AWS on Using Translation Memory for Better Contextual AI Translation – slator.com

On January 7, 2025, Narcisse Zekpa and Ajeeb Peter published an article on the AWS Machine Learning Blog titled “Evaluate large language models for your machine translation tasks on AWS.” This is the latest in a series of “how to” articles intended to assist AWS’s customers with diverse tasks.  The article describes a way to […]

AI Upskilling #4 — Post-Editing and AI Translation – slator.com

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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 […]

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 […]

Software Localization Market Size, Share | Forecast

Software Localization Market Statistics, 2032 The global software localization market was valued at $5.9 billion in 2022, and is projected to reach $15.6 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 10.6% from 2023 to 2032. Software localization refers to the process of adapting software applications, websites, or digital content to meet the linguistic, cultural, […]

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 […]

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 […]