Four college students harnessed recent Google Cloud releases to build a translation app that works offline and makes forms accessible to users with disabilities. Continue reading
As the language industry transitions to an operating model where the first draft is mostly generated by machines, many are looking for ways to quantify linguists' value-add. Edit-distance can help. Continue reading
Google has admitted machine translated content is a challenge to ranking algorithms. Researchers at the University of Tokyo may have found a solution: back-translation. Continue reading
An October 2019 paper by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute examines how China can employ machine translation tools used by consumers to collect data on users outside the country. Continue reading
UN asks vendors to pitch solutions for remote interpreting, neural machine translation, speech-to-text, etc. to secure one of 25 spots at January 2020 conferencing tech fair in Geneva. Continue reading
A practical guide for buyers on how to put neural machine translation’s impressive capabilities to practical use in real-life localization workflows 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
Removes Language Barriers by Enabling Brands to Apply Neural Machine Translation (NMT) to Customer Experience, Analytics, eDiscovery, Internal Communications and More Continue reading
Chinese e-learning provider Youdao files to go public in New York, seeking to raise USD 300m. Youdao’s suite of products centers around online dictionaries and machine translation tools. Continue reading
NVIDIA Senior Deep Learning Engineer Chip Huyen details progress on MT challenges, including data requirements, sentence-length limitations, and imperfect quality evaluation techniques. 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
Leaked documents list additional machine translation capabilities for Siri as part of an upgrade for 2021; tech giant publishes rare neural MT research paper. Continue reading
Germany-based language service provider lengoo secures EUR 6.0m in Series A funding, targets scale with NMT and post-editing for mature enterprise customers. Continue reading
Facebook has been granted a patent for its machine translation quality evaluation system, which relies on user engagement data to decide which translation users prefer. Continue reading
Baidu launches API for speech-to-speech translation based on technology outlined in late-2018 research paper, which was criticized at the time for overpromising. Continue reading
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