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Technology • By Seyma Albarino On 4 Jan 2023

Research on Speech-to-Speech Translation is Booming

In just three months, universities and tech companies released over two dozen papers on speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), highlighting continuing trends, new directions in research.

Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 14 Jan 2021

Focusing on BLEU Can Bias Machine Translation Output

Though beam search can boost BLEU scores, it can also lead to high rates of misgendered pronouns, even when translating between two gendered languages.

Machine Translation • By Marion Marking On 7 Jul 2020

TWB, Big Tech, Academia Take on Covid-19 Language Challenge

Collaboration between Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc., and Translators Without Borders aims to fight Covid-19 infodemic through machine translation research.

Machine Translation • By Marion Marking On 26 Mar 2020

How to Fix the 5 Flaws in Evaluating Machine Translation

Group of leading researchers finds that the way machine translation quality is evaluated by humans is broken. Group issues five recommendations on how to fix it.

Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 17 Oct 2019

Does Google’s BERT Matter in Machine Translation?

Less than one year after Google open-sourced its much-discussed language model BERT, experts weigh in on its potential uses in neural machine translation.

Machine Translation • By Esther Bond On 18 Jul 2019

What’s so Massive About Google’s Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation?

New research by Google AI explores multilingual NMT on an unprecedented scale. Good for low-resource languages, less so for the rest, results show.

Research & Reports • By Slator On 15 May 2019

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.

People Moves • By Marion Marking On 18 Apr 2019

Alon Lavie Joins Unbabel — He’s Not the Only Exec Who Recently Left Amazon’s Machine Translation Group

Unbabel hires Amazon’s former Machine Translation Group Manager, Alon Lavie, as VP of Language Technologies; Lavie’s former business partner leaves Amazon for Uber.

Academia • By Esther Bond On 16 May 2018

Simultaneous Interpreters May Soon Get Real-Time Help Just When They Need It

US researchers outline how technology could be used to support the work of simultaneous interpreters. They propose analyzing the linguist’s performance on the fly via real-time quality feedback loop and offer help only when the interpreter is struggling.

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