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Cybersecurity has never been so topical in today’s increasingly challenging cyber-climate. Cyberattacks on organizations increased 50% year-on-year in 2021, according to research by Check Point. Of those cyberattacks, more than 80% involved phishing (whereby the attacker masquerades as a trusted entity to dupe the victim into opening an email or ...

As TBSJ continues to go from strength to strength , its internal and external relationships have never been more important. We asked Sarah Bull, TBSJ’s chief relationship officer, what she brings to the role and how the organization plans to navigate the challenges of its rapid growth while embracing its ...

Now, more than 18 months into the pandemic, companies are operating with various degrees of remote work. While some have returned to the office, others are following a rotation system of in-office and at-home work. Still others continue teleworking as they have done since the first remote-work requests. Companies managing ...

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 ...