Tech-enabled LSP Lilt raised USD 25m just in time before Covid-19 disruption. CEO Spence Green talks about how they plan to expand within the enterprise and which MT trends excite him most. Continue reading
A research paper published in April 2020 explores how to reduce gender bias in neural machine translation (NMT) using transfer learning and fine-tuning. Continue reading
Group of leading researchers finds that the way machine translation quality is evaluated by humans is broken. Group issues five recommendations on how to fix it. 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
New partnership allows TRSB to enter the M&A race; founder takes on strategic role as longtime VP of Business Development Mary Kazamias is named CEO. 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
At SlatorCon Amsterdam 2019, One Hour Translation’s Yaron Kaufman shared his strategy for showing customers why now is the time to adopt machine translation. 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
LSPs moving toward hourly rates for linguists? Edit distance a viable metric long-term? Are regulations important to translation demand? Will Rev recover from bad press over transcriptionist pay cuts? Continue reading
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
Should ATA decouple certification from membership? How hard is corporate terminology? Is MT well integrated into translation productivity tools? Should institutions move to RSI? 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
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity trends across the global language industry, rises again in November 2019. Continue reading
Australia-listed LSP Straker provided an update to shareholders on its enterprise client drive, AppTek partnership and media loc push, and double digit top line growth Continue reading
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