March 2024 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from March 2024
๐ News and launches
- DeepL launches Arabic.
- DeepL launches glossary support for Korean.
- Pangeanic launches Echo Chat, a LLM that translates into the EU languages and more.
- Signagelive launches speech translation for videos with avatars created with Synthesia.
- L-Acoustics launches Mixhalo Translate, a speech-to-speech and speech-to-text translator for live events.
- Alorica launches ReVoLT, a real-time speech translator for CX.
- transcosmos launches Translingo SMART, a genAI MT tool that offers multilingual chat services.
- Brilliant Labs launches open-source glasses than can translate text and images in real time.
๐ Research
- GenTranslate: LLMs as generative multilingual speech and text translators.
- Jindลich Libovickรฝ highlighted MT and multilinguality papers from December 2023 and January 2024.
- CroissantLLM: A bilingual French-English language model.
- Gemini 1.5 Pro can deliver better MT quality for low-resource languages.
โ Questions
- How to translate Japanese in Latin letters with DeepL?
- Help building an engine based on transformers?
- Arabic-to-English(https://www.reddit.com/r/machinetranslation/comments/1ave7ds/mt_for_arabic_to_english) pretrained models?
- On what server can I run machine translation models?
- Help implementing a machine translation model for mobile devices?
- Is DQF an automatic or a manual framework?
๐๏ธ Podcasts
- The state-of-the-art in machine translation with Language Weaverโs VP of Machine Learning Bart Maczynski
โฐ๏ธ Deadlines
- 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
- AMTA 2024 call for tutorials and workshops - 6 June
- AMTA 2024 call for Best Thesis Award - 6 June
๐ Events
- 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-
We shared answers to community questions about adaptive machine translation from our recent community meetup. โฆ And the fifth Machine Translate meetup will happen soon. Register here!
๐ป Jobs
- Senior Researcher at Microsoft - Redmond ๐บ๐ธ
- Research Intern - Azure AI: Machine Translation at Microsoft - Redmond ๐บ๐ธ
- Applied Research Engineer in Energy Jobline - Raleigh ๐บ๐ธ
- MT and NLP Expert at an European Union Agency - Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ
- AI Program Manager at Welocalize - Buenos Aires ๐ฆ๐ท
- [Three positions] NLP Engineer (Machine Translation) at TikTok - Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
- [Three positions] NLP engineer at ByteDance - Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
- NLP Researcher - Machine Translation at ByteDance - Hong Kong ๐ญ๐ฐ
- NLP Researcher - Machine Translation at ByteDance - Guangdong ๐จ๐ณ
- Software Development Engineer (Machine Translation), ASIN Localization at Amazon - Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช
- [Five openings] Artificial Intelligence & Machine Translation Consultant at TransPerfect - Madrid ๐ช๐ธ, Barcelona ๐ช๐ธ, Porto ๐ต๐น, Lisbon ๐ต๐น, and Warsaw ๐ต๐ฑ
- Post-editor fellow at WIPO - Geneva ๐จ๐ญ