Patent news
Just before Christmas, Microsoft Research discreetly filed a patent for a data-driven type translation system:
An adaptive machine translation service for improving the performance of...
Translation in the blogosphere
How can translation automation be tapped for the online world of blogs to ensure that information and ideas circulate freely in dark times? Tim...
Multilingual scribes
There’s a meme going round about ‘amazing scribes’ at the recent ICANN meeting who transcribalated (don’t ask) spoken text onto screens. What attendees appeared...
Cross-lingual search engine
Need to search the web with your language as the search input and another language for the result? Check out Babelplex, where this link...
MT book of the event
For 45 €, you can buy Machine Translation: From Real Users to Research, the book of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine...
XLIFF explained
Rodolfo M. Raya has recently published a second article in his series on XML for localization.
This second part focuses on XML Localisation Interchange File...
New web terminology interface
Babeling, a French terminology engineering software developer, has just released Motilus, an interface to multi-database term queries over the web. Or as Babeling puts...
MT = mobile translation in Singapore
GistXL, an English (or Singlish) to Simplified Chinese SMS translation platform embedded in SingTel’s Singapore network, won a Merit Award in the recent...
Project to boost cross-lingual document interoperability
Thanks to Gary Price for this report on a European Commission/NSF project on “Quality of Service and Legitimacy in eGovernment,” a multi-institution initiative to...