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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Justice recently issued guidance encouraging federal agencies to use “artificial intelligence and machine translation to communicate with individuals who are limited English ...

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 ...

At a time when Americans remain divided over hot button issues like artificial intelligence and policing, some say new technology is helping officers break down barriers and connect with their ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...