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
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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
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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
Making do with less training data, infusing models with more document-level context, and increasing efficiency and reducing power consumption have been high on the agenda of neural machine translation researchers over recent months. Continue reading
Most readers think a merger between TransPerfect and Lionbridge would fail, 57% think scams involving machine translation are set to become more prevalent in 2018, and only a few think Unbabel’s funding round means VCs are rediscovering the language industry. Continue reading
China issued a 3-year action plan to boost AI development for implementation across the whole country. It sets out quantified targets for eight commercial applications of AI, including speech recognition and machine translation, which it wants to achieve by 2020. Continue reading
The Translation Centre sees a sustained demand for translation from EU agencies and bodies in 2018. But to deliver three-quarters of a million translated pages per year, it relies on extensive outsourcing and technology. Machine translation not yet integrated into production. Continue reading
Rozetta’s revenue kept pace but profit fell in the first nine months of the financial year. The company’s bet on machine translation is not yet paying off. Continue reading
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