Vasco Pedro had always believed that, despite the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), getting machines to translate languages as well as professional translators do would always need a human in the ...

Translating from one language to another is hard, and creating a system that does it automatically is a major challenge, partly because there are just so many words, phrases and rules to deal with.

AI translation has transformed the way we communicate, breaking down language barriers in an unprecedented way. The sector’s global market size is projected to reach $12.3bn (€11.3bn) by 2026 — and ...

For language translation tasks, traditional machine translation systems like Google Translate and those based on Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) or Neural Machine Translation (NMT) have been ...

A team of computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University has won a $10.7 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to create an information retrieval and translation ...

Imagine you are in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language and your small child unexpectedly starts to have a fever seizure. You take them to the hospital, and the doctors use an online ...

Ingrid Piller receives funding from the Humboldt Foundation. Every day, millions of people start the day by posting a greeting on social media. None of them expect to be arrested for their friendly ...

Translating is difficult work, the more so the further two languages are from one another. French to Spanish? Not a problem. Ancient Greek to Esperanto? Considerably harder. But sign language is a ...

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The Army's Machine Foreign Language Translation System (MFLTS) punches through that barrier by providing language translation capabilities to individual Soldiers. Traditionally, an Army linguist, ...