Facebook Patents Alternative to ‘Expensive’ BLEU
Facebook has been granted a patent for its machine translation quality evaluation system, which relies on user engagement data to decide which translation users prefer. Continue reading
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‘Incredibly Vibrant’ — VCs Excited About Natural Language Processing in 2019
Venture capitalists see opportunity as startups begin to apply breakthroughs in transfer learning and new language models, such as BERT, ELMo, OpenAI's GPT-2, and ULMFiT. Continue reading
Facebook RFP Asks Academia for Harmful Language Datasets and Benchmarks
Facebook is offering USD 10,000 to USD 50,000 grants to universities to build open source datasets and evaluation platforms to help fight harmful content online. Continue reading
As Neural Machine Translation’s Core Model Seems Settled, Focus Shifts to Products
At SlatorCon London 2019, Systran CEO Jean Senellart outlined the latest in NMT developments, called out some myths from vendors, and pointed out what’s missing from the industry. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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Inside Translation, Localization, and NLP on GitHub, the World’s #1 Code Sharing Site
Over two dozen charts and tables and high-level visualizations as well as analysis of GitHub code repositories relevant to the language industry. Continue reading
At F8: Facebook Says It Now Has a ‘Powerful Tool to Think About Language Problems in a Language Agnostic Way’
Natural language processing and neural MT feature heavily as Facebook discusses developments in artificial intelligence at their developer conference F8 2019. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Slator Buy-Side Report 2018: Actionable Insights From the Language Industry Buy-Side
Features 23 buyer profiles along industry verticals including buyer name, translation volume and / or spend (where available), technology used, sourcing approach, other key insights. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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Ubiqus Tucks in Gedev to Expand in Aerospace and Defense
France-based language service provider Ubiqus has acquired boutique local rival Gedev, a specialist in aerospace and defense translation. Continue reading
How Ubiqus Deploys Neural Machine Translation in Language Operations
Ubiqus CEO Vincent Nguyen walked SlatorCon participants through Ubiqus’ one-and-a-half year journey towards implementing neural machine translation in production and how they are encouraging... Continue reading
Slator 2019 Neural Machine Translation Report—Deploying NMT in Operations
Through five case studies and nearly 30 commentaries from the buy (enterprise, government, and more)- and sell-side (LSPs), this report shines a light on the sentiment of industry practitioners... Continue reading
Is Machine Translation Essential to U.S. National Security?
The US government is asking for public comment to determine whether a range of “emerging technologies,” including machine translation, are essential to national security and should be subject to... Continue reading
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... Continue reading
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