MT Meetup #5: The Present and Future of MT

We are pleased to announce our fifth MT Meetup in Zurich on 28 October 2019. 70 seats are available, please RSVP on our Meetup site.

MT MEETUP #5: THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF MT

Talk 1:

APPLYING MACHINE TRANSLATION AT SCALE: LESSONS LEARNED

Speakers: Diego Bartolome, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Moritz Aemisegger, Senior Director, Business Development at TransPerfect

MT is today a tool used widely in the translation world to achieve gains in terms of turnaround time and cost. However, its application requires the alignment of technology with people and processes to ensure that quality is not decreased. In this presentation, TransPerfect will show how MT is applied across a wide variety of industries and content types, showing the lessons learned during the journey and the gains that can be achieved.

Talk 2: CURRENT HOT TOPICS IN THE MACHINE TRANSLATION RESEARCH COMMUNITY

Speaker: Mathias Müller, lecturer and PhD candidate at University of Zurich

This talk will highlight areas of machine translation that the research community is currently most interested in. Meant as a no-nonsense overview of what machine translation researchers are writing and discussing.

Talk 3:

HOW THE LANGUAGE INDUSTRY IS RETOOLING FOR THE NEXT DECADE

Speaker: Florian Faes, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Slator

Key 2019 trends that will shape 2020 as NLP and MT is productized and investors rediscover their appetite for the language industry.