New Open Source Tool – TM Cleaner

We are happy to announce Translation Memory (TM) Cleaner , a software for identifying the translation units in translation memories or parallel corpora that contains segments that are not translations of each other. TM Cleaner has the following features : 1. It is written in python and java. 2. It is hosted at github :

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Neural Machine Translation system at LISA

Our network was trained on a lot of data from the United Nations and the European Parliament, so these are the kind of sentences that it does well on. Give them a try! Economic growth has slowed down in recent years. The war in the Middle East is almost over. The European Parliament has decided

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RBMT summer school in Alacant

I’d like to announce that we are organising a summer school in free/open-source rule-based machine translation in Alacant from the 11th to the 22nd of July, 2016. The course will cover rule-based machine translation paradigms from direct translation to interlingua translation, the whole Vauquois pyramid! Practical work will be based on the following free/open-source systems:

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Startups: To Localize or Not to Localize?

Wells Fargo’s recent International Business Indicator Survey indicated that 69 percent of businesses in the U.S. are conducting business internationally and 54 percent of mid-size U.S. businesses see international markets as increasingly important to their financial success. But where does that leave startups and early-stage companies? Setting the startup stage We can all appreciate the

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Why Machine Translation is Not Good For Business in Costa Rica

In early 2015, Google released a significant upgrade of its Translate application. No longer content to offer translations of written text, the upgraded app now includes a visual translator and an audio translation function. Machine translation, particularly in the English – Spanish and Spanish – English language pairs, is often utilized by business owners in

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Exclusive: Amazon acquires Pittsburgh tech firm

Amazon.com Inc. has acquired a Pittsburgh-based developer of automated text translation software that counted PayPal and Dell Inc. among its customers. Financials were not disclosed. Safaba Translation Systems LLC, based in Squirrel Hill, is now known as Amazon Machine Translation R&D Group, according to the LinkedIn profile of its co-founder and chief technology officer, Alon

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2014 EAMT Best Thesis Award

The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology. The EAMT invites entries for its fifth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related

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Of course. There is now a Hacker News for deep learning

Machine learning startup Startup.ML today unveiled a new website called Deep Learning News. It’s a place to go to find information online about deep learning, which is an increasingly trendy type of artificial intelligence. The new site is in the style of Hacker News, a popular online water cooler for programmers from prominent Silicon Valley

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first Call for Participation of DL4MT Winter School

First Call For Participation: DL4MT Winter School Deep Learning for Machine Translation 18-24 October 2015, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland http://dl4mt.computing.dcu.ie/ We would like to announce the Deep Learning For Machine Translation (DL4MT) Winter School at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. Over the last several years, Deep learning (DL) has been the driving force behind

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first Call for Participation of DL4MT Winter School

First Call For Participation: DL4MT Winter School Deep Learning for Machine Translation * 18-24 October 2015, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland * http://dl4mt.computing.dcu.ie/ We would like to announce the Deep Learning For Machine Translation (DL4MT) Winter School at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. Over the last several years, Deep learning (DL) has been the driving

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