'Many open roles'—look who’s hiring! Email no longer ‘feels like millions.’ For PEMT, what’s a reasonable speed and will hiring subject-matter experts fluent only in the target language become a thing? Continue reading
Berlin-based startup Lengoo raises USD 20m Series B on thesis that custom machine translation combined with human-in-the-loop service can outcompete incumbent language service providers. Continue reading
Translation management tech and marketplace provider Smartcat raises USD 14.6m in Series B; 2020 set to become banner year for language industry investment. Continue reading
New research suggests biases of QE datasets lead to guesstimates on machine translation quality. Researchers propose modified dataset, debut it at WMT 2020. Continue reading
Salesforce research on speeding up the work of post-editors by training MT engines with XML tags culminates in a 17-language online help dataset published on Github. Continue reading
European Language Industry Survey 2020 reveals what’s top of mind for language service providers and freelancers amid current coronavirus crisis. 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
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
As the language industry becomes more and more competitive, what are universities doing to ensure that their translation students are ready to enter the marketplace? 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
UN asks vendors to pitch solutions for remote interpreting, neural machine translation, speech-to-text, etc. to secure one of 25 spots at January 2020 conferencing tech fair in Geneva. Continue reading
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
Characterizing post-editors based on their keystrokes, mouse activity, and other editing actions can help predict speed and, eventually, quality, says a new paper by Unbabel researchers. Continue reading
The apex court is said to be using “translation software” to translate judgments into six Indian languages — a first in India, where the language of the law is still largely English. Continue reading
Post-editing machine translation versus unaided human translation from scratch — new research reveals how the output differs. Continue reading
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