Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker November 2020
In the November 2020 edition of our buyer tracker, we provide SlatorPro subscribers with a selection of some of the most important changes among buy-side decision-makers. Continue reading
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Facebook Says This Is the Culmination of Years of Work in Machine Translation
The new machine translation model, trained on 2,200 language directions, builds on Facebook’s past research on parallel sentences not aligned with English. Continue reading
US, China, Big Tech, and What’s New in Machine Translation Research
US and Chinese tech giants continue to churn out research on speech-to-text translation, machine translation for rare languages, and more. Time to check in. Continue reading
Shares in Language Service Provider Ai-Media Rise After IPO
Shares in translation, transcription, captioning, and subtitling provider Ai-Media open strong after Sydney IPO, boosting company’s market cap to nearly AUD 200m. Continue reading
Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker September 2020
In the September 2020 edition of our buyer tracker, we provide SlatorPro subscribers with a selection of some of the most important changes among buy-side decision-makers. Continue reading
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Facebook Ramps Up Open Source Drive Into Speech Translation
Facebook AI invites developers to improve a speech translation dataset and a open sources a toolkit that evaluates simultaneous speech and text translation. Continue reading
Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker August 2020
In the August 2020 edition of our buyer tracker, we provide SlatorPro subscribers with a selection of some of the most important changes among buy-side decision-makers. Continue reading
Facebook Researchers Say Machine Translation Quality Estimation Lacking
New research suggests biases of QE datasets lead to guesstimates on machine translation quality. Researchers propose modified dataset, debut it at WMT 2020. Continue reading
Thai Mistranslation Shows Risk of Auto-Translating Social Media Content
Facebook deactivates auto-translate in Thailand after translation of post about King’s birthday angers Thai people; police collects evidence, investigates those who shared Facebook post. Continue reading
TWB, Big Tech, Academia Take on Covid-19 Language Challenge
Collaboration between Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc., and Translators Without Borders aims to fight Covid-19 infodemic through machine translation research. Continue reading
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Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker May 2020
In this eighth 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. Continue reading
How Facebook Scaled Terminology Management
Facebook’s Head of Terminology, GBM explains how terminology management improves the consistency and quality of translated content at the social media giant. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Reader Polls: Linguist Strike, Scams, Freelancers vs. Employees, Preferred Social Network
Preferred social networks for industry insights? Increase in translator scams? Industry reliance on freelancing versus in-house employment? Support for Dutch linguists on strike? Continue reading
A Warning About Data Annotation as a Business From a Man Who Sells AI to AI Firms
Acrolinx Founder Andrew Bredenkamp walked SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 attendees through AI’s current challenges and his predictions for the next three years. Continue reading
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