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
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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
Servers in Iceland. A million words per second. Record BLEU scores. The founders of Linguee launch their neural machine translator DeepL with bold claims. Experts agree that DeepL will challenge other MT players but call the output far from revolutionary. Continue reading
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The WordPress open source community is getting ready for a 24-hour global translation marathon to be held on International Translation Day on September 30. Continue reading
GitHub’s new bazaar for apps now has a category for localization. The first app in this category promises to simplify workflows for software developers when translating content. Continue reading
Facebook says it has completed transitioning to neural machine translation models in its backend systems. Factoring in slang, typos, abbreviations, and all shades and nuances of social media posts, will this really result in more fluent translations? Continue reading
Engineers at Booking.com built a production-level neural machine translation system based on Harvard’s OpenNMT framework and run on Amazon Web Services infrastructure. Continue reading
Google publishes a tutorial on how to build a neural machine translation model from scratch in a push to accelerate adoption of its machine learning framework Tensorflow. Experts call the announcement important, but say production deployment requires much more than a tutorial. Continue reading
Europe continues to ramp up research in language technology. The number of papers published on machine translation in an academic journal has reached the highest number in more than a decade. Continue reading
CNBC reports that Amazon is looking to offer the translation technology it built for internal use to third parties. The move would be a direct challenge to Google Translate and the many other MT offerings by big tech companies. Continue reading
Google Translate’s top 10 words commonly translated into English include many words of admiration and several days of the week. Results for most languages are consistent with Japanese being the outlier. Continue reading
In 2013, the European Patent Office (EPO) partnered with Google to power its for-information-only Patent Translate portal. In May 2017, the EPO rolled out neural machine translation. And as Europe implements a new patent regime in the coming years, machine translation will play an ever more important role. Continue reading
Google Translate hides in plain site at annual developer conference. The talk was mostly about AI and the search giant’s proprietary processors that power neural machine translation. And then there was CEO Sundar Pichai introducing Google Lens, translation feature and all. Continue reading
Deloitte homes in on translation in report about how US government can leverage artificial intelligence to cut costs. Consulting firm proposes AI-augmented approach, which leaves the translator in control of the creative process and responsible for aesthetic judgments. Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg looks forward to “making universal translation a reality” by open sourcing a new approach to neural machine translation. NMT expert impressed by faster training times of the new models but cautions against inflated quality expectations. Continue reading
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