September 2023 newsletter
News, jobs, community questions and more about machine translation from September 2023
๐ Launches
- Gmail mobile app adds native translation integration.
- ModernMT releases version 7.
- Lilt partners with CaptionHub for multilingual video content generation at large scale.
- Meta releases SeamlessM4T, a multimodal and multilingual translation model.
- Interprefy now supports two-way live translation.
- Amazon Translate enables language detection for real-time document translation.
- DeepL Pro is now available in South Korea.
More product and feature launches โ
๐๏ธ News
- Language I/O raises an $8M Series A.
- DeepL named to the 2023 Forbes Cloud 100.
๐ Research
- Study from KAIST and Deepmind proposes new approach to multilingual speech translation.
- Study from Logrus Global and the University of Manchester shows improved quality estimation via fine-tuning LLMs with post-editing data.
- Researchers from Google, Unbabel and more propose new way to auto-evaluate machine translation.
More product and feature launches โ
โ Questions
- Speech translation vendors or models?
- Paper extension for WMT23
- Is it possible to have an automatic Italian-Berber translation?
- Machine translation in WorldServer?
- Submitting a data paper for WMT23
More questions from the community โ
๐๏ธ Podcasts
- Source 2 Target podcast on The Machine Translation Literacy Project with Lynne Bowker
- SlatorPod on new trends in machine translation with Large Language Models with Longyue Wang (Tencent AI Lab)
โฐ๏ธ Deadlines
- WMT23 call for papers - 5 September
- International Journal on Natural Language Computing call for papers - 10 September
๐ Events
- MT Summit 2023 - 4 - 8 September - Macau ๐ฒ๐ด
- CoCo4MT 2023 - 4 - 5 September - Macau ๐ฒ๐ด
- Panel: Applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Localization - 13 September - Seattle ๐บ๐ธ
- Language Intelligence Summit - 21 - 22 September - Leipzig ๐ฉ๐ช and online ๐
- Panel: Accelerating translation with AI that scores AI - 21 September - online ๐
- Quality Estimation Workshop - 4 October - Salt Lake City, Utah ๐บ๐ธ
- TAUS Annual Conference 2023 - 4 - 6 October - Salt Lake City, Utah ๐บ๐ธ
- AMTA 2023 - 8 November - online ๐
- WMT23 - 6 - 7 December - Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
โฆ And the fourth Machine Translate meetup will happen soon. Register here!
๐ป Jobs
- Machine Translation Specialist at Datawords - Barcelona, Spain ๐ช๐ธ
- Machine Translation Manager at Datawords - Barcelona, Spain ๐ช๐ธ
- NLP Engineer (Machine Translation) at TikTok - Singapore, Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
- Research Assistant/Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh, Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
- (Two openings) Machine Translation Engineer Localization at Apple - Cupertino, CA ๐บ๐ธ
- Deep Learning Scientist, Machine Translation or Neural Speech Synthesis at Translated - Rome, Italy ๐ฎ๐น
- Blue Book translation traineeship at European Commission - Europe ๐ช๐บ
- Innovation Fellow at the Federal Chancellery - Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ