How to Fix the 5 Flaws in Evaluating Machine Translation
Group of leading researchers finds that the way machine translation quality is evaluated by humans...
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US Coast Guard Opens RFP to Replace ‘Human Translator’ with ‘Portable Translator’
US Department of Homeland Security launches RFP for “portable language translator” device to replace “on-scene...
The Masakhane Project Puts Africa on the Machine Translation Map
Over 60 contributors in 15 African countries are gathering data and developing machine translation models...
Machine Dubbing: Amazon AI Opens New Chapter in Automating Media Localization
Team of Amazon AI researchers combines various deep-learning models to build automatic dubbing system. Viewer...
BLEU Has Measured Machine Translation Quality Since 2002. It’s Fast Becoming Useless.
As machine translation quality improves, precision-based metrics struggle to identify the best systems. Why have...
A Quick Primer on Edit-Distance, a Key Metric in Post-Editing Machine Translation
As the language industry transitions to an operating model where the first draft is mostly...
Machine Translation Key in China’s Data Collection Strategy, Australian Report Says
An October 2019 paper by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute examines how China can employ...
Does Google’s BERT Matter in Machine Translation?
Less than one year after Google open-sourced its much-discussed language model BERT, experts weigh in...
Google to Shelve Translator Toolkit After Decade of Failing to Gain Traction
Mixed reactions from linguists and industry experts as search giant shelves its in-house translation productivity...
Apple May Be Stepping Up Its Game in Machine Translation
Leaked documents list additional machine translation capabilities for Siri as part of an upgrade for...
Facebook Patents Alternative to ‘Expensive’ BLEU
Facebook has been granted a patent for its machine translation quality evaluation system, which relies...
From Hype to API: Baidu Productizes Speech-to-Speech Translation
Baidu launches API for speech-to-speech translation based on technology outlined in late-2018 research paper, which...
What Makes a Good Post-Editor: Research Examines Activity Patterns of over 300 Linguists
Characterizing post-editors based on their keystrokes, mouse activity, and other editing actions can help predict...
What’s so Massive About Google’s Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation?
New research by Google AI explores multilingual NMT on an unprecedented scale. Good for low-resource...