The Art of Hyping Machine Translation
What’s behind the arcane research paper that Baidu helped spin into a machine translation breakthrough...
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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...
Neural Machine Translation Research Output Ballooned in the First Half of 2018
Research submissions on neural machine translations ballooned from 91 in the first half of 2017...
Middlebury’s New Translation and Interpretation Dean on Educating the Next Generation of Linguists
Professor Laura Burian, the new dean of the Middlebury Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation,...
May 2018 Marked (yet) Another Record Month for Neural Machine Translation
Some familiar names helped pushed May 2018 to the top of the charts in terms...
Simultaneous Interpreters May Soon Get Real-Time Help Just When They Need It
US researchers outline how technology could be used to support the work of simultaneous interpreters....
Measuring Machine Translation Quality in the Era of Neural
Professor Andy Way, Deputy Director of ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, unpacks quality expectations...
Facebook Promises Grants of up to USD 40,000 for Research into Low-Resource Neural MT
Facebook is inviting the academic community to submit research proposals for a USD 20,000 to...
Facebook Wants to Understand the Uncertainty in Neural Machine Translation
Facebook’s AI Research team delves into the neural machine translation black box and figures out...
For Users, Fluency Trumps Adequacy in Machine Translation, Study Finds
As long as machine translation is fluent, users are more likely to trust its output,...
EU Researchers Want A Billion Euros for ‘The Human Language Project’
With the ambitious goal of achieving natural language understanding by 2030, research institutions in Europe...