August 2023 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from August 2023
ποΈ News
- Alon Lavie and Craig Stewart, both formerly at YC startup Unbabel, joined Phrase to work on generative AI.
- DeepL is now in marketing mode, after raising over $100M at a unicorn valuation. Once famously stealthy, DeepL is now at events, like LocWorld, launching on more platforms, like Firefox, and expanding to more countries, like Japan.
- Which TMS supports which MT? Machine Translate launched coverage of machine translation integrations in translation management systems.
π Launches
- memoQ launched ModelFront and TAUS integrations for machine translation quality prediction.
- Bablic, a Weglot competitor, says it will add machine translation quality prediction, after exiting to Unbabel.
- Trados added Language Weaver across all editions.
- DeepL launched its official Firefox plugin.
- Amazon Translate launched morphologically-aware glossaries.
More product and feature launches β
β Questions
- How to add ModernMT in XTM?
- Does DeepL use post-edited segments for continuous training?
- Connecting Google AutoML to memoQ
- Recommended MTs for English to Ukrainian
- Translation app with TTS (text-to-speech) for Persian?
- Recent paper about ChatGPT vs machine translation APIs?
- Can I use DeepL in a country where it is not supported?
More questions from the community β
ποΈ Podcasts
- SlatorPod on DeepL vs ChatGPT with Carnegie Mellon professor Graham Neubig
- memoQ talk on quality prediction with ModelFront CEO Adam Bittlingmayer
β°οΈ Deadlines
π Events
- MT Summit 2023 - 4 - 8 September - Macau π²π΄
- WAT 2023 - 4 September - Macau π²π΄
- CoCo4MT 2023 - 4 - 5 September - Macau π²π΄
- Seattle area localization meetup - 13 September - Seattle πΊπΈ
- Language Intelligence Summit - 21 - 22 September - Leipzig π©πͺ and online π
- TAUS Annual Conference 2023 - 4 - 6 October - Salt Lake City, Utah πΊπΈ
- AMTA 2023 - 8 November - online π
- WMT23 - 6 - 7 December - Singapore πΈπ¬
β¦ And the fourth Machine Translate meetup will happen soon. Register here!
π» Jobs
- Machine Translation Specialist at Tolingo - Hamburg, Germany π©πͺ
- Machine Translation Specialist at Pangeanic - Valencia, Spain πͺπΈ
- PhD for MT in Sign language and Spoken languages at Tilburg University - Tilburg, Netherlands π³π±
- NMT Fellow at the WIPO - Geneva, Switzerland π¨π
- Machine Translation Manager at Datawords - Levallois-Perret, France π«π·