfort? These issues are examined with bold quotes and predictions from the memoQ Trend Report 2018. Continue reading
China issued a 3-year action plan to boost AI development for implementation across the whole country. It sets out quantified targets for eight commercial applications of AI, including speech recognition and machine translation, which it wants to achieve by 2020. Continue reading
Memsource will release the first feature powered by newly developed artificial intelligence technology. The AI-powered Non-translatables feature will be available as an option in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of the translation management system on January 16, 2018, and in all paid editions in the following weeks. Continue reading
CNBC reports that Amazon is looking to offer the translation technology it built for internal use to third parties. The move would be a direct challenge to Google Translate and the many other MT offerings by big tech companies. Continue reading
Deloitte homes in on translation in report about how US government can leverage artificial intelligence to cut costs. Consulting firm proposes AI-augmented approach, which leaves the translator in control of the creative process and responsible for aesthetic judgments. Continue reading
As language translation emerges as a yardstick for progress in artificial intelligence, high quality human translation data becomes a prized asset. The race for AI leadership sees Baidu host translation marathons across China to fill its data trove. Continue reading
Committee advising US President on science and tech policy formulation and budget development publishes report on the impact of rapid progress in artificial intelligence. Paper classifies translation under Narrow AI and calls progress in the area remarkable. Continue reading
In America, homebuyers got news on the free translation services they hoped for; US-listed oil firms have to file another annual report detailing payments to governments and translate related documents. European publishers unite to run translation, and MIT says understanding language remains AI’s big prize. Continue reading
Italy’s semantic analysis firm Expert System reports EUR 30m in revenues for 2015. CEO discusses how the natural language processing hype helps his company and says machine translation is “the toughest thing you can do.” Continue reading
Exclusive look behind the scenes at China’s most advanced Natural Language Processing program. What drives the technology that processes 100m daily translation requests and learn why Baidu predicts a machine translation breakthrough within the next 5 years. Continue reading
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