Appen Updates Investors on Productizing Linguistic Expertise
Among the platforms and workflows featured in Appen’s 2022 Investor Technology Day: Ontology Studio, which “productizes core components” of Appen’s “linguistic expertise.”
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What You Need to Know About Bias in Machine Translation
As machine translation gets better, the problem of bias — especially gender bias — remains a source of embarrassment for the industry. Why MT bias matters and how major players are trying to fix it.
Appen Shares Plunge on Disappointing H1 2022 Results and Full-Year Outlook
Appen reports H1 2022 revenues to be down 7% and EBITDA down 69% versus the comparable period last year. CEO of data-for-AI provider blames sector slowdown rather than competition.
Lionbridge AI Buyer, Telus, Abruptly Abandons USD 700m Appen Bid
Australia data annotation provider, Appen, gets buyout offer from Telus, buyer of Lionbridge AI business. In surprising about-face, Canadian call center giant walks away.
Appen Share Prices Tumble After Data-for-AI Leader Releases FY 2021 Results
Record annual revenue of USD 447m unable to offset investor disappointment in ASX-traded company after downgraded EBITDA guidance and plunge in net profit after tax.
Slator Interpreting Services and Technology Report
60-page report on the growth industry of interpreting, featuring analysis by mode, setting, geo, buyers, business use cases, RSI, OPI, VRI. Incl. market size estimate.
For Dataset Creation, Humans Should Evaluate Machine Text — New Research
As more language service providers explore data collection and annotation, a new study shows large language models generate more diverse content, while humans excel at rating it.
Appen Shares Fall 25% After First Half 2021 Results Disappoint Investors
Despite growth in New Markets, AI data leader Appen reports 2% revenue decline in H1 2021, with net profit after tax down 55%, sending the share price down to 2018 levels.
Creative AI Founded to Solve Crowd Management Issues with Data for AI Services
Creative Words announced the founding Creative AI, a new company that offers data collection, annotation, and validation services.
Appen Pivots to Product-Led Strategy; Shares Down 49% Year to Date
AI data leader Appen sees share price drop 11% in May amid continuing retreat from all-time highs of 2020. Company splits reporting into separate Services and Product segments.
Why Data-for-AI Providers Need a Problem-Solving Mindset
Language service providers Venga Global and e2f along with renowned publisher Oxford Languages discuss data-for-AI services, AI use cases, and supplier recruitment challenges.
Appen Shares Tumble After Disappointing Results and 2021 Outlook
While Covid’s impact on clients’ priorities limited Appen’s revenue growth to 12%, the data-for-AI giant hopes new clients and the Chinese market will boost future performance.
6 Structural Reasons Why LSPs Are Set to Win in Data-for-AI Services
Workforce management is essential to an LSP’s core activities of translation and localization and may also be the golden ticket to new revenue streams in data-for-AI services.
Oxford Languages President Casper Grathwohl on Language Data as a Service
Oxford Languages President Casper Grathwohl discusses all things data and AI related, from their business in lexical data to the fast-growing data annotation industry.
Here’s How 6 Major LSP Client Segments Use Data for AI
Data-for-AI services are a new and highly specialized sub-industry of AI. But how exactly are text, image, and speech data used in an LSP’s end-customer segment?
Slator 2021 Data-for-AI Market Report
44-page report on the data-for-AI market, guiding LSPs on how to enter and scale in the fast-growing market of creating, collecting, and annotating data for artificial intelligence applications.
Appen Downgrades Earnings Guidance as Q4 Flouts Tradition
Australia-listed language data provider Appen downgrades FY EBITDA guidance by ca. 16% after disappointing November, California lockdowns, and absence of pre-Christmas spike.
TELUS Execs Reveal Why They Bought Lionbridge AI
Commenting on the acquisition of Lionbridge’s data annotation business, senior executives of telco giant TELUS make the case for why the acquisition was a compelling move.
Summa Linguae Reports Strong Q3 2020 Growth as Data Services Take Off
Language service provider Summa Linguae Technologies grows 114% in Q3 2020, including acquisitions. Data annotation business triples.
Appen Shares Retreat From All-time High on Soft Language Data Business
Data annotation provider Appen posts 25% revenue growth for first half 2020 as Relevance division booms. Weakness in language data business contributes to share price retreat.
Largely Unaffected by Covid, Appen Maintains 2020 Guidance
Australia-listed data annotation provider Appen shares Covid-19 update and guides investors on 2020 profit expectations.
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