AdaptiveCon 2024: The Premier Event for Cutting-Edge Website Translation Technology – slator.com

[ad_1] COCONUT CREEK, FL. – MotionPoint, the leading website translation and localization platform, announces the official date of AdaptiveCon 2024! The ultimate event for exploring the latest breakthroughs in translation technology for websites will take place virtually for free on August 7th, 2024, at 12 PM ET. Why Attend AdaptiveCon 2024: Cutting-Edge Technology Revealed: MotionPoint […]

Cybersecurity Incidents Impact One in Seven Language Service Providers – slator.com

[ad_1] A major IT outage on July 19, 2024, highlighted the cybersecurity measures that global companies employ to guard against cyber incidents. The outage was not the result of a cyberattack. Rather, it stemmed from a routine software update by a major US cybersecurity company that conflicted with Microsoft operating systems, leading to widespread disruption. […]

PR Wars over LLM Translation Quality – slator.com

[ad_1] Florian and Esther discuss the language industry news of the week, with a nearly USD 4m settlement involving Language Line Services and ongoing disputes in Canada, where freelance interpreters are protesting against unpaid breaks during debates. Florian highlights a YouTube video about UN simultaneous interpreting and the rigorous standards and working conditions for UN […]

How the Media Covers the AI vs Translators Debate – slator.com

[ad_1] Halfway through 2024, suggesting AI as the year’s buzzword is beyond cliché. Still, the headlines just keep coming, barely keeping up with the pace of new product releases and demos. Translation is one of the most-referenced professions in media coverage of AI’s potential impact. It begs the question: What does mainstream media — outside […]

Interpreters Reject Procurement Agreement Extension in Canada – slator.com

[ad_1] According to a press release shared with Slator by the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC Canada), 75% of accredited freelance official language interpreters who work in parliament have refused to sign an extension of the procurement arrangement they entered into last year. The contract expired on June 30th, 2024.  Interpreters take issue with […]

Lingua Custodia, Unbabel, Tilde, Textgain Win EC’s Large AI Grand Challenge – slator.com

[ad_1] The European Commission (EC) announced on June 26, 2024, the winners of the Large AI Grand Challenge contest, launched in 2023 as part of the European Union (EU) AI-BOOST project. AI-innovative startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were invited to submit proposals from November 16, 2023, to February 13, 2024. Participating companies were […]

How ‘Pseudo-Refinement Triplets’ Can Improve Large Language Models in Translation – slator.com

[ad_1] In a June 22, 2024 paper, Zhaopeng Feng, Ruizhe Chen, Zijie Meng, and Zuozhu Liu from Zhejiang University, along with Yan Zhang from Tencent, presented “Ladder,” a model-agnostic and cost-effective tool designed to boost the performance of large language models (LLMs) in machine translation (MT).  Unlike conventional methods that require extensive computing resources, significant […]

Study Finds Strong Correlation Between Expert and GPT-3.5 Interpreting Evaluations – slator.com

[ad_1] In a paper for the 2024 conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), interpreting technology researchers Xiaoman Wang (University of Leeds) and Claudio Fantinuoli (University of Mainz and CTO at Kudo) find that prompting Open AI’s GPT-3.5 to assess the quality of translated speech approximates human evaluations. The research explores the correlation […]

Argo Translation Partners With Language I/O to Eliminate Language Barriers on Demand – slator.com

[ad_1] The strategic partnership will allow for real-time AI translations backed by an exceptional customer service team. GLENVIEW, Ill., July 15, 2024 – Argo Translation, a Chicago-based language services company, announced today its partnership with Language I/O, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) translation technology provider. The partnership enables Argo Translation to resell Language I/O’s cutting-edge […]