May 2024 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from May 2024
๐๏ธ News
- Macau is launching an AI chatbox for tourists.
- Reddit is launching site-wide machine translation into French.
- Canadaโs translation bureau suggests MT to meet high demand.
๐ Launches
- DeepL launches document translation.
- OpenAI launches multilingual GenAI voice engine.
- Galaxy AI launches Arabic , Indonesian and Russian.
- Microsoft adds Translation button to Copilot.
- Viva Translate launches app for live translating online meetings.
- Translated launches free adaptive MT in Matecat.
- META , Microsoft , Johns Hopkins University and more launch the Open Language Data Initiative to build parallel datasets across many languages.
- Interprefy launches live translation for in-person meetings.
- Onemeta reduces MT and transcription speed to less than 200 milliseconds.
- Booz Allen prototypes an augmented reality real-time language translation tool.
๐ Research
- Is context helpful for chat translation evaluation ?
- Jindลich Libovickรฝ highlighted MT and multilinguality papers from April 2024.
โ Questions
- How do I build and train an LLM for East African languages and dialects?
- How do I evaluate MT quality ?
- Is Claude 3 good at low-resource languages?
- How can I speed back-translation?
- Integration of adaptive machine translation in TMS ?
- Translating Powepoint presentations?
- Literature on grokking in MT ?
- genAI wrappers for translation?
- Translating Google Slides integrated on Salesforce ?
- Google Translate shortcut on iPhone 15.
๐๏ธ Podcast and videos
- Low-resource machine translation with XRI Global founder and CEO Daniel Wilson
- The Evolution of Translation Efficiency with ModelFront CEO and Co-founder Adam Bittlingmayer
๐ฌ Interviews
- Deploying AI tools at NATO with NATO Translation Tool and Content Management Coordinator Audrey Possemiers
- Rise, crisis and future of DeepL with DeepL founder and CEO Jaroslaw Kutylowski
โฐ๏ธ Deadlines
- NETTT 2024 calls for papers - 5 June
- 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
- WMT24 call for papers - 12 August
๐ Events
- 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
- WMT24 - 12 - November - Miami ๐บ๐ธ
โฆ And the fifth Machine Translate meetup will happen soon. Register here!
๐ป Jobs
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer at LanguageWire - Remote ๐ต๐น
- Software Development Engineer (Machine Translation) at Amazon - Berlin ๐ฉ๐ช
- Machine Translation Coordinator at CQ fluency - Remote ๐ฆ๐ท and ๐จ๐ด
- Machine Translation Software Engineer at Praxis Engineering - Laurel ๐บ๐ธ
- (closed) Engineering Manager , Machine Translation at Reddit - Remote ๐บ๐ธ