How Translation Gadgets Overpromise and Underdeliver
While the folks at Skype Translator admit their technology still has a negative impact on...
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Yandex Puts Machine Translation at the Core of New AI Strategy
Yandex hires Microsoft veteran, folds machine translation unit into new machine learning division. Russian language...
Surprise: The Humans Won
Korea pits professional translators against assortment of neural machine translation engines. Contest shows that —...
Microsoft Releases Corpus So Clients Can Help Improve Skype Translator
Technology giant Microsoft releases 2GB of audio, transcription, and translation corpus. Says it wants to...
What’s Amazon Up to in Machine Translation?
Exclusive interview with Bill Kaper, General Manager of Amazon’s Translation Services group and head of...
US Military Equips Soldiers in the Field With Machine Translation
US Army rolls out apps that provide speech-to-speech and text-to-text machine translations, which can be...
Intel Granted US Patent for Language Translation System
Intel follows the lead of its big tech peers Amazon, Google, and Microsoft and gets...
Neural Conquers Patent Translation in Major WIPO Roll-out
One by one, major providers and users of machine translation are switching their technology-powered engine...
Google’s Neural Model Translates New Languages Without Prior Training
As Google deploys its recently unveiled neural machine translation model to Google Translate, new tweaks...
How BLEU Measures Translation and Why It Matters
When Google’s CEO goes on stage and measures translation accuracy to the third decimal place,...
New Generation of Data Scientists Tackles Translation
Deploying neural networks for machine translation has drawn a new crop of researchers to test...
White House Report Puts Translation Under Narrow AI, Calls Progress Remarkable
Committee advising US President on science and tech policy formulation and budget development publishes report...
Systran Goes Neural, Lets You Try It
Machine translation vendor opens demo version of its neural machine translation engine to the public;...
How Big Tech Is Using Machine Translation as an AI Proxy
Microsoft translates all of Wikipedia’s English pages in under a tenth of a second. Baidu...