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This month marks the 40th anniversary of FEW, an association supporting the professional and personal development of internationally minded women in Japan. As an organizational member of this non-profit, TBSJ is proud to celebrate this special birthday and the efforts of all the people who are supporting FEW in its ...

Society has long been concerned with how the adoption of machine translation (MT) might impact our jobs and livelihoods. Could the rapid developments in MT diminish the role of translators or, as the technology evolves further, negate the need for them completely? Once TBSJ began looking seriously at MT as ...

Given the speed at which machine translation (MT) is advancing, one topic that excites us at TBSJ is the future of this technology. And that is one of the key reasons why our MT experts, Paul O’Hare, CTO and co-founder, and Yury Sharshov, chief scientist, attended MT Summit 2021 —a ...

The overwhelming consensus at MT Summit 2021, an event held in August for professionals in the field of machine translation (MT), was that effective evaluation of MT output is key to improving its quality. Some 700 specialists from around the world, in sectors as varied as academia, business, and government, ...

In the past few years, as the training of machine translation (MT) models and the adoption of open-source tools and technologies have become much easier, the translation industry is focusing more attention on understanding the quality of MT output. Knowing the reliability and accuracy of your engines is critical to ...

In this article, the second in our series about the 2021 MT Summit, we’ll look at the current use of machine translation (MT)—more specifically, neural machine translation (NMT), which is the most popular technology in use today—based on presentations by speakers at the leading industry event and our work here ...

In late August, representatives of TBSJ were excited to attend MT Summit 2021, the 18th global biennial event for users, providers, and researchers of machine translation (MT). Held virtually, the five-day conference was attended by some of the biggest names in the industry including about 700 academic, industry, and government ...

With so many different machine translation (MT) software options on the market, it can be hard to understand everything that is on offer, much less evaluate the pros and cons of each one. Much work has been done to assess the quality of MT over the years. Examples include translating ...

At the beginning of this year, as we celebrated 10 years of TBSJ, we reflected on what we have achieved in translation and translation technology, and expressed our intent for technology to play a greater role in our business. TBSJ has had a strong focus on technology from the outset. ...