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People Moves • By Marion Marking On 3 Sep 2021

From Software Engineer to CEO: TextShuttle Names Lucas Seiler Its New Leader

Switzerland-based machine translation provider, TextShuttle, promotes Software Engineer, Lucas Seiler, to CEO. Seiler on their business model and growth opportunities.

Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 25 Nov 2020

New Research Flips the Script on CAT Tools — Literally

November 2020 paper by University of Zurich and Lilt researchers measures how text presentation impacts translation quality via three tasks: copying, identifying errors, and revision.

Machine Translation • By Marion Marking On 26 Mar 2020

How to Fix the 5 Flaws in Evaluating Machine Translation

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.

Features • By Tess MacDougall On 20 Dec 2019

Top Language Industry Quotes of 2019

From technology, markets, and M&A to investment and the competitive landscape, the language industry leaders we interviewed in 2019 commented on a wide range of issues. Here are our top picks.

Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 17 Oct 2019

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.

Academia • By Vijayalaxmi Hegde On 14 Jun 2019

MT Post-Editing Boosts Swiss Bank’s Translation Productivity by Up to 60%, Study Finds

Study examines impact of machine translation post-editing on productivity of in-house translators at Switzerland’s Migros Bank.

Features • By Esther Bond On 28 Dec 2018

Language Industry Top Quotes of 2018

From technology, markets, and M&A to investment and the competitive landscape, the language industry leaders we interviewed in 2018 commented on a wide range of issues - here are our top picks.

Machine Translation • By Gino Diño On 14 Sep 2018

Google, Microsoft, Baidu Step Up NMT Research in Record August as BLEU Takes Heat

August 2018 became the busiest month ever for neural machine translation research as more papers call for improved evaluation methods and big tech companies step up the number of submissions.

Academia • By Gino Diño On 24 Aug 2018

In Human vs. Machine Translation, Compare Documents, Not Sentences

Microsoft’s “human parity” claims drew skepticism from a team of neural machine translation researchers as they found that much of the research and industry community is looking at the problem from the wrong angle.

People Moves • By Florian Faes On 18 Jul 2018

Sequoia Partner Bill Coughran Joins Lilt Board

Translation productivity startup Lilt adds tech industry veteran and Sequoia Capital Partner Bill Coughran to its board of directors and steps up hiring.

Technology • By Gino Diño On 27 Apr 2018

Google, Facebook, Amazon: Neural Machine Translation Just Had Its Busiest Month Ever

Research into neural machine translation in 2018 is exploding, with April 2018 being the busiest month ever for NMT, as Big Tech companies from Google to Facebook to Amazon go full throttle on multiple areas of research.

Research & Reports • By Slator On 22 Mar 2018

Slator Neural Machine Translation Report 2018

Slator releases the Neural Machine Translation Report 2018. The report delves into the business case for neural machine translation, and answers the most pertinent questions surrounding the new technology with insights and information from 17 industry and academia experts to provide a clearer picture of NMT in 2018.

Technology • By Gino Diño On 18 Dec 2017

Samuel Läubli

From Software Engineer to CEO: TextShuttle Names Lucas Seiler Its New Leader

New Research Flips the Script on CAT Tools — Literally

How to Fix the 5 Flaws in Evaluating Machine Translation

Top Language Industry Quotes of 2019

Does Google’s BERT Matter in Machine Translation?

MT Post-Editing Boosts Swiss Bank’s Translation Productivity by Up to 60%, Study Finds

Language Industry Top Quotes of 2018

Google, Microsoft, Baidu Step Up NMT Research in Record August as BLEU Takes Heat

In Human vs. Machine Translation, Compare Documents, Not Sentences

Sequoia Partner Bill Coughran Joins Lilt Board

Google, Facebook, Amazon: Neural Machine Translation Just Had Its Busiest Month Ever

Slator Neural Machine Translation Report 2018

3 Reasons Why Neural Machine Translation is a Breakthrough

At SlatorCon Zurich, Leaders See Language Industry at Critical Juncture

Swiss Science Foundation Grants USD 0.5m to Take Neural MT Beyond the Sentence

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