Key Takeaways from SlatorCon San Francisco 2019
Industry leaders met at a sold out SlatorCon San Francisco to discuss market opportunities, technology, and investment trends, and to network with peers. Continue reading
Tag: Lilt
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
SlatorCon San Francisco 2019: Full Agenda Announced
Over 120 language industry leaders will meet at the language industry’s premier executive forum in San Francisco on September 12. Browse the full agenda now. Continue reading
‘Incredibly Vibrant’ — VCs Excited About Natural Language Processing in 2019
Venture capitalists see opportunity as startups begin to apply breakthroughs in transfer learning and new language models, such as BERT, ELMo, OpenAI's GPT-2, and ULMFiT. Continue reading
Lilt Adds 40th Language
Lilt now supports 40 languages after the addition of Bulgarian and Slovenian. Continue reading
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Slator Job Index Edges Up Again in July 2019
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, climbs anew in July 2019. Continue reading
Lilt Hires Lionbridge Veteran Roberto Sastre in Bid to Expand Enterprise Business
San Francisco-based Lilt continues to execute on its new strategy of selling services into the enterprise, hires Dublin-based Lionbridge veteran Roberto Sastre. 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
Slator 2019 Language Industry Market Report
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 Run User Study on MT Post-Editing’s Most Promising Alternative
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
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Corporates Going All in on Neural Machine Translation Research
Long the domain of academia, fundamental research in machine translation has become a battleground for big tech and niche providers. Continue reading
Appen Spends Big on Data Annotation Platform Figure Eight in Preemptive Move
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
How Language Featured at the 2019 Applied Machine Learning Days
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
Slator Jobs Index Slips Below Baseline in February 2019
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 Gengo to Bolster AI Business
Lionbridge acquires former crowdsourcing translation startup Gengo in bid to boost AI training data and services business. Continue reading
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