Yes, Now They Claim Machines ‘Outperform’ Human Translation in Adequacy
A group of AI researchers takes the perennial human vs. machine debate to the next...
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From enterprise translation AI to automated localization.
Amazon Releases New Iteration of Neural Machine Translation Toolkit Sockeye
Since its 2017 debut, Sockeye has powered Amazon Translate and gathered decent traction elsewhere. The...
Facebook Ramps Up Open Source Drive Into Speech Translation
Facebook AI invites developers to improve a speech translation dataset and a open sources a...
Facebook Researchers Say Machine Translation Quality Estimation Lacking
New research suggests biases of QE datasets lead to guesstimates on machine translation quality. Researchers...
Salesforce Just Open-Sourced a Large, XML-Tagged Machine Translation Dataset
Salesforce research on speeding up the work of post-editors by training MT engines with XML...
Egypt Inks Machine Translation, NLP Deal with China’s iFlytek
Chinese speech recognition and AI provider iFlytek signs R&D deal with Egypt’s ICT Ministry to...
TWB, Big Tech, Academia Take on Covid-19 Language Challenge
Collaboration between Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc., and Translators Without Borders aims to fight Covid-19...
Now We Know Why Apple Stepped Up Machine Translation Research
Apple reveals iOS 14 will feature a Translate app, competing with Google’s Translate app and...
Researchers Explore Surprising Behavior of Machine Translation
Researchers investigate the unexpected behavior of NMT and find surprising differences in the translations of...
How Netflix Researchers Simplify Subtitles for Translation
A group of Netflix machine learning engineers explore the use of back-translations to simplify subtitle...
Now on GitHub: New Speech-to-speech Translation Toolkit
Japanese researcher-developers created an open-source all-in-one speech-to-speech translation toolkit to help machine translation researchers, and...
Google Fixes Gender Bias in Google Translate (Again)
Google Translate unveils a new approach to solving gender bias in machine translation, after its...
New Google Research May Improve Live-Translation of Virtual Meetings
Already offering live captions in Google Meet, Google is now researching simultaneous translation approaches for...
Apple Scientists Go on a ‘Quest Toward Overcoming’ Speech Translation
Two research scientists from Apple surveyed 30 years worth of research into speech translation and...