February 2024 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from February 2024
๐๏ธ News
- Systran gets acquired by ChapsVision.
- Japan starts machine-translating laws into English.
- HeyGenโs video translation of the Argentinaโs presidentโs WEF speech goes viral.
- The BBC tests machine translation and subtitling.
- Searchlight Cyber finds cybersecurity threats in the dark web with machine translation.
- Contents.com raises 18 million dollars to work on its multilingual content generation, translation and support platform.
- Wondercraft raises 3 million dollars for its multilingual audio creation platform.
- ElevenLabs raises 80 million dollars for voice translation and is valued at 1.1 billion dollars.
๐ Launches
- Ray-Ban launches translation in its smart glasses.
- Samsung Galaxy launches machine translation for voice and text.
- Cappella launches an app to translate babiesโ cries.
- Timekettle launches voice translation device.
- GCore launches a translation app for Luxembourgish.
- VoicePing launches a real-time voice translation app.
More product and feature launches โ
๐ Research
- Is Google Gemini good at machine translation?
- Can machine translation models predict human translation effort?
- How does machine translation word structure and sentence structure differ from human translation?
- How to understand top rule-based and AI-based metrics, from BLEU to Comet?
- Can fine-tuning LLMs improve adaptive machine translation?
- Web data is shockingly contaminated with machine translation.
- ALMA-R, a medium size LLM that outperforms GPT-4 at translation.
- How do fine-tuned medium-sized LLMs perform at document-level translation?
- How do LLMs handle โclassicโ machine translation challenges?
โ Questions
- Tips, experiences and recommendations using machine translation.
- What is the latency and throughput of machine translation APIs?
More questions from the community โ
๐๏ธ Podcasts
- How to implement language AI in enterprises with Translated VP of Language AI John Tinsley
โฐ๏ธ Deadlines
- EAMT 2024 call for workshops - 14 February
- EAMT 2024 call for papers - 8 March
- EAMT 2024 call for tutorials - 8 March
- AmericasNLP 2024 calls for papers - 10 March
- NETTT 2024 calls for papers - 31 March
- Machine and Computer-assisted Interpreting calls for papers - 1 April
- IWSLT 2024 calls for papers - 29 April
- AMTA 2024 call for papers - 6 June
๐ Events
- Machine translation meetup - Adaptive machine translation - 8 February - online ๐
- JIAMCATT - 6 - 8 March - Paris ๐ซ๐ท and online ๐
- 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
๐ป Jobs
- Localization Engineer/MT Specialist at Adaptive Business Group - Hamburg ๐ฉ๐ช
- Machine Translation Implementation Manager at Transperfect - Lisbon ๐ต๐น
- Machine Translation Applied Research Engineer at ICONMA - New York City ๐บ๐ธ
- Software Development Engineer at Amazon - Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช
- Azure AI Research Intern: Machine Translation at Microsoft - Redmond ๐บ๐ธ
- Machine Learning Engineer at WalkWater Technologies - Raleigh ๐บ๐ธ