Tag: Canada
Canada to Invest $227.9 Million in Official Language Minority Communities
The investment signals the government’s commitment to preserving and promoting bilingualism, as well as to ensuring that all Canadians have access to vital services.
Vancouver Localization User Group Launches With Meetup on May 14th
The VLUG announces its inaugural meetup event, connecting professionals in the localization industry for collaboration and innovation.
Canada’s Northwest Territories opens up grant applications for Indigenous translators and interpreters
Over the course of the next eight months, the government of Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) will be accepting applications for grants toward the education and career development of Canadian translators and interpreters working in Indigenous languages.
Microsoft and Canadian government partner to create MT for indigenous languages
Microsoft Translator now offers Inuinnaqtun and a romanized version of Inuktitut, which were developed with the support of the government of Nunavut, Canada, and other community groups. Inuktitut, which is the most widely known and spoken dialect of the Inuktut language, was first added to Microsoft Translator in Jan. 2021. When it was first added to the platform, Microsoft Translator could only translate it using the native Inuktitut syllabary system.
Microsoft Adds Inuktitut, but is that good?
It's one thing to train a machine translation engine and quite another to continue improving it. This is Inuktitut speakers' concern.