Unbabel hires Amazon’s former Machine Translation Group Manager, Alon Lavie, as VP of Language Technologies; Lavie’s former business partner leaves Amazon for Uber. Continue reading
When told that someone wanted to buy her business, AABAM’s founder thought it was a vendor cold call. But AT Language Solutions’ offer was genuine and she ended up selling. Continue reading
Japanese financial printing giant Takara Printing has taken a majority investment in TRANSLASIA to expand into Southeast Asia. Continue reading
Neural machine translation experts weigh in on Google’s open sourcing of Lingvo, a sequence modeling framework built on TensorFlow. Continue reading
A group of translation buyers, all Translation Memory experts, have compiled their own “how-to” guide on Best Practices in Translation Memory Management. Continue reading
The US government is asking for public comment to determine whether a range of “emerging technologies,” including machine translation, are essential to national security and should be subject to... Continue reading
US researchers outline how technology could be used to support the work of simultaneous interpreters. They propose analyzing the linguist’s performance on the fly via real-time quality feedback... Continue reading
Leading Chinese Internet company focuses on online education to tap the monetization potential of their machine translation capabilities. Among the investors is the venture capital arm of... Continue reading
Can machines become as good as humans in natural language? Are CAT tools getting far too complicated? Will users increasingly grow comfortable with sacrificing data privacy for personalized... Continue reading
Machine translation (MT) trumps human translation when it comes to real-time and dynamic content at large scale, and SDL’s new report highlights the five most common use cases driving... Continue reading
After years of third parties mining its data, the UN publishes a vast corpus of its documents from the past 25 years for its six official languages. Experts talk to Slator about what the 2016 UN... Continue reading
Exclusive look behind the scenes at China’s most advanced Natural Language Processing program. What drives the technology that processes 100m daily translation requests and learn why Baidu... Continue reading
Ontario’s Association of Translators and Interpreters seeks to prevent rollout of Canadian machine engine Portage to all government employees, saying launch is contrary to express advice of tool... Continue reading
Google’s Jeff Dean tells MIT Technology Review that they have results “coming down the pipe” in integrating Deep Learning tech into Google Translate. Preliminary research by the tech giant shows... Continue reading
As the world’s largest patent offices pool their vast troves of data under the IP5 initiative, the US Patent Office’s machine-translation-powered search portal gets critical acclaim from lawyers. Continue reading
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