Flitto provides multilingual corpus, speech, and image data to train AI engines in 25 different languages, covering a number of domains including conversational, colloquial, and medical. Continue reading
AI21 Labs, maker of Wordtune, raises USD 25m in funding. Brings total funds raised to USD 34.5m, after previous 2019 seed round. Both rounds led by Israel-based VC, Pitango First. Continue reading
“Inter-Language Vector Space is a revolutionary approach to L10N AI, on par with Neural MT.” Continue reading
Language services provider to the US government SOS International (SOSi) acquires minority stake in machine translation and speech recognition provider AppTek. Continue reading
Over 60 contributors in 15 African countries are gathering data and developing machine translation models to translate the Internet into indigenous languages. Continue reading
Michal Antczak, Head of Localization Technology at PayPal, urges SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 attendees to think beyond standard pitches and customize solutions for end users. Continue reading
Acrolinx Founder Andrew Bredenkamp walked SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 attendees through AI’s current challenges and his predictions for the next three years. Continue reading
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
Industry leaders met at a sold out SlatorCon San Francisco to discuss market opportunities, technology, and investment trends, and to network with peers. Continue reading
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
AI support services startup Scale AI uses a combination of crowd and automation to label data incl. NLP, putting it in direct competition with Appen and Lionbridge. Continue reading
Over 120 language industry leaders will meet at the language industry’s premier executive forum in San Francisco on September 12. Browse the full agenda now. Continue reading
Jakarta-based natural language processing startup Halosis raises USD 1.2m angel investment to scale Bahasa Indonesia and local dialect chatbot tech. Continue reading
Interview with new DeepL CEO Jaroslaw Kutylowski about Europe focus, customer service, and the role of professional translators as machine translation improves. Continue reading
New research by Google AI explores multilingual NMT on an unprecedented scale. Good for low-resource languages, less so for the rest, results show. Continue reading
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