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Language Weaver Pro is now available

Ollie Stott — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:12:00 GMT

Hi all, I'm happy to announce the release of Language Weaver Pro, our latest translation model built in Collaboration with our partners at Cohere. Language Weaver Pro is a 100+ billion parameter model built specifically for the purpose of tran...(read more)

Language Weaver Live 2023

Ollie Stott — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:03:00 GMT

Join industry peers, experts and colleagues for an informative half-day virtual forum where they'll share insights on solving today’s multilingual challenges with breakthrough AI advances. The forum will address key topics and trends for...(read more)

The Global Data Explosion in the Legal Industry

Kirti Vashee — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:09:00 GMT

As we consider and look at the various forces impacting the legal industry today, we see several ongoing trends which are increasingly demanding more attention from both inside and outside counsel. These forces are: The Digital Data Momentum Incre...(read more)

Latest SDL Machine Translation Sets New Standard as Essential Business Technology Capable of Instantly Translating Any Type of Content

Lennert Fransen — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:33:00 GMT

Removes Language Barriers by Enabling Brands to Apply Neural Machine Translation (NMT) to Customer Experience, Analytics, eDiscovery, Internal Communications and More October 10, 2019, Maidenhead, U.K. - https://www.sdl.com/about/n...(read more)

The Real Problems with Neural Machine Translation

Kirti Vashee — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:58:00 GMT

TLDR: No! Your Machine Translation Model is not “prophesying”, but let’s look at the six major issues with neural machine translation (NMT).(read more)

A Detailed study of Google Translate Performance across 103 language cobinations

Kirti Vashee — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 19:55:00 GMT

An In-Depth Study of Google Translate for 103 Languages(read more)

Is the Future of BLEU Getting Paler?

Kirti Vashee — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:29:00 GMT

There is little debate: the machine translation research and practitioner communities are in a funk about BLEU. From recent webinars to professional interviews and scholarly publications, BLEU is being called on the carpet for its technical shortcomi...(read more)

Language RPA: The Coming of Age for Language Technologies

Kirti Vashee — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:22:00 GMT

From performing life-saving surgery to delivering fast food, robots seem to be popping up everywhere these days. But, I bet you haven’t thought about language robots or heard about “Language RPA” until now. And although you’ve...(read more)

Language RPA: The Coming of Age for Language Technologies

Kirti Vashee — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:22:00 GMT

The Answer to Writer's Block?

Kirti Vashee — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:15:00 GMT

Writer’s block is big enough of an issue to warrant its own movie genre. It’s true. Think of the many movies that feature the blank page. Consider these classics. The Shining. Who can forget that face? The draw of that creepy hotel was t...(read more)

Can Adaptable Machine Translation Drive Your Digital Transformation?

Kirti Vashee — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:29:00 GMT

We live in an era where the issue of digital transformation is increasingly recognized as a primary concern, and a key focus of executive management teams in global enterprises. The stakes are high for businesses that fail to embrace change. Since 20...(read more)

The Challenge of using Open Source MT

Kirti Vashee — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:13:00 GMT

MT is considered one of the most difficult problems in the general Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning field. The so-called AI-complete problems are as difficult to solve as the central artificial intelligence problem its...(read more)

Understanding MT Quality: What Really Matters?

Kirti Vashee — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:23:00 GMT

There is a longer version of this blog post at https://kv-emptypages.blogspot.com/2019/04/understanding-mt-quality-what-really.html This is the second post in our posts series on machine translation quality. The first one focused on BLEU scores, wh...(read more)

Understanding MT Quality - BLEU Scores

Kirti Vashee — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:05:00 GMT

There is a longer version of this post with more graphics and text at https://kv-emptypages.blogspot.com/2019/04/understanding-mt-quality-bleu-scores.html This is the first in a series of posts discussing various aspects of MT quality from the cont...(read more)

SDL Enterprise Translation Server (ETS) 8.3 General Availability

Jane Hendricks (former member) — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:47:00 GMT

ETS 8.3 is in market! Please be sure to review the documentation and let us know what you think about the updates in this release. ETS 8.3 is introducing 3 major new features: Windows Support for NMT for greater deployment flexibili...(read more)