Translation productivity startup Lilt adds tech industry veteran and Sequoia Capital Partner Bill Coughran to its board of directors and steps up hiring. Continue reading
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Police arrest man for possession of 14 pounds of illegal drugs, but the case does not hold up in court because Google Translate was used to ask the defendant for permission to search his vehicle. Continue reading
Some familiar names helped pushed May 2018 to the top of the charts in terms of neural machine translation research. Meanwhile, the hottest research trends appear to be the race to better quality and translating low-resource, non-Latin languages. Continue reading
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As Facebook faces fundamental questions about its business model, understanding what content is being shared on the platform has become a top priority. With more than 2 billion monthly active users, language tech will play the decisive role. Continue reading
Research into neural machine translation in 2018 is exploding, with April 2018 being the busiest month ever for NMT, as Big Tech companies from Google to Facebook to Amazon go full throttle on multiple areas of research. Continue reading
Replacing current automatic quality scores is essential to advance the use and performance of NMT systems. A new, human quality index can dramatically improve NMT performance and adoption. Continue reading
What can secure machine translation do for a USD 10 billion a year technology giant? SDL’s MT solutions delivered exceptional security, reduced costs and consistently accurate translation. Continue reading
Professor Andy Way, Deputy Director of ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, unpacks quality expectations for machine translation as the language industry increasingly favors neural MT as the new standard. Continue reading
Lingo24 saw steady revenue growth in 2017 while losses narrowed. The company expects its proprietary technology will help it to outcompete larger rivals and return it to profitability in 2018. Continue reading
Facebook is inviting the academic community to submit research proposals for a USD 20,000 to USD 40,000, one-year research grant starting June 2018. Facebook research will award up to four research proposals and is open to further research after evaluation. Continue reading
Microsoft did not pull any punches announcing their research findings on new neural machine translation systems that have achieved “human parity” in Chinese to English news translation according to a new human evaluation method they developed. Continue reading
As long as machine translation is fluent, users are more likely to trust its output, regardless if the translation is adequate. This is the implication of a recent study by researchers from the University of Maryland. Continue reading
The white paper provides a comprehensive view on what stages and outcomes the demand-side of the localization industry should expect. Continue reading
Australia’s Fair Work agency suffers backlash after integrating Microsoft Translator into their website to provide translation in 40 languages. Continue reading
As Canada’s Translation Bureau continues discussions with stakeholder groups over various issues, Public Services and Procurement Canada has released a RFI hoping to get feedback from the language industry regarding its procurement processes. Continue reading
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