The Week in Review: June 2, 2023
This week was a big one for generative AI and large language models.
Bloomberg is predicting that the artificial intelligence (AI) market will grow to...
Celebrating the next generation of language professionals: The MIIS Class of...
Around this time of year, it’s not a rare sight to see folks in a cap and gown posing for a photo shoot.
That’s because...
The Week in Review: May 19, 2023
Privacy concerns have plagued large language models (LLMs) and generative AI tools for quite a while now — Apple even banned its employees from using...
The Week in Review: May 12, 2023
A couple of days after Columbia University awarded the Pulitzer Prize, another, more translation-centric literary award was being granted: The French-American Foundation’s 2023 Translation...
The Week in Review: May 5, 2023
If this first week of May is any indicator of how the rest of the month will be, it looks like it’s going to...
The Week in Review: April 28, 2023
If you enjoyed our November 2022 exploration of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, then this first story on our radar is for you: a team of...
Researchers launch Grambank, shed light on language loss
You’ve likely heard the oft-cited statistic that one language dies every 40 days — a study published earlier this month aims to shed some...
The presence of Catalan in language learning apps
Catalan, my language, is again in a sadly paradoxical situation. While it is spoken by 10 million people in the world, is native in parts of four European states, and is the only language with official status in Andorra —which means it is recognized by the United Nations— it suffers discrimination that is difficult to understand either in qualitative or quantitative terms.
The Week in Review: April 21, 2023
Over the next five years, Taiwan plans to put nearly $1 billion toward English education in the country. It’s a pretty hefty sum of...