EU Literary Translators Still Waiting for Change
Literary translators in the EU still not benefitting from Digital Single Market Directive three years after it took effect. CEATL study hones in on key issues.
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More Visibility, Better Recognition Are Key for Translators — EU Council Report
EU Expert Group on Multilingualism and Translation recommends improving work conditions, pay, and professional development for translators in the creative and cultural sectors.
EU Earmarks Additional Millions To Automate Translation
Before awarding nearly USD 5m in grants toward the end of February 2019, the EU opened up another one worth almost USD 4.5m.
EU Researchers Want A Billion Euros for ‘The Human Language Project’
With the ambitious goal of achieving natural language understanding by 2030, research institutions in Europe led by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence are pushing for the Human Language Project to become an EUR 1bn EU Flagship Project.
EU Spends Another EUR 2.4m on Translation Research for Digital Single Market
The European Commission issues EUR 2.4m tender for language technology research. The mandate is to look into how the EU’s proprietary machine translation system can be optimized and how language technology can accelerate EU’s Digital Single Market in ways that go “beyond simple translation.”
Europe Awards EUR 5.8m to Tackle Digital Market’s Language Problem
European Commission awards complex contract to seven European language technology and artificial intelligence organizations. Commission hopes consortiums will help remove the language barrier, which is holding back the EU's much vaunted Digital Single Market.
How Neural Machine Translation Can Unlock Europe’s Digital Single Market
Overcoming the language barrier is one of the most important roadblocks to the creation of a functional Digital Single Market in Europe. Rapid advances in machine translation based on neural networks hold a key to unlocking e-commerce worth tens of billions of euros.
EU to Pay EUR 5.8m for Help in Buying Machine Translation
For its Connecting Europe Facility, EU asks for outside help in acquiring MT tech, building language repository, and buying parallel text corpora; project takes direct aim at EUR 1bn EU translation unit.
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