Here are some thoughts from the past two days of the Idiom User Summit, in no particular order: – There was a lot of buzz around machine translation (MT). Both Systran and Language Weaver are here and there were (at …
The members of the Translation Automation User Society met recently and agreed to develop a business plan for hosting and sharing translation memories (TMs). TMs have historically been something that companies developed for their own internal use — to cut …
Lionbridge issued a press release today that says the company’s new translation management platform, Freeway/Logoport, was the fastest-growing translation management tool in 2006. Freeway is the Web-based front-end of the application and Logoport is the translation memory engine (I’m still …
Last week, I posted the article that I wrote about Language Weaver and their statistical machine translation software. While I was at the Language Weaver offices, I also had time to record a 10-minute interview with CEO Bryce Benjamin. I’ve …
Okay, so I finally got around to reviewing 2006 stats for Global by Design. My goal is to install a real-time “most popular” sidebar; until then, here are the most popular entries: Baidu vs. Google: Round Two The World According …
Statistical machine translation is an innovative way of automatically translating text from one language into another. It’s being used by Google, it’s being used in Iraq, and it’s being commercialized by a company called Language Weaver. I profiled this company …
Language Weaver, a machine translation (MT) software developer, has announced a $4 million VC infusion. This is just another sign that MT is inching closer to real-world/commercial applications. Slowly but surely we’re seeing companies make limited use of MT to …