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
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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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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
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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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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
App Localization Startup Lang Among Y Combinator’s 2019 Summer Batch
With its MT and post-editing toolkit for developers, web and app localization startup Lang gets USD 150,000 in initial funding from business incubator Y Combinator. Continue reading
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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