A group of translation buyers, all Translation Memory experts, have compiled their own “how-to” guide on Best Practices in Translation Memory Management. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
A carefully curated selection of 2016’s most salient quotes. We have the CEOs of Lionbridge, TransPerfect, Welocalize, and SDL. The buy-side with PayPal, Nielsen, Swiss Post, and major law firms. And technology from Google, Facebook, Baidu, WIPO, and much more. Continue reading
800 million listings with an average of 300 words each and a shelf life ranging from weeks to days. eBay’s translation effort is a carefully calibrated mix of data science, linguistic expertise and constant training and tweaking. Continue reading
Amazon’s poaching of an eBay executive and holder of machine translation patents is a clear sign of the rapid build-out of its artificial intelligence capabilities. Machine translation engineering talent is the target of aggressive hiring drive. Continue reading
AppTek, which in 2014 sold a significant part of its machine translation assets to Ebay, is rebuilding its business and hires media business development veteran Adam Sutherland as new CEO. Continue reading
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