January 2024 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from January 2024
๐๏ธ News
- Albaniaโs government will try to join the EU faster by using ChatGPT to translate EUrocracy in Albanian.
- Paris is building Travidia, a speech-to-speech app for the 2024 Olympics.
- Halton police officers will start using a translation app.
- Taiwan will install AI translation counters at airports and tourist attractions.
๐ Launches
- Google Translate launches homonyms selection in Search Generative Experience.
- Alibaba launches Qwen-Audio, a large audio language model.
- Phrase launches Phrase QPS, a quality prediction score based on the MQM framework.
- Lilt launches AI controls and multimodal translation features.
- Crowdin launches an integration with Google Gemini.
More product and feature launches โ
๐ Research
- Reducing gender bias by balancing datasets.
๐๏ธ Videos and podcasts
- Omniscienโs talk on Advances in AI and Language Technology 2024 with Philipp Koehn and more.
- SlatorPod on AI impact, multimodal translation, quality estimation and more with Unbabel CEO Vasco Pedro.
โ Questions
- Is Google Translate launching adaptive machine translation?
- How to set up and evaluate post-editing into languages you donโt know?
- What app provides accurate translations into Wolof?
- Does Rozetta support Persian?
- What are some machine translators similar to Ichigo Manga Translator?
More questions from the community โ
โฐ๏ธ Deadlines
- EAMT 2024 call for workshops - 31 January
- 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
๐ Events
- Hybrid translation โ AI efficiency, human quality (Europe, Africa and Asia time) - 31 January - online ๐
- Hybrid translation โ AI efficiency, human quality (Americas time) - 31 January - 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
โฆ And the fourth Machine Translate meetup will happen on 8 February. It will be about adaptive machine translation! Register here!
๐ป Jobs
- Machine Translation Product Owner at Lingsoft - Turku ๐ซ๐ฎ
- Machine Translation Lead Developer at Lingsoft - Turku ๐ซ๐ฎ
- (Still open) NLP Data Engineer at Yaraku - Tokyo ๐ฏ๐ต
- Machine Learning Manager at Allegro - Krakow ๐ต๐ฑ
- (Still open) Senior Research Engineer in Machine Learning at Allegro - Krakow ๐ต๐ฑ
- (3 openings) NLP Engineer at TikTok - Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ