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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Slator Pro Guide: Finding Growth in Adjacent Services
Pro Guide for LSPs to identify growth opportunities in adjacent services. Profiles 15 adjacent services, analyzing barriers to entry, risks, and synergies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Language Industry Quotes of the Year 2016
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.
Inside eBay’s Translation Machine
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.
Machine Translation Caught Up in Amazon’s AI Hiring Spree
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.
Rebuilding after Ebay Deal: AppTek Hires new CEO
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.
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