Researchers Present DOLFIN, a New Test Set for AI Translation for Financial Content – slator.com

On February 5, 2025, a team of researchers from Grenoble Alpes University and Lingua Custodia, a France-based company specializing in AI and natural language processing (NLP) for the finance sector, introduced DOLFIN, a new test set designed to evaluate document-level machine translation (MT) in the financial domain. The researchers say that the financial domain presents […]
Auto industry suggests trade agreements for exports

ISLAMABAD: Major automotive industry players in Pakistan have announced plans to start exporting locally assembled and manufactured vehicles. Industry sources claim that trade agreements with importing countries are needed to boost vehicle exports. Export is also a requirement under the auto policy 2021-2026 Stakeholders of the auto industry, including major players such as Indus […]
Enter OpenEuroLLM, an ‘Open, Compliant, Diverse’ Series of Foundation Models – slator.com

On February 3, 2025, the OpenEuroLLM project officially announced its launch as an AI collaborative that brings together 20 organizations, including 11 universities, five private companies, and four High Performance Computing (HPC) centers in the EU. Coordinated by Charles University and AMD Silo AI, the project’s main objective is to develop multilingual, foundation large language […]
Interview: Fan And Professional Translators Speak Out On Western Localization Issues And The Current State Of The English Manga Industry

Source: My Dress-Up Darling Chapter 3 (2018), Square Enix. The recent saga of Seven Seas’ intentional mistranslation of I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend Into a Girl has brought more attention than ever to the growing trend of Western localizers erasing a Japanese artist’s original work in favor of pushing their own personal social […]
Alibaba Launches ‘Completely Revamped’ Translation Infrastructure – slator.com

Hangzhou (China)-based e-commerce and tech conglomerate Alibaba has announced that it has released a proprietary large language model (LLM) that is “better than products offered by Google, DeepL, and ChatGPT.” Shots fired. The proprietary LLM — known as “Marco MT” — is to be deployed across Alibaba’s existing translation offering launched last year to small […]
‘Don’t Be Too Scared of LLMs’, Machine Translation Pioneers Caution at AMTA – slator.com

Since its first conference, in 1994, the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), the North American branch of the International Association for Machine Translation, has aimed to bring together machine translation (MT) researchers and buyers to talk shop and explore the challenges, and opportunities, of the field. In October 2024, AMTA hosted its […]
Google Finds ‘Refusal to Translate’ Most Common Form of LLM Verbosity – slator.com

In an October 1, 2024 paper, researchers from Google identified a key challenge in evaluating large language models (LLMs) for machine translation (MT): verbosity. The term verbosity refers to instances where LLMs offer reasoning insights behind their translation choices, provide multiple translations, or even refuse to translate certain content. The researchers explained that, unlike traditional […]
Localization Tech Trailblazer Alon Lavie joins Phrase as VP of AI Research

Phrase, the global leader in cloud-based localization software, today announced the appointment of localization industry leading authority Dr. Alon Lavie as its new Vice President of AI Research. Dr. Lavie will be joined by an expert team of machine learning engineers with whom he has worked for decades across different organizations. He and the team […]
Global Terminology Leader Kaleidoscope Opens US Branch – slator.com

Seattle, Washington – October 1st, 2024. Kaleidoscope, the Vienna-based pioneers in terminology and global content solutions, announced the launch of their new US office as North American businesses’ interest in their products and expertise continues to grow. AI is transforming content creation and localization, making both processes faster, smarter, and more accessible than ever before. […]
Microsoft and Johns Hopkins Unveil Multilingual AI Translation Model for 50 Languages – slator.com

In an October 4, 2024 paper, researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Microsoft, introduced X-ALMA, a large language model (LLM)-based multilingual translation model that delivers “top-tier performance” across 50 languages, regardless of resource availability. While many multilingual LLMs attempt to support hundreds of languages, they often struggle to maintain quality, especially for mid- and low-resource […]