Facebook Completes Transition to Neural Machine Translation
Facebook says it has completed transitioning to neural machine translation models in its backend systems....
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Booking.com Builds on Harvard Framework to Run Neural MT at Scale
Engineers at Booking.com built a production-level neural machine translation system based on Harvard’s OpenNMT framework...
Google Pitches Tensorflow to Neural Machine Translation Developers
Google publishes a tutorial on how to build a neural machine translation model from scratch...
Here Is Europe’s State of the Art in Machine Translation Research
Europe continues to ramp up research in language technology. The number of papers published on...
Amazon Plans to Take On Google Translate, Media Reports
CNBC reports that Amazon is looking to offer the translation technology it built for internal...
“Beautiful” is Google Translate’s Most Translated Word
Google Translate’s top 10 words commonly translated into English include many words of admiration and...
Inside the EPO’s Machine-Powered Mission to Unlock Europe’s Multilingual Patents
In 2013, the European Patent Office (EPO) partnered with Google to power its for-information-only Patent...
We Went to Google I/O to See What’s New With Google Translate
Google Translate hides in plain site at annual developer conference. The talk was mostly about...
Deloitte Singles Out Translation in How Governments Can Cut Costs Using AI
Deloitte homes in on translation in report about how US government can leverage artificial intelligence...
Facebook to Open Source Its Neural Machine Translation, Zuckerberg Announces
Mark Zuckerberg looks forward to “making universal translation a reality” by open sourcing a new...
Facebook Engineer on Why Translation Is Still Hard
Facebook Engineering Manager Necip Fazil Ayan discusses the social network’s key challenges with machine translating...
Bay Area Startups Cloudwords and Lilt to Partner
Under CEO Richard Harpham, who joined in May 2016, Cloudwords is opening up. The San...
Making Money on YouTube’s Translation Marketplace
In addition to DIY, Google Translate, and crowdsourcing, YouTube also offers content creators to have...
Germany’s Most Popular Productivity Tools for Technical Translators
More than half the tools used by technical translators in Germany are developed by SDL;...