The LT-LiDER Project Wants to Equip Language Experts to Remain Relevant – slator.com

The multinational LT-LiDER project (Language and Translation: Literacy in Digital Environments and Resources) turned a year old in December 2024. The project, which combines the efforts of leading European universities from five countries, teamed up with a general goal to prepare language and translation faculty and students for the AI age. LT-LiDER is funded in […]

Meet QueEn, a Large Language Model for Quechua-English Translation – slator.com

In a December 6, 2024 paper, researchers at the University of Georgia introduced QueEn, a large language model (LLM) tailored for Quechua-English translation. Quechua, also known as Runa Simi (the “language of the people”), is one of the most significant indigenous languages of the Americas. Once the administrative language of the Inca Empire, it remains […]

Is Machine Translation Post-Editing Tedious? – slator.com

The language industry will remember 2024 as bringing an interesting mix of rapid-fire innovations and developments, with some clear trends emerging on the technology side, including translation as a feature (TaaF), multimodal AI adoption, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications, and large language model (LLM) customization. The balance between human expertise and AI automation continued to […]