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People Moves, Subscriber Content • By Gerard Castañeda On 8 Apr 2020

Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker April 2020

In this seventh monthly edition of our buyer tracker, we provide SlatorPro subscribers an easy-to-use selection of some of the most important changes happening among buy-side decision-makers.

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Mergers & Acquisitions • By Esther Bond On 26 Nov 2019

Machine Translation and ASR Provider AppTek Buys Speech Tech Firm Ignite-Tek

MT and speech recognition company AppTek expands natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities with acquisition of speech technology provider Ignite-Tek.

Academia • By Esther Bond On 18 Nov 2019

The Winning Papers from the World’s Largest Natural Language Processing Conference

The world’s largest NLP conference, EMNLP, announces the winners of the 2019 awards for Best Paper, Best Paper Runner-Up, Best Demo Paper and Best Resource Paper.

Research & Reports • By Slator On 12 Nov 2019

Slator 2019 Travel & Retail Localization Report

In-depth report on localization for the global Travel and Retail sector. Analysis of the competitive landscape, technologies, and actionable insights from major buyers and users.

People Moves, Subscriber Content • By Gerard Castañeda On 16 Oct 2019

New: Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker October 2019

Introducing the Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker. This new monthly series features key buy-side people moves and helps inform your hiring, strategy, and business development decisions.

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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.

Machine Translation • By Gino Diño On 21 Mar 2019

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.

Translation Management Systems • By Esther Bond On 18 Jan 2019

How Buyers Think Translation Memories Should Really Be Managed

A group of translation buyers, all Translation Memory experts, have compiled their own “how-to” guide on Best Practices in Translation Memory Management.

Features • By Esther Bond On 28 Dec 2018

Language Industry Top Quotes of 2018

From technology, markets, and M&A to investment and the competitive landscape, the language industry leaders we interviewed in 2018 commented on a wide range of issues - here are our top picks.

Academia • By Esther Bond On 7 Nov 2018

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 research teams from across the globe battled it out on shared machine translation tasks.

Machine Translation, Subscriber Content • By Esther Bond On 27 Aug 2018

Machine Translation ‘Significantly’ Boosts Trade, Leading US Think Tank Finds

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.

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Academia • By Eden Estopace On 15 Jun 2018

Middlebury’s New Translation and Interpretation Dean on Educating the Next Generation of Linguists

Professor Laura Burian, the new dean of the Middlebury Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education, says her priority is to adapt the curriculum to prepare students to lead in a rapidly evolving language and technology market.

Industry News • By Gino Diño On 10 May 2018

eBay Apologizes Over Webinterpret Localization Glitch

A 30-day promotion between partners eBay and Webinterpret that offered sellers automated localization on their listings has backfired with sellers complaining about being opted in without permission, even calling it an outright scam.

Research & Reports • By Slator On 22 Mar 2018

Slator Neural Machine Translation Report 2018

Slator releases the Neural Machine Translation Report 2018. The report delves into the business case for neural machine translation, and answers the most pertinent questions surrounding the new technology with insights and information from 17 industry and academia experts to provide a clearer picture of NMT in 2018.

Research & Reports • By Slator On 22 Dec 2017

Slator Buy-Side Report 2017

Download Slator's 2017 Buy-Side Report. Structured along industry verticals and featuring 30 buyers in a short profile, the report is a compilation of Slator buyer articles and features information such as buyer name, translation volume and spend, technology, sourcing approach, and other key insights.

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