July 25, 2011. Mountain View, Austin, New York. Tilde has concluded visits to the headquarters of the top US IT companies. At the meetings with corporate management of Google, Dell and IBM Research Tilde presented cooperation opportunities in language technologies. Tilde visited these companies in the delegation of the Prime Minister of Latvia Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis who promoted cooperation in IT sector.
At the Google headquarters (Mountain View, CA) Tilde Chairman of the Board Andrejs Vasiljevs presented Tilde’s developments in language technologies and opportunities of the Language Shore initiative – collaboration network to advance machine translation and other technologies for smaller languages. Particular interest was about Tilde internal competition to surpass quality of the Google Translator. In just a few months Tilde was able to get better quality translation than this market leading translation engine. It was achieved by applying innovative combination of data-driven and knowledge-based methods.
At the meeting with Dell corporate management in Austin Tilde presented potential of language technologies to support global operations of global company. Andrejs Vasiljevs explained application areas of machine translation to make product and support information accessible for smaller language communities. He presented possibilities to develop custom MT systems that are adapted for a particular company. Tilde evaluation results show that application of MT in localization can provide at least 30% productivity increase and related cost reductions.
At IBM Watson Research Center (NY) discussions focused on frontiers in natural language processing and other research areas. IBM Research presented computer system Deep QA that can understand and answer natural language questions. This system was able to beat the best human competitors in Jeopardy game. Tilde told about importance to advance such technologies not only for English and few largest languages but also to expand them to smaller languages. Tilde presented large scale research projects to find new approaches in machine translation for smaller languages. Cooperation opportunities in Language Shore initiative were discussed.
