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. Continue reading
Researchers led by machine translation pioneer Philipp Koehn examine how interactive translation prediction compares to MT post-editing when powered by neural instead of statistical MT. Continue reading
Long the domain of academia, fundamental research in machine translation has become a battleground for big tech and niche providers. Continue reading
Appen pays up to USD 300m for automated data annotation platform Figure Eight, preempting an emerging threat to its crowd-based business model. Continue reading
Language industry startups Unbabel and Lilt took to the stage at one of Europe’s largest machine learning conferences and explained how they build atop evermore sophisticated AI tech. Continue reading
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in July 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, slipped below the baseline for the first... Continue reading
Lionbridge acquires former crowdsourcing translation startup Gengo in bid to boost AI training data and services business. Continue reading
Download Slator’s 2018 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report — an in-depth summary and analysis of the 48 language industry mergers and acquisitions and ten startup funding rounds Slator... Continue reading
Translation technology startup Lilt has hired former Lionbridge Chief Sales Officer Paula Shannon as Advisor. The move follows the company’s decision to begin offering services. Continue reading
From technology, markets, and M&A to investment and the competitive landscape, the language industry leaders we interviewed in 2018 commented on a wide range of issues - here are our top picks. Continue reading
In second bolt-on-acquisition of the year TransPerfect buys Berlin-based Mobile App and Gaming Localizer Applanga. CEO Phil Shawe says M&A efforts are now in full swing. Continue reading
Language technology startup Lilt has introduced a new “human-in-the-loop” model, providing language services to their end-customers, but still rejects the LSP label. Continue reading
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in August 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, dipped slightly to 100.85 in November 2018... Continue reading
Language technology startup Qordoba raised USD 11.5m in a series B funding round focused company’s text intelligence and strings products as opposed to its localization product. Continue reading
Translation productivity startup Lilt raises USD 9.5m in a series A funding round from Silicon Valley heavyweight Sequoia Capital as neural machine translation puts language industry back on VC radar. Continue reading
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