Measuring Machine Translation Quality in the Era of Neural
Professor Andy Way, Deputy Director of ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, unpacks quality expectations...
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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...
Here’s What Machine Translation Researchers Are Geeking Out On
Making do with less training data, infusing models with more document-level context, and increasing efficiency...
European Commission Announces Winners in Student Translation Competition
Twenty-eight students from across the European Union win this year’s Juvenes Translatores, the European Commission’s...
US Spy Agency Awards Columbia University USD 14m Machine Translation Grant
US government earmarks USD 14m for research into automated translations of low-resource language material for...
Machine Translation Researchers Set to Find Out Whose System Is Best
In early September, Copenhagen will become the center of the machine translation universe as hundreds...
Swiss Science Foundation Grants USD 0.5m to Take Neural MT Beyond the Sentence
Switzerland’s National Science Foundation funds a research project by the University of Zurich to the...
Yale and Oxford Enter the Business of Predicting the End of the Human Translator
Results of a survey among hundreds of machine learning researchers say machines will overtake (amateur)...
Neural Machine Translation Research Accelerates Dramatically
As interest in neural machine translation reaches new heights — with even Mark Zuckerberg posting...
Translators Win Big Across Europe
The European Commission announces the winners of its annual student translation competition, which saw over...
A Third Rely on Translation to Make E-commerce Decisions — Oxford Study
Research by Oxford Internet Institute on how online consumers react to foreign-language, user-generated reviews reveals...