The State of Neural Machine Translation for Asian Languages
Asian languages present unique challenges for NMT researchers, and a key to unlock emerging economies for providers. How far along is NMT for Asian languages? Continue reading
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Corporates Going All in on Neural Machine Translation Research
Long the domain of academia, fundamental research in machine translation has become a battleground for big tech and niche providers. Continue reading
Slator 2019 Neural Machine Translation Report—Deploying NMT in Operations
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... Continue reading
Is Machine Translation Essential to U.S. National Security?
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... 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
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The Art of Hyping Machine Translation
What’s behind the arcane research paper that Baidu helped spin into a machine translation breakthrough celebrated across the media? Continue reading
Google, Microsoft, Baidu Step Up NMT Research in Record August as BLEU Takes Heat
August 2018 became the busiest month ever for neural machine translation research as more papers call for improved evaluation methods and big tech companies step up the number of submissions. Continue reading
TransPerfect Buys TranslateNow as Sales Surge 21% in First 5 Months
TransPerfect buys San Francisco-based TranslateNow in first acquisition since legal battle ended. Sales up 21% to USD 275m in first five months of 2018 as execs who had left in protest over... Continue reading
What’s up with All Those Translation Earpieces?
While consumers want earphones that can translate, according to a recent poll of Ericsson Consumer Lab, all and any device that was launched in 2017 was roundly panned by critics. Continue reading
Salesforce Joins Neural Machine Translation Race
Salesforce launches its own neural machine translation model at Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The model has not been productized yet but AI unit head hints at deployment in 2018. Continue reading
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Asia’s Race to Productize Translation for the Consumer Market
The pace of translation product launches targeting the mass consumer market is accelerating in Asia. Earpieces, apps, and handheld devices are sold across potentially vast markets like China,... Continue reading
Amazon Plans to Take On Google Translate, Media Reports
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... Continue reading
Baidu Sells Human Translations at Rock-Bottom Rates to Gain Edge in AI
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... Continue reading
Baidu Says They Were First in NMT: Language Industry News Roundup
Baidu Chief Scientist says they pioneered neural machine translation. A few months into its MoJ contract, the thebigword already responds to bad press. Keywords Studios acquires Spanish game... Continue reading
How Big Tech Is Using Machine Translation as an AI Proxy
Microsoft translates all of Wikipedia’s English pages in under a tenth of a second. Baidu rolls out open source, deep learning yardstick. Nvidia wants to power AI; and Amazon and Samsung update... Continue reading
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