Harvard Launches Open-source Neural Machine Translation System
“Google, we promise we are not taking you on,” says the Harvard NLP group as...
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In Research, Neural Steamrolls Statistical Machine Translation
Research into statistical machine translation is fast falling out of favor among the research community...
How German Compounds Get Lost in Translation
PhD thesis by Anne Weber from Germany’s Saarland University reveals that German compound nouns do...
Researchers Report Significant Progress in Real-time Machine Translation
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Hong Kong, and New York University say they...
Neural Machine Translation Improving Fast, Study Finds
New study shows neural machine translation (NMT) performs significantly better than traditional statistical methods. Researchers...
Why Translating Chinese User Reviews May Disappoint Danish Tourists
Study of over 500,000 user-generated reviews on TripAdvisor reveals stark contrasts in the relevance of...
Backbreaking: 80% of Freelance Translators Suffer From Neck Pain, Survey Finds
Survey by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences of nearly 2,000 translators on ergonomics reveals:...
Europe’s Got Talent: EU Selects Winners of Young Translator Contest
European Commission announces winners of Juvenes Translatores contest. Students turn in entries in 166 language...
Translation Research Gets Almost A Third of Ireland’s €50M ADAPT Investment
Vistatec, Moravia, Welocalize, and Sajan among 19 industry partners expected to fund more than half...
2015 in Academia: Talent for Providers, Money for MOOCs
As the language services market grows, academic institutions respond to demand for talent while MOOCs...
3M Euro TraMOOC Project May be Commercialized
Dr. Joss Moorkens speaks to Slator to expound on the MOOC translation project that EU’s...
Academia Responds to Growth in Language Services
New language center in Egypt, MA Translation with Business Interpreting (Chinese) in the UK, and...
LSPs Not Needed: Coursera’s Approach to Translation
More and more organizations leverage direct, technology-enabled crowdsourcing of translation and localization through a large...