They are young and tech-savvy. Their focus is on speed and automation and see near-term game-changers as being those technologies that deliver both. This is the week in language industry hires at e2f, Conversis, KantanMT, and XTM International.
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.
A carefully curated selection of 2016's most salient quotes. We have the CEOs of Lionbridge, TransPerfect, Welocalize, and SDL. The buy-side with PayPal, Nielsen, Swiss Post, and major law firms. And technology from Google, Facebook, Baidu, WIPO, and much more.
Study of over 500,000 user-generated reviews on TripAdvisor reveals stark contrasts in the relevance of ratings across different languages. French and Spanish agree the most; Chinese and Danish, not so much.
Exclusive look behind the scenes at China’s most advanced Natural Language Processing program. What drives the technology that processes 100m daily translation requests and learn why Baidu predicts a machine translation breakthrough within the next 5 years.
UK-listed video game services provider Keywords Studios grew revenues by 30% in 2019, despite a “relatively light year for video games” ahead of new Xbox and Playstation.
Download the Slator 2019 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report — an in-depth summary and analysis of the 60 language industry M&A and 15 start-up and tech funding rounds.
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, fell for the first time after six consecutive months of growth.
Mergers and acquisitions helped the biggest LSPs get even bigger; AB5 prompts protests; bankruptcy, layoffs, and a canceled contract; and new standards for interpreters.
Game localizer and technical service provider Keywords Studios will spend up to EUR 7m on proprietary machine translation technology in buying Ireland’s KantanMT.
Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more.
KantanMT has announced that it is to release the world’s first Neural Machine Translation (NMT) engine for the language combinations of English<=>Irish (Gaeilge) and Irish<=>English.
This technology has been designed by KantanMT.com and provides a Machine Translation platform for Public Administration bodies within the European Commission.
Wordfast have added a KantanMT tab where the user simply inputs an API key to gain access to KantanMT’s powerful neural machine translation option.
Across Systems GmbH has released version 7 of its translation management software Across Language Server.
KantanMT has announced that its Software Development Kit (SDK) has been enhanced by the addition of a new Asynchronous Interface. This development in the SDK will provide a high speed, high volume asynchronous programme interface in to both Statistical and Neural MT engines.
KantanMT is pleased to announce that it has launched a major new release of its market leading KantanMT platform. This release follows an extensive study of Transformer Neural Networks (TNN); research that clearly demonstrated TNNs produce a notably higher translation quality output than Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
Slator releases the Neural Machine Translation Report 2018. The report delves into the business case for neural machine translation, and answers the most pertinent questions surrounding the new technology with insights and information from 17 industry and academia experts to provide a clearer picture of NMT in 2018.
Across Language Server now seamlessly integrates with KantanNeural, boosting machine translation quality for automated workflows.
KantanMT restructures pricing plan and introduces radical reduction of cost per word for clients.
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