Amazon comes out guns blazing in general launch of Amazon Translate and enlists Lionbridge as showcase customer. Pricing in line with other tech giants Google and Microsoft while quality still likely trails DeepL. Continue reading
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Microsoft did not pull any punches announcing their research findings on new neural machine translation systems that have achieved “human parity” in Chinese to English news translation according to a new human evaluation method they developed. Continue reading
China issued a 3-year action plan to boost AI development for implementation across the whole country. It sets out quantified targets for eight commercial applications of AI, including speech recognition and machine translation, which it wants to achieve by 2020. Continue reading
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European researchers train neural machine translation on 100 million words to translate Lord of the Flies, 1984, Ulysses, and nine other works of literature from English into Catalan. Between one third and one sixth of the sentences “would not need any correction”. Continue reading
Though Amazon announced its open-source, sequence-to-sequence machine learning framework Sockeye would be available to all last July 2017, its researchers waited until December 2017 to file papers into Arxiv so they can test their creation against WMT2017’s best. Continue reading
PhD Candidate and TextShuttle CTO Samuel Läubli presented a compelling case for neural machine translation during SlatorCon Zurich, outlining why neural is a breakthrough over predecessor technologies. Continue reading
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy launches the cloud computing giant’s enterprise neural machine translation offering at its annual conference in Las Vegas. Language service providers among core target client group. Continue reading
Facebook experiments with post-editing to improve its neural machine translation system. The QuickEdit system supposedly improves machine output by learning from post-editors by simply rejecting words in a translation that don’t work. Continue reading
Salesforce launches its own neural machine translation model at Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. The model has not been productized yet but AI unit head hints at deployment in 2018. Continue reading
At SlatorCon New York, Assistant Professor Kyunghyun Cho gave the audience a breakdown of the state-of-the-art in neural machine translation: how it developed, how it beat existing MT systems, and how it’s already mainstream and extremely fast-moving. Continue reading
Jaroslaw Kutylowski, Chief Technology Officer of DeepL, talks about why they decided to enter machine translation, discusses how they plan to monetize their technology, and weighs in on the man vs. machine debate. Continue reading
Apple has reportedly quietly rolled out a beta test for a browser-based translator that can translate English into 32 other languages. Continue reading
The pace of translation product launches targeting the mass consumer market is accelerating in Asia. Earpieces, apps, and handheld devices are sold across potentially vast markets like China, Japan, and Korea. Continue reading
Come October 17, users can suggest translation corrections on their Windows 10 OS through the new Language Community app. The program has already opened for so called Windows Insiders. Continue reading
Termination letters, confidential contracts, financial information, staff performance reports and much more freely available online as machine translation enquiries on translate.com are indexed by Google. Continue reading
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