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Games: RetroArch adds tool for Japanese to English

All the nostalgic gamer ever wanted for Christmas (or birthday or any day of the week) was a good translator.

Sep 04, 2019 weblog

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A new approach for unsupervised paraphrasing without translation

In recent years, researchers have been trying to develop methods for automatic paraphrasing, which essentially entails the automated abstraction of semantic content from text. So far, approaches that rely on machine translation ...

Jun 11, 2019 feature

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Machine learning reduces language barriers in global trade, research shows

Machine learning and artificial intelligence have exploded onto the scene in recent years, offering the hope of greater business efficiency. At the same time, researchers have found virtually no empirical evidence supporting ...

May 15, 2019

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New technology breaks through sign language barriers

Opportunities once distant to the hard-of-hearing community will become a reality with a breakthrough sign language translator. Engineers from Michigan State University developed and patented a technology that – unlike ...

Feb 15, 2019

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Putting neural networks under the microscope

Researchers from MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) are putting the machine-learning systems known as neural networks under the microscope.

Feb 01, 2019

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Bible helps researchers perfect translation algorithms

In search of inspiration for improving computer-based text translators, researchers at Dartmouth College turned to the Bible for guidance. The result is an algorithm trained on various versions of the sacred texts that can ...

Oct 23, 2018

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How machine learning can break down language and trade barriers

Steep tariffs, challenging geography, government subsidies, and restrictive quotas come to mind when we think about the barriers to international trade. But there are lots of different languages in the world, and translation ...

Sep 12, 2018

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Using multi-task learning for low-latency speech translation

Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in Germany, have recently applied multi-task machine learning to low-latency neural speech translation. Their study, which was pre-published on ArXiv, addresses ...

Aug 13, 2018 feature

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Chinese to English translating: Not human, but exceptional

Microsoft announced Wednesday that its labs have developed an AI machine translation system that can translate from Chinese to English with the same accuracy as can a human. The researchers are at Asia and U.S. labs of Microsoft.

Mar 15, 2018 weblog

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Technique illuminates the inner workings of artificial-intelligence systems that process language

Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in artificial intelligence, including speech-recognition and ...

Dec 11, 2017

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Google Brain posse takes neural network approach to translation

(Tech Xplore)—The closer we can get a machine translation to be on par with expert human translation, the happier lots of people struggling with translations will be.

Apr 08, 2017 weblog

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Has auto-translation software finally stopped being so useless?

If you've ever put a phrase into an online translator and then laughed at the garbled results, your fun might be coming to an end. Google claimed last week to have eradicated 80% of the errors made by its translation software.

Oct 04, 2016

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Quality of sentence leaps turns corner thanks to newly announced Google machine translation system

(Tech Xplore)—Cutesy headlines are not always appreciated as some readers just want the facts without smirks and giggles. Nonetheless, the headline in this week's Engadget was both funny and quite descriptive: "Google's ...

Sep 29, 2016 weblog

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