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
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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
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
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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
Are We Hiring for What’s Coming? Quora’s Lupe Gervas on Localization’s Talent Challenge
We are going to have to attract and retain amazing talent to future proof the language industry’s workforce. Quora’s Lupe Gervas on how to take risks in hiring for localization teams able to... Continue reading
Google, Microsoft, Baidu Step Up NMT Research in Record August as BLEU Takes Heat
August 2018 became the busiest month ever for neural machine translation research as more papers call for improved evaluation methods and big tech companies step up the number of submissions. Continue reading
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Facebook Watch Launches Globally But Jury Is Still Out on Demand for Localization
Facebook’s video-on-demand service, Facebook Watch, is now available to users worldwide, one year after it launched in the US, as the social media tech giant ramps up video content capabilities... Continue reading
Neural Machine Translation Research Output Ballooned in the First Half of 2018
Research submissions on neural machine translations ballooned from 91 in the first half of 2017 to 196 in the first half of 2018, although by July 2018 submissions were slowing down. Continue reading
Where Is the Billion Dollar Language Service Provider?
The language industry is huge, worth around USD 40bn per year. Yet, unlike other industries of this size, there is no one single provider generating a billion US-Dollars in revenue. Here’s how it... Continue reading
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... Continue reading
‘In Burmese It’s Just Not as Good’ – Facebook’s Language Tech Challenge
As Facebook faces fundamental questions about its business model, understanding what content is being shared on the platform has become a top priority. With more than 2 billion monthly active... Continue reading
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