In Latvia answers to questions about Covid-19 are provided by artificial intelligence

During the Covid-19 pandemic, it is vital to provide the public with convenient and fast access to trustworthy information. During March 2020 work began on the first and to date only chatbot in Latvia, which provides the public with 24 hour access to trustworthy information about Covid-19.   All the latest information about the Coronavirus […]

Machine Translation helps to support Georgia in dealing with COVID-19 pandemic

From September 27 to October 2, 2020, representatives from Tilde and Latvian Standard (LVS) went to Tbilisi, Georgia to visit the National Agency for Standards and Metrology of Georgia (GeoSTM) to implement the grant project “Standardization as a support tool for rapid response measures to the emergency situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia”.   One of the […]

EU Council Presidency Translator Disrupts Language Technology Landscape

Romania, Finland and Croatia, the recently concluded Trio Presidency of the Council of European Union, leverage their experience with EU Presidency Translator (PresidencyMT) as a successful proof of concept to further explore the capabilities of language technologies.   During the 18-month Council programme, the trio shared a common challenge of dealing with massive amounts of […]

German EU Council Presidency Translator is now available

Languages are a key part of our European identity and culture. Linguistic diversity is supported and celebrated as part of the EU’s motto “United in Diversity”. However, the EU alone has 24 official languages, which can lead to language barriers, hampering the free flow of ideas, information, commerce and culture. The German EU Council Presidency […]

Finland has concluded its Presidency of the European Union by setting a new record with the EU Presidency Translator: 12.7 million words translated in six months

Finland has set an excellent example to the rest of Europe by taking advantage of AI-powered neural machine translation (NMT) to facilitate and speed up multilingual communication during its Presidency of the EU Council from July 1 to December 31, 2019. Finland has set a new record for the EU Presidency Translator: 740 thousand translations […]