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Investment & Funding • By Maria Stasimioti On 20 Feb 2023

EU Issues EUR 20m RFP for Large Language Models that ‘Respect European Values’

The EU Commission announced a EUR 20m tender for the development of advanced language technologies focused on natural language understanding and interaction.

Machine Translation • By Maria Stasimioti On 16 Jan 2023

A Realistic Dataset for Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation by Amazon

Amazon releases MT-GenEval, a realistic dataset for evaluating gender bias in machine translation, to better understand how MT models perform on gender translation accuracy.

Machine Translation • By Michal Měchura On 27 May 2022

What You Need to Know About Bias in Machine Translation

As machine translation gets better, the problem of bias — especially gender bias — remains a source of embarrassment for the industry. Why MT bias matters and how major players are trying to fix it.

Technology • By Christy Whyte On 18 May 2022

ICYMI: Meta Already Has Download-on-Demand Translation for Android and iOS

Among the many things cooking at Meta: downloadable language packs for Android and iOS users to enjoy download-on-demand translation.

Machine Translation • By Marion Marking On 5 Jul 2021

Google Translate Still Shows Gender Bias. Here’s What Google Is Doing About It.

Google publishes translation dataset of biographies from Wikipedia in hopes of reducing gender bias in Google Translate output.

Sponsored Content • By Intento On 30 Nov 2020

Dodging AI Biases in Machine Translation

Machine translation company Intento uses metadata and MT-agnostic natural language processing to dodge AI biases around gender and tone of voice.

Machine Translation • By Esther Bond On 3 Jun 2020

Researchers Explore Surprising Behavior of Machine Translation

Researchers investigate the unexpected behavior of NMT and find surprising differences in the translations of extremely similar sentences.

Machine Translation • By Esther Bond On 29 Apr 2020

Google Fixes Gender Bias in Google Translate (Again)

Google Translate unveils a new approach to solving gender bias in machine translation, after its “99% reliable” 2018 model encountered problems and failed to scale.

Machine Translation • By Esther Bond On 16 Apr 2020

Cambridge Researchers Tackle Neural Machine Translation’s Gender Bias

A research paper published in April 2020 explores how to reduce gender bias in neural machine translation (NMT) using transfer learning and fine-tuning.

Machine Translation • By Gino Diño On 22 Jan 2019

He Said, She Said: Addressing Gender in Neural Machine Translation

Google is concerned it might be mistakenly assuming genders in machine translation; initial effort to reduce gender bias only the first step in dealing with similar challenges in neural machine translation.

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