Tag: Neural Machine Translation
Language I/O announces $6.5 million in Series A funding
A woman-owned LSP, Language I/O CEO Heather Morgan Shoemaker told MultiLingual that this funding is a major milestone for the company, especially given the fact that female-identifying founders receive a slim minority — according to Inc., just 2.3% in 2020 — of venture capital (VC) funding.
VKontakte Sets Sights on English-speaking Audience, Launches NMT
VKontakte, a popular social media network in Russia and other Russian-speaking regions, has recently launched its own neural machine translation (NMT) model for translating...
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...
RWS Revives Language Weaver MT Platform
RWS announced today that it is reviving the Language Weaver brand of machine translation (MT) technology after acquiring Language Weaver’s parent company SDL in...
NEC and Sumitomo Develop App for Multilingual Workplaces
Sumitomo Mitsui Construction and the Japanese IT and electronics company NEC have partnered up to create a translation app that should allow for smoother...
One Hour Translation raises $10M, rebrands
Machine translation (MT) provider One Hour Translation announced a $10 million private equity (PE) round today, led by existing investor Fortissimo Capital. The company...
SDL Partners with Reynen Court
According to a report released by Business Wire, Reynen Court LLC platform has partnered with SDL Machine Translation. Reynen Court provides law firms and legal...