April 2024 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from April 2024
๐๏ธ News
- Lengoo went bankrupt.
- Google Translate killed its โContributeโ feature.
- Forbes adds DeepL to the Forbes AI 50.
- Dubbing and speech translation startup CAMB.AI raised $4M.
- AppTek sold shares to Deluxe.
- TextShuttle merged with Supertext.
- Krisp demos translation between accents of the same language.
- The World Poker Tour is dubbing episodes into Brazilian Portuguese.
- Sunnyvale will live-translate public meetings ( https://www.reddit.com/r/machinetranslation/comments/1c0logw/sunnyvale_now_livetranslates_public_meetings_with/).
๐ Launches
- Google Translate launches a swipe-to-translate feature for mobile.
- Microsoft Bing adds formality.
- Coursera launches machine-translated courses in Korean.
- Roblox launches real-time chat translation.
- Deepdub launches accent selection.
๐ Education
- TAN 2024 seminar for building an NMT engine (in Spanish) - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ๐ช๐ธ
๐ Research
- CONTEXT-MQM: Unbabelโs evaluation metric for chat translation.
- Jindลich Libovickรฝ highlighted MT and multilinguality papers from March 2024.
- Contrastive Preference Optimization : a new fine-tuning approach that prevents quality issues of gold references.
- MT Ranker: a new evaluation system that compares different systemsโ translations and predicts the best option.
โ Questions
- Is Microsoft Edge adding video translation?
- How to translate chats on AliExpress?
- How to build machine translation quality prediction?
- How to train a custom model for Yiddish?
- Context awareness?
- Translating a novel from Japanese into English?
- Urdu support?
- Benga support?
- Anonymizing training data?
- Why do I see a third language in my machine translations?
๐๏ธ Podcasts
- AppTek partnership and more with Deluxeโs CEO Chris Reynolds
โฐ๏ธ Deadlines
- IWSLT 2024 calls for papers - 29 April
- NETTT 2024 calls for papers - 30 April
- AMTA 2024 call for papers - 6 June
- AMTA 2024 call for tutorials and workshops - 6 June
- AMTA 2024 call for Best Thesis Award - 6 June
- WMT24 call for papers - 12 August
๐ Events
- AmericasNLP - 20 - 21 June - Mexico City ๐ฒ๐ฝ
- EAMT 2024 - 20 - 21 June - Sheffield ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
- NETTT 2024 - 3 - 6 July - Varna ๐ง๐ฌ
- IWSLT 2024 - 15 - 16 August - Bangkok ๐น๐ญ
- AMTA 2024 - 30 September - 2 October - Chicago ๐บ๐ธ
- WMT24 - 12 - November - Miami ๐บ๐ธ
โฆ And the fifth Machine Translate meetup will happen soon. Register here!
๐ป Jobs
- PhD Position on Resource-efficient Foundation Models at FBK - Trento ๐ฎ๐น
- Senior Researcher at Microsoft - Redmond ๐บ๐ธ
- AI Program Manager at Welocalize - Buenos Aires ๐ฆ๐ท
- NLP Engineer (Machine Translation) at TikTok - Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
- NLP engineer at ByteDance - Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
- NLP Researcher - Machine Translation at ByteDance - Guangdong ๐จ๐ณ
- Conversational AI Research Intern at NVIDIA - Yerevan ๐ฆ๐ฒ
- Software Development Engineer at myGwork - Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช
- AI/ML - Applied Research Engineer at SPECTRAFORCE - New York ๐บ๐ธ
- Machine Learning Engineer at J&C Associates - Lu ๐ฎ๐น