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 research teams from across the globe battled it out on shared machine translation tasks. Continue reading
What’s behind the arcane research paper that Baidu helped spin into a machine translation breakthrough celebrated across the media? Continue reading
Denmark’s LanguageWire buys Belgian-based Xplanation in deal that creates one of the largest diversified European language service providers. Combined 2018 revenues to come in at nearly USD 70m. Continue reading
Executives from Wordbee, GoPro, and Tencent discussed a number of key issues at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 during the Technology Panel, and one takeaway was the limitations of neural machine translation. Continue reading
memoQ CEO Norbert Oroszi reflects on augmented translation and how human engagement, training and personalization will shape the future of translation technology. Continue reading
Language service provider RWS tells investors at capital markets event about how it is integrating Moravia and informs about the results of a pilot project to deploy MT post-editing in production in its patent translation division. Continue reading
Translation productivity startup Lilt raises USD 9.5m in a series A funding round from Silicon Valley heavyweight Sequoia Capital as neural machine translation puts language industry back on VC radar. Continue reading
As language data becomes increasingly prominent in the age of neural networks and machine learning, a number of use cases highlight the need for high quality training data, such as South Korea’s KT GiGA Genie. Continue reading
Anna Schlegel, Head of Globalization at cloud storage company NetApp, spoke at SlatorCon San Francisco 2018 about raising the profile of localization in the company and how the team used champions across the business to create 17 globalized products and 13 globalized departments. Continue reading
France’s Ubiqus expands its footprint in Canada and buys Montreal-headquartered Textualis. Acquisition diversifies Ubiqus’ client portfolio away from government buyers into the private sector. Continue reading
An interpreter accused multi-billion listed company of passing off human interpretation as the output of its AI translation engine on social media. The post sparked off a media frenzy questioning company’s marketing spin. Continue reading
New Zealand’s Straker Translations is on a roadshow to secure potential institutional investors for an Initial Public Offering on the Australian Stock Exchange next month that would value the USD 17m revenue LSP at a premium USD 57m. Continue reading
Neural machine translation is fluent to the point that Google’s ranking algorithm may rate machine translated content as legitimate content created by humans, hinting at complex implications for search engine optimization and digital marketing. Continue reading
A fluent understanding of NMT—neural fluency—is a must for localization departments who need to constantly do more with less for the globalization efforts of their multinational companies. Continue reading
August 2018 became the busiest month ever for neural machine translation research as more papers call for improved evaluation methods and big tech companies step up the number of submissions. Continue reading
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