With the ambitious goal of achieving natural language understanding by 2030, research institutions in Europe led by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence are pushing for the Human Language Project to become an EUR 1bn EU Flagship Project.
Europe continues to ramp up research in language technology. The number of papers published on machine translation in an academic journal has reached the highest number in more than a decade.
Google’s live production deployment of neural machine translation sets a milestone for language translation. A dozen of the world’s leading MT experts provide perspective on the roll-out and Google’s Mike Schuster responds to charges of overstating quality improvements.
Overcoming the language barrier is one of the most important roadblocks to the creation of a functional Digital Single Market in Europe. Rapid advances in machine translation based on neural networks hold a key to unlocking e-commerce worth tens of billions of euros.
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