“Nearly Indistinguishable From Human Translation”—Google Claims Breakthrough
Google team publishes a detailed paper on its rapid progress in neural machine translation. Says...
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Open-source Translation Productivity Tool Finds a Dozen Backers
Supertext, Lexitech, IOLAR, beo, Lucy Software, and Globalese among backers that raised a collective EUR...
How Neural Machine Translation Can Unlock Europe’s Digital Single Market
Overcoming the language barrier is one of the most important roadblocks to the creation of...
Machine Translation Caught Up in Amazon’s AI Hiring Spree
Amazon’s poaching of an eBay executive and holder of machine translation patents is a clear...
If Doctors Work for Free, Why Not Translators, Healthcare Startup Hopes
Healthcare platform startup HealthTap, whose 100,000 participating doctors and millions of users contributed nearly 5...
UN Feeds 800,000 Documents to Translation Bots
After years of third parties mining its data, the UN publishes a vast corpus of...
Korea’s Internet Giant Naver Admits Translation Tech Rip-off
CEO of Korea’s largest Internet company Naver shuts down translation service after crowdsourcing platform Flitto...
LinkedIn Serious About Running Freelance Translation Marketplace
Professional social network builds out its order form for freelance translation services under its ProFinder...
Facebook Says Statistical Machine Translation Has Reached End of Life
Why statistical machine translation has maxed out its potential and why even a building full...
Alibaba Launches Language Services Unit
China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba creates a language services unit to accelerate international growth of SMEs...
EU Commissioner Calls Multilingualism Business Hurdle, Advocates Language Tech
Profile of language technology raised as European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip calls overcoming language...
Google Applies for Neural Machine Translation Patent, Experts React
Search giant’s patent application is yet another indication that the move toward neural machine translation...
How Will Google’s SyntaxNet Release Impact Machine Translation?
Google’s SyntaxNet release is good news for app developers. But what does it mean for...
Disruption Turns 10 as Google Translate Comes of Age
The software used by 500 million people each month, which causes anxiety among linguists and...