Berlitz Develops AI-powered Language Learning Program
While professionals often use artificial intelligence (AI) in the language industry to produce translations from one language to another, it’s another thing completely to...
Can Neural Networks Really Understand Human Language?
Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have long been preoccupied with solving the issue of syntactic ambiguities in human language — in their recently released book...
The Search for Non-Binary Pronouns in Chinese
As businesses strive to reach wider audiences, gender-inclusive language has become imperative. Businesses have learned that any association to bigotry, racism, or sexism, however...
TikTok penalized for failing to properly localize terms and conditions in Dutch
TikTok, the short-form video app that has seen a dramatic, if not entirely uncontroversial, rise in popularity since its release in 2016, was hit...
Language Learning Model Earns Prestigious Statistics Award
The International Society for Bayesian Analysis has awarded the Mitchell Prize, a highly prestigious award in the field of statistics and Bayesian analysis, to...
Amazon Translate, Google Translate, Susceptible to Attacks
Toward the end of 2020, Amazon launched a Live Translation feature for its Alexa virtual assistant — according to a recent report from How-To...
Google Releases Dataset to Address Gender Bias
In an effort to address the gender bias in its neural machine translation (NMT) technologies, Google has recently released a new dataset that appears...
Researchers Decode Elephant Communication
Lauded by Scientific American as the “first ‘Google Translate’ for elephants,” a team of researchers at the non-profit animal conservation organization ElephantVoices has developed...
Zoom Explores Translation Options, Acquires MT Start-up
The digital communications platform Zoom announced that it is currently in the process of acquiring Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions (Kites), an artificial intelligence (AI)-focused...