No time to read all tweets, scoops, blogs? Here is a summary of what we think are the Top Ten LT stories of the month, selected by our LangTechNews editor Andrew Joscelyne. Enjoy – and if you have a news-worthy story, contact us.
- Nordic Translation Land-grab: Semanticx Bought Out Textminded
- RAVN, a UK legal AI company (NLP & text analytics etc.) snapped up by a US company
- Could politics influence the LT market? You bet. Brexit has triggered a language learning boom in the UK
- EU: If the EC can call a meeting on Internet of Energy interoperability, then it could try Multilingual Digital Market Interoperability next time
- Market research company KLAS analyses the market for NLP solutions in healthcare
- Research: We know that digital really means treating everything like a string of letters. Now a research team at Princeton has delivered a “text editor” for audio files
- Opportunity: TV media Euronews is stepping up its multilingual footprint to maintain a “multicultural” perspective on the continent’s activities. Technology could surely help accelerate this.
- Most popular LTi tweet of the month: Using NLP to predict film ratings from social media
- Machine Learning: Handy roundup of the latest on Neural MT advances
- Text to Speech has been making a noise: Irish TTS company Voysis has hired a Google expert. Meanwhile market analysts claim that the TTS market will be worth $3.3B by 2022. Is that a lot of a little?
