Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more. Continue reading
Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2019 were short on big language tech reveals, although relevant announcements and previews were sprinkled throughout both events. Continue reading
Over two dozen charts and tables and high-level visualizations as well as analysis of GitHub code repositories relevant to the language industry. Continue reading
Natural language processing and neural MT feature heavily as Facebook discusses developments in artificial intelligence at their developer conference F8 2019. Continue reading
Asian languages present unique challenges for NMT researchers, and a key to unlock emerging economies for providers. How far along is NMT for Asian languages? Continue reading
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
As NLP developments march on unabated, recent news reflects the state of research, investor excitement, and production deployment levels for current technologies. Continue reading
Appen pays up to USD 300m for automated data annotation platform Figure Eight, preempting an emerging threat to its crowd-based business model. Continue reading
Neural machine translation experts weigh in on Google’s open sourcing of Lingvo, a sequence modeling framework built on TensorFlow. Continue reading
Australian language data provider and search engine evaluator Appen posts USD 260m in revenues and USD 51m in earnings for full-year 2018. Continue reading
Language industry startups Unbabel and Lilt took to the stage at one of Europe’s largest machine learning conferences and explained how they build atop evermore sophisticated AI tech. Continue reading
Sogou rides AI wave to grow 2018 revenues by 24% to USD 1.12bn, as CEO credits their twin growth engines, Sogou Search and Sogou Mobile Keyboard, which use technologies such as neural machine... Continue reading
US research agency IARPA is conducting an open competition under one of its main programs that challenges participants to build a system where users search audio and text documents in... 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
Top US university Carnegie Mellon, known for its natural language processing and neural machine translation research, has launched a new Master’s program in Global Communication and Applied... Continue reading
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