SlatorCon Silicon Valley 2024 in Pictures – slator.com

[ad_1] On September 5, 2024, over 150 language industry and technology leaders gathered at the Hotel Nia in Menlo Park for SlatorCon Silicon Valley 2024. Attendees, hailing from more than a dozen countries across four continents, actively participated, with many expressing the value of in-person discussions. The day was filled with insightful discussions and presentations, […]

XTM International Partners with HONYAKU Technologies to Expand Reach in APAC – slator.com

[ad_1] London, September 10, 2024 XTM International, a global leader in translation technology, is excited to announce a new exclusive reseller partnership in Japan with HONYAKU Technologies (HonTech). This partnership marks a significant milestone in XTM’s expansion strategy, ensuring that organizations across Japan and the broader APAC region have direct access to XTM’s cutting-edge localization […]

EasyTranslate Acquires Danish Rival World Translation – slator.com

[ad_1] On September 9, 2024, Danish language technology and services company EasyTranslate announced its acquisition of Tilst (Aarhus)-based World Translation. World Translation has been in business since 2005, five years longer than EasyTranslate, and its core services are translation and localization. EasyTranslate takes on World Translation’s team of 28 full-time employees, bringing the number of […]

Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models Outperform Baselines in Medical Translation – slator.com

[ad_1] In an August 29, 2024 paper, Miguel Rios from the University of Vienna explored how instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) can improve machine translation (MT) in specialized fields, particularly in the medical domain. Rios noted that while state-of-the-art LLMs have shown promising results for high-resource language pairs and domains, they often struggle with accuracy […]

Five Ways AI Is Changing the Translation Business – slator.com

[ad_1] Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven their usefulness for streamlining workflows, optimizing linguistic assets, and shortening quality assurance cycles, among many other applications. Through LLMs, AI is not just automating tasks, but also reshaping how language service providers (LSPs) and localization divisions at the enterprise operate, deliver value, and grow their businesses. These changes […]

Research Attempts to Bring Literary Machine Translation Closer to Human Quality – slator.com

[ad_1] While Dr. B.J. Woodstein, Professor, Translator, and Writer, emphasized on a SlatorPod in April 2024 the crucial role of human intervention in literary translation — particularly in handling linguistic nuances and cultural concepts that surpass the capabilities of AI or machine translation (MT) — researchers from Aalborg University and the University of Groningen set […]

Key Takeaways from SlatorCon Silicon Valley 2024 – slator.com

[ad_1] On September 5, 2024, over 150 language industry and technology leaders converged in Silicon Valley at the Hotel Nia in Menlo Park. The event had a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere, fostering both networking and reconnecting among attendees. Delegates from over a dozen countries and four continents highlighted the value of these in-person Slator events […]

Interpreters Unlimited Named One of America’s Top 100 Small Businesses – slator.com

[ad_1] Press Release: San Diego, CA – September 5, 2024 – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and CO—, its award-winning digital platform for small businesses, has announced that Interpreters Unlimited (IU) was chosen for the CO—100: America’s Top 100 Small Businesses list. IU was selected out of more than 14,000 companies by an esteemed panel of judges for its overall growth driven by cutting-edge […]