Does Google’s BERT Matter in Machine Translation?
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
Tag: NMT
Machine Translation for Consumers: China’s Youdao Seeks to Raise 300m in US IPO
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 Engineer on Machine Translation Research’s State-of-the Art and Future Direction
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
Key Takeaways from SlatorCon San Francisco 2019
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
German LSP lengoo Raises EUR 6.0m Series A from Redalpine, Angel Investors
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
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From Hype to API: Baidu Productizes Speech-to-Speech Translation
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
SlatorCon San Francisco 2019: Full Agenda Announced
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
Language Data Startup UTH Raises Series C From China Big Tech
Backed by big China tech, language data startup UTH International raised a Series C, bringing total funds raised to about USD 30m. Continue reading
Korea’s Flitto Raises USD 23m in IPO
Korean language services and data company Flitto raises USD 23m in IPO on electronic trading platform Kosdaq, Korea’s answer to Nasdaq; CEO heralds “AI boom era.” Continue reading
Lingua Custodia Raises USD 1.3m Ahead of Luxembourg Launch
Financial machine translation company Lingua Custodia raises USD 1.3m with help of angel investor platform; plans to open new office in European fund hub Luxembourg. Continue reading
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What’s so Massive About Google’s Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation?
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
‘Incredibly Vibrant’ — VCs Excited About Natural Language Processing in 2019
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
New Language Industry IPO as Korea’s Flitto Prepares for Scalability-Based Listing
First, Appen. Now, Flitto. Language data startup Flitto, which is about to list on Korean electronic trading platform Kosdaq, has attracted high, early demand for shares. Continue reading
SDL Gearing Up for General Release of AI-Packed SDL Language Cloud
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
Third Revolution in Language Is Upon Us and Will Impact Translators, Interpreters — EU
EU Institutions publish paper on language technologies and AI, as most EU translation departments now use NMT and provide machine translated output to their linguists. Continue reading
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