Venga Global Expands Data Annotation, Collection, and Validation for AI and Machine Learning Services
Venga AI powers NLP AI and machine learning through human-assisted multilingual data collection Continue reading
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Pangeanic: Over 10Bn Alignments for Machine Learning in 84 Languages
Pangeanic's milestone boosts its research and development capabilities for machine translation and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies. Continue reading
A Warning About Data Annotation as a Business From a Man Who Sells AI to AI Firms
Acrolinx Founder Andrew Bredenkamp walked SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 attendees through AI’s current challenges and his predictions for the next three years. Continue reading
Fresh Off BTI Merger, IYUNO Media Group Hires Allan Dembry as CTO
New IYUNO CTO Allan Dembry outlines his plans; while CEO Shaun Gregory shares how they recruited Dembry and why he sees a future of fewer but bigger players in media localization. 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
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NVIDIA Engineer on Machine Translation Research’s State-of-the Art and Future Direction
NVIDIA Senior Deep Learning Engineer Chip Huyen details progress on MT challenges, including data requirements, sentence-length limitations, and imperfect quality evaluation techniques. Continue reading
Japanese Government Eyes USD 19m for Automated Simultaneous Interpretation by 2025
Ministry seeks JPY 2bn (USD 19m) in 2020 budget for AI-powered simultaneous interpretation by 2025 World Expo; 2020 Tokyo Olympics chief interpreter discusses progress in interpreting technology. Continue reading
Appen Revenues Rise 60% to USD 165m in H1 2019
Machine learning training data provider Appen posts strong revenue and profit growth for H1 2019. Early integration of acquired data annotation platform Figure Eight proves tricky. Continue reading
Facebook Patents Alternative to ‘Expensive’ BLEU
Facebook has been granted a patent for its machine translation quality evaluation system, which relies on user engagement data to decide which translation users prefer. Continue reading
Lingua Custodia Raises USD 1.3m Ahead of Luxembourg Launch
Financial machine translation company Lingua Custodia raises USD 1.3m with help of angel investor platform; plans to open new office in European fund hub Luxembourg. Continue reading
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Multilingual Chatbots: The Conversation Has Yet to Get Longer
Virtual assistants are already part of the e-commerce setting, but taking them multilingual and training them for conversations with multiple variables still poses challenges. Continue reading
New Language Industry IPO as Korea’s Flitto Prepares for Scalability-Based Listing
First, Appen. Now, Flitto. Language data startup Flitto, which is about to list on Korean electronic trading platform Kosdaq, has attracted high, early demand for shares. 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
Inside Google’s Custom Neural Machine Translation—AutoML Translate
Francesco Bombassei, Senior Technical Program Manager at Google, presented at SlatorCon and discussed AutoML Translate, how ever accelerating computing power impacts development, and the human... Continue reading
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