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Google I/O and Microsoft Build 2019 were short on big language tech reveals, although relevant announcements and previews were sprinkled throughout both events. Continue reading
Over two dozen charts and tables and high-level visualizations as well as analysis of GitHub code repositories relevant to the language industry. Continue reading
Natural language processing and neural MT feature heavily as Facebook discusses developments in artificial intelligence at their developer conference F8 2019. Continue reading
Google researchers approach speech-to-speech translation a little differently in a proof-of-concept that completely takes away reference text, but underperforms compared to existing models. Continue reading
With Google Stadia, Microsoft’s xCloud, and Apple Arcade bursting into the cloud-based game streaming scene, how will game localization be affected? Continue reading
How a simple language-learning shortcut using Google Translate went viral and inspired newbie app localizers to try a DIY approach to localization. Continue reading
EU’s CEF grants 5 project proposals for the implementation, data collection, and integration of NMT for low-resource languages, a total of EUR 4.3m in funds. Continue reading
Long the domain of academia, fundamental research in machine translation has become a battleground for big tech and niche providers. Continue reading
As NLP developments march on unabated, recent news reflects the state of research, investor excitement, and production deployment levels for current technologies. Continue reading
Neural machine translation experts weigh in on Google’s open sourcing of Lingvo, a sequence modeling framework built on TensorFlow. Continue reading
Language industry startups Unbabel and Lilt took to the stage at one of Europe’s largest machine learning conferences and explained how they build atop evermore sophisticated AI tech. Continue reading
US research agency IARPA is conducting an open competition under one of its main programs that challenges participants to build a system where users search audio and text documents in... Continue reading
Google is concerned it might be mistakenly assuming genders in machine translation; initial effort to reduce gender bias only the first step in dealing with similar challenges in neural machine... Continue reading
A rundown of the translation and interpretation gadgets and earpieces presented at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Continue reading
Amazon adds a custom terminology feature, Microsoft rolls out custom NMT, and IBM’s Watson Language Translator now preserves document formatting between source and target text. Continue reading
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