AI support services startup Scale AI uses a combination of crowd and automation to label data incl. NLP, putting it in direct competition with Appen and Lionbridge. Continue reading
Over 120 language industry leaders will meet at the language industry’s premier executive forum in San Francisco on September 12. Browse the full agenda now. Continue reading
Will regulatory changes favor the language industry? What practical impact will NLP have on the market? Who uses RSI apps? Should LSPs pursue the language data market? Continue reading
Jakarta-based natural language processing startup Halosis raises USD 1.2m angel investment to scale Bahasa Indonesia and local dialect chatbot tech. Continue reading
New research by Google AI explores multilingual NMT on an unprecedented scale. Good for low-resource languages, less so for the rest, results show. Continue reading
Venture capitalists see opportunity as startups begin to apply breakthroughs in transfer learning and new language models, such as BERT, ELMo, OpenAI's GPT-2, and ULMFiT. Continue reading
Virtual assistants are already part of the e-commerce setting, but taking them multilingual and training them for conversations with multiple variables still poses challenges. Continue reading
Set to go live in September 2019, SDL Language Cloud combines productivity, workbench, and PM features in an end-to-end solution for continuous localization. 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
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
Neural machine translation experts weigh in on Google’s open sourcing of Lingvo, a sequence modeling framework built on TensorFlow. 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
Download Slator’s 2018 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report — an in-depth summary and analysis of the 48 language industry mergers and acquisitions and ten startup funding rounds Slator... Continue reading
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