December 2023 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from December 2023
π News and launches
- Meta launches and shares Seamless models for speech translation from 100 languages.
- Microsoft Translator launches customization for direct models of non-English languages.
- Microsoft Translator adds four more languages.
- Messagepoint launches translation feature using OpenAI and DeepL.
- AMTA 2023 videos are now online.
- WMT23 papers are now online.
- Samsung launches Samsung Gauss, a ChatGPT competitor.
- The book La evoluciΓ³n de la industria, about MT and PE for translators, was published.
More product and feature launches β
π Research
- Can quality estimation help in data filtering?
- Does human feedback during training improve MT quality?
- How can monolingual corpus improve zero-shot translation by using LLMs?
- MaxEns, a method for ensembling multiple pivot translations with multilingual models.
β Questions
- Can online bilingual dictionaries or ChatGPT be considered machine translation?
More questions from the community β
ποΈ Podcasts
- The state of machine translation with professor and author Lynne Bowker
- Early Google Translate, machine translation quality prediction and accelerationism with with ModelFront CEO Adam Bittlingmayer
β°οΈ Deadlines
- Machine and Computer-assisted Interpreting - LANS-TTS call for papers - 1 April 2024
- EAMT 2024 - EAMT call for workshops - 31 January 2024
- EAMT 2024 - EAMT call for papers - 8 March 2024
- EAMT 2024 - EAMT call for tutorials - 8 March 2024
π Events
- EAMT 2024 - 24 - 27 June 2024 - Sheffield π¬π§
- AmericasNLP 2024 - Date to be confirmed - Mexico City π²π½
- Hybrid translation β AI efficiency, human quality (US time) - 17 January 2024 - online
- Hybrid translation β AI efficiency, human quality (EU time) - 17 January 2024 - online
β¦ And the fourth Machine Translate meetup will happen soon. Register here!
π» Jobs
- (Still open) Machine Translation Implementation Manager at Transperfect - New York City πΊπΈ
- Language Technologies Application Manager at Stadler - Bussnang π¨π
- Research intern, speech translation at Microsoft - Seattle πΊπΈ
- Research intern, machine translation at Microsoft - Seattle πΊπΈ
- Research Scientist Intern, Language & Multimodal Foundations (PhD) at Meta - California πΊπΈ
- NLP Data Engineer at Yaraku - Tokyo π―π΅
- Coordinator of Machine Translation and Digital Translation Resources at OECD - Paris π«π·
- Volunteers for AmericasNLP (focused on American indigenous languages) 2024 workshop.