Slator’s Most Popular Language Industry Stories of 2019
Mergers and acquisitions helped the biggest LSPs get even bigger; AB5 prompts protests; bankruptcy, layoffs, and a canceled contract; and new standards for interpreters. Continue reading
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Which Engines Work for Me? Machine Translation as a Managed Service at One Hour Translation
At SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019, One Hour Translation’s Yaron Kaufman shared his strategy for showing customers why now is the time to adopt machine translation. Continue reading
Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker December 2019
Third monthly edition of the Slator Buyer Tracker featuring some of the most important changes happening among buy-side decision-makers. Continue reading
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
HackHarvard 2019 Winners Built This Useful Translation App in Just 36 Hours
Four college students harnessed recent Google Cloud releases to build a translation app that works offline and makes forms accessible to users with disabilities. Continue reading
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Researchers Propose New Way to Detect Machine Translation — Maybe Google Could Use It
Google has admitted machine translated content is a challenge to ranking algorithms. Researchers at the University of Tokyo may have found a solution: back-translation. Continue reading
Does Google’s BERT Matter in Machine Translation?
Less than one year after Google open-sourced its much-discussed language model BERT, experts weigh in on its potential uses in neural machine translation. Continue reading
New: Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker October 2019
Introducing the Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker. This new monthly series features key buy-side people moves and helps inform your hiring, strategy, and business development decisions. Continue reading
Slator Job Index Jumps Nearly 1.5 Points in October 2019
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity trends across the global language industry, jumps 1.5 points in October 2019. Continue reading
Google Resumes Human Transcription of Assistant Audio Content
Google touts new data privacy protections for its transcription programs, which were suspended after a reviewer leaked confidential Dutch audio in July 2019. Continue reading
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Google to Shelve Translator Toolkit After Decade of Failing to Gain Traction
Mixed reactions from linguists and industry experts as search giant shelves its in-house translation productivity tool Translator Toolkit, which failed to gain real traction since launching in 2009. Continue reading
German LSP lengoo Raises EUR 6.0m Series A from Redalpine, Angel Investors
Germany-based language service provider lengoo secures EUR 6.0m in Series A funding, targets scale with NMT and post-editing for mature enterprise customers. Continue reading
KPMG Report Examines India’s Online Language and Content Preferences
Failing to distinguish the language preferences of India’s 637 million Internet users would mean missing the opportunity to offer a tailored experience, KPMG report says. Continue reading
What’s so Massive About Google’s Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation?
New research by Google AI explores multilingual NMT on an unprecedented scale. Good for low-resource languages, less so for the rest, results show. Continue reading
Reader Polls: Post-Editing, Interactive Prediction, Translation Devices, and M&A
Slator’s readers give their take on translation devices, per-hour word output for post-edited MT, post-editing versus interactive prediction, and M&A activity in 2019. Continue reading
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