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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community that develops standards to ensure the long-term growth of the web, has launched the Internationalization Initiative to further internationalize the web. The initiative is intended to attract participation in the form of s

Translation apps are improving fast , but they’re still not perfect, particularly for minority languages. Can AI and deep neural networks help smooth out the glitches? During the World Cup in Russia there was a sharp rise in the use of Google Translate, Google reported, as footb

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino had a interesting challenge with his interpreter at his news conference ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League match against Barcelona at Wembley. Argentine Pochettino’s native tongue is Spanish and having answered questions in English,

More than 20% of US residents speak a language other than English at home, a recent American Community Survey has found, and this percentage has almost doubled since 1980. In real terms, 66.6 million US residents now speak a language other than English at home and this number has doub

Unsupervised machine translation at Facebook: Researchers at Facebook have been honing a technique that may help the social media platform learn to translate between rare pairs of languages in the future. Translations between popular languages like English to French or German to Spani