While Covid’s impact on clients’ priorities limited Appen’s revenue growth to 12%, the data-for-AI giant hopes new clients and the Chinese market will boost future performance. Continue reading
Scientists propose new system to standardize automatic evaluation of NLP systems by adding humans in the loop; encourage fellow researchers to submit text generation models for evaluation. Continue reading
Flitto provides multilingual corpus, speech, and image data to train AI engines in 25 different languages, covering a number of domains including conversational, colloquial, and medical. Continue reading
AI21 Labs, maker of Wordtune, raises USD 25m in funding. Brings total funds raised to USD 34.5m, after previous 2019 seed round. Both rounds led by Israel-based VC, Pitango First. Continue reading
Italy-listed natural language processing provider Expert System raises USD 29.4m in share placement; hires two C-level execs to drive Sales and Marketing. Continue reading
Select users test OpenAI’s 175-billion-parameter language model GPT-3 in private beta and light up Twitter with examples of its output. Could it impact the language industry? Continue reading
Chinese speech recognition and AI provider iFlytek signs R&D deal with Egypt’s ICT Ministry to develop natural language processing and machine translation solutions. Continue reading
Language services provider to the US government SOS International (SOSi) acquires minority stake in machine translation and speech recognition provider AppTek. Continue reading
Over 60 contributors in 15 African countries are gathering data and developing machine translation models to translate the Internet into indigenous languages. Continue reading
SlatorCon toured three global cities across Europe and the US in 2019 and featured 28 speakers representing the full breadth of the language industry. Continue reading
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
Acrolinx Founder Andrew Bredenkamp walked SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019 attendees through AI’s current challenges and his predictions for the next three years. Continue reading
The world’s largest NLP conference, EMNLP, announces the winners of the 2019 awards for Best Paper, Best Paper Runner-Up, Best Demo Paper and Best Resource Paper. 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
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