The Masakhane Project Puts Africa on the Machine Translation Map
Over 60 contributors in 15 African countries are gathering data and developing machine translation models to translate the Internet into indigenous languages. Continue reading
Tag: natural language processing
To Future-Proof a Language Service Provider, Embrace Data, Tech, and Client Goals
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
A Warning About Data Annotation as a Business From a Man Who Sells AI to AI Firms
Acrolinx Founder Andrew Bredenkamp walked SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 attendees through AI’s current challenges and his predictions for the next three years. Continue reading
Does Google’s BERT Matter in Machine Translation?
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
Key Takeaways from SlatorCon San Francisco 2019
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
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Appen Revenues Rise 60% to USD 165m in H1 2019
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
Appen and Lionbridge Will Have to Compete Against This Latest Unicorn Startup
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
SlatorCon San Francisco 2019: Full Agenda Announced
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
Indonesian NLP Startup Halosis Raises USD 1.2m
Jakarta-based natural language processing startup Halosis raises USD 1.2m angel investment to scale Bahasa Indonesia and local dialect chatbot tech. Continue reading
New DeepL CEO on Customer Service and Human-in-the-Loop Translation
Interview with new DeepL CEO Jaroslaw Kutylowski about Europe focus, customer service, and the role of professional translators as machine translation improves. Continue reading
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What’s so Massive About Google’s Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation?
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
‘Incredibly Vibrant’ — VCs Excited About Natural Language Processing in 2019
Venture capitalists see opportunity as startups begin to apply breakthroughs in transfer learning and new language models, such as BERT, ELMo, OpenAI's GPT-2, and ULMFiT. Continue reading
Multilingual Chatbots: The Conversation Has Yet to Get Longer
Virtual assistants are already part of the e-commerce setting, but taking them multilingual and training them for conversations with multiple variables still poses challenges. Continue reading
SDL Gearing Up for General Release of AI-Packed SDL Language Cloud
Set to go live in September 2019, SDL Language Cloud combines productivity, workbench, and PM features in an end-to-end solution for continuous localization. Continue reading
Facebook RFP Asks Academia for Harmful Language Datasets and Benchmarks
Facebook is offering USD 10,000 to USD 50,000 grants to universities to build open source datasets and evaluation platforms to help fight harmful content online. Continue reading
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