As AI is booming, the world’s largest natural language processing conference doubled in size this year and attracted 2,500 researchers. Global tech companies came looking for fresh talent. And research teams from across the globe battled it out on shared machine translation tasks. Continue reading
The readers have spoken on topics ranging from governments supporting linguist training and education, post-editing machine translation, current demand for Asian languages, and the 2019 outlook Continue reading
What’s behind the arcane research paper that Baidu helped spin into a machine translation breakthrough celebrated across the media? Continue reading
Shares in newly listed Straker Translations rise 13% from offer price in first week of trading after IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange, valuing the company at USD 62 million. Continue reading
An inaugural survey from the Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters revealed average rates for translators and interpreters in Belgium for agencies and direct clients, as well as language combinations, specializations, satisfaction rates, and technology use. Continue reading
AI-focused text analytics company Expert System posts 52% revenue growth for the first half 2018, as total sales reach EUR 12.9m, driven by recurring licenses and foreign sales. Continue reading
Executives from Wordbee, GoPro, and Tencent discussed a number of key issues at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 during the Technology Panel, and one takeaway was the limitations of neural machine translation. Continue reading
memoQ CEO Norbert Oroszi reflects on augmented translation and how human engagement, training and personalization will shape the future of translation technology. Continue reading
Language service provider RWS tells investors at capital markets event about how it is integrating Moravia and informs about the results of a pilot project to deploy MT post-editing in production in its patent translation division. Continue reading
The drivers of growth in Asia’s language industry came into focus as Slator hosted its inaugural SlatorMeet in Hong Kong on October 11th, 2018. Continue reading
Memsource has released a second AI-powered feature, Machine Translation Quality Estimation (MTQE). With MTQE, machine translation (MT) quality scores are available in the Memsource Editors before any post-editing is done. This can increase post-editing efficiency, helping linguists to manage and prioritize lower quality… Continue reading
As language data becomes increasingly prominent in the age of neural networks and machine learning, a number of use cases highlight the need for high quality training data, such as South Korea’s KT GiGA Genie. Continue reading
Anna Schlegel, Head of Globalization at cloud storage company NetApp, spoke at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 about raising the profile of localization in the company and how the team used champions across the business to create 17 globalized products and 13 globalized departments. Continue reading
Seven winners scoop USD 7,500 each as Senior Minister announces first ever grant under the Translation Talent Development Scheme and stresses the role of machine translation in augmenting, not replacing human translators. Continue reading
Ferose V R, Head of Globalization at SAP, on the challenges and opportunities to be found in multilingual countries and longtail languages, and why translation has a bright future in AI / human interaction. Continue reading
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