Natural Language Processing’s Crazy Busy Start to 2019
As NLP developments march on unabated, recent news reflects the state of research, investor excitement, and production deployment levels for current technologies. Continue reading
Tag: natural language processing
Appen Spends Big on Data Annotation Platform Figure Eight in Preemptive Move
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
Is Google’s New Lingvo Framework a Big Deal for Machine Translation?
Neural machine translation experts weigh in on Google’s open sourcing of Lingvo, a sequence modeling framework built on TensorFlow. Continue reading
Appen Is Now Valued at USD 1.75 Billion as Investors Cheer 2018 Results
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
How Language Featured at the 2019 Applied Machine Learning Days
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
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China’s Sogou Pins Hopes on ‘Language-centric AI’
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
Found in Swahili: 37 Teams Compete to Help US Intelligence Agency Query the World
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
Is Machine Translation Essential to U.S. National Security?
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
Carnegie Mellon, Leader in Machine Translation, Launches MA Program in (Human) Translation
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
Here’s What Happened at the World’s Biggest Machine Translation Conference
As AI is booming, the world’s largest natural language processing conference doubled in size this year and attracted 2,500 researchers. Global tech companies came looking for fresh talent. And... Continue reading
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