Iconic were jointly nominated with Dublin City University (DCU) in the Licence2Market Impact Award based on the market success of Iconic’s leading-edge translation software incorporating underlying machine learning (domain adaptation) technology licensed from DCU. Continue reading
From technology, markets, and M&A to investment and the competitive landscape, the language industry leaders we interviewed in 2017 commented on a wide range of issues – here are our top picks. Continue reading
Iconic Translation Machines (Iconic) today announced the release of its new translation software plug-in for Relativity, the e-discovery platform Continue reading
Go Transportation & Translation has a new COO and Wordbee, a new Sales Director for North America. Iconic Translation Machines adds three technical experts to its team, while Donnelley Language Solutions appoints a new sales manager for life sciences. Continue reading
Servers in Iceland. A million words per second. Record BLEU scores. The founders of Linguee launch their neural machine translator DeepL with bold claims. Experts agree that DeepL will challenge other MT players but call the output far from revolutionary. Continue reading
Google publishes a tutorial on how to build a neural machine translation model from scratch in a push to accelerate adoption of its machine learning framework Tensorflow. Experts call the announcement important, but say production deployment requires much more than a tutorial. Continue reading
SlatorCon London was attended by over 60 senior language industry executives. We took the opportunity to talk about translation productivity with Lilt’s Spence Green, neural MT with Iconic’s John Tinsley of Iconic, and language industry M&A with Simon Baertl from William Blair & Company. Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg looks forward to “making universal translation a reality” by open sourcing a new approach to neural machine translation. NMT expert impressed by faster training times of the new models but cautions against inflated quality expectations. Continue reading
Unbabel has a new VP of Engineering, Iconic hires a new Machine Translation Scientist, XTRF and Intonation name new Business Development Managers, and Literra appoints a new Sales Director. Continue reading
Iconic Translation Machines announces the release of its proprietary translation software application for eDiscovery. Continue reading
SDL names an Oracle veteran to head customer support, LanguageWire and Jensen Localization appoint new business development managers, and Iconic hires three language technology scientists. Continue reading
Iconic Translation Machines announces a strategic collaboration on NMT with the world-leading machine translation group at the ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland. Continue reading
After years of third parties mining its data, the UN publishes a vast corpus of its documents from the past 25 years for its six official languages. Experts talk to Slator about what the 2016 UN Parallel Corpus means for an industry starving for high quality text data. Continue reading
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