TAUS
TAUS (Translation Automation User Society) is a language data network and automated translation company.[1][2]
Overview
TAUS focuses on democratizing data for AI and ML service companies.[2][3] The company provides Data-Enhanced Machine Translation (MT)[4] and MT evaluation services.[5][6]
History
Jaap van der Meer officially founded TAUS in 2005,[7] headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[8] In 2008, the TAUS Data Cloud was built to enable the uploading of translation data.[7] TAUS Data Association was formed by a group of 40 founding members to share language data.[8]
In 2009, TAUS launched the Data Association platform, enabling the industry to improve term use, translation reuse, and MT output quality.[8] Later in 2011, TAUS became Translation Interoperability Watchdog and launched TAUS Labs.[8]
2019
In January, TAUS launched Matching Data, a technique for selecting language data for the training and tuning of machine translation (MT) engines.[9] The companies Dell, eBay, Google, Lionbridge, Microsoft, Oracle, RWS Moravia, and Welocalize have delegates on the TAUS Partner Foundation Board.[10]
In September 2019, TAUS welcomed Unbabel.[11] In July, the company collaborated with SYSTRAN, an AI-based translation technology.[12]
2020
In February, TAUS and the global law firm Baker McKenzie jointly published a corresponding guidance document, the Who Owns My Language Data white paper, co-authored by Wouter Seinen, Partner at Baker McKenzie, and Jaap van der Meer.[13][14]
In November, the company launched a Data Marketplace.[15][16] TAUS hosted the Virtual Data Summit.[8]
2021
In May, the company and SYSTRAN formed a strategic alliance to offer solutions to strengthen domain-specific machine translation training.[1]
In October, TAUS collaborated with Intento for the Intento 2021 State of Machine Translation Report by providing domain-specific language datasets to be used in their MT tests.[17]
2022
In January, TAUS launched Data-Enhanced Machine Translation (DEMT) on the TAUS Data Marketplace.[3][18] In June, TAUS published the TAUS DeMT Evaluation Report.[19]
Events
Since 2005, TAUS has run notable conferences, including the TAUS Executive Forum (Asia, 2006), TAUS User Conference (2009), the Translation Quality Evaluation Summit (Dublin, 2013),[8] TAUS Global Content Summit (New York, March 2019; Silicon Valley, April 2019),[20] TAUS Global Content Conference (Salt Lake City, June 2019),[21] TAUS Asia Conference (Singapore, October 2019),[22] and the Massively Multilingual Conference & Expo (San Jose, October 2022).[2]
Awards
- Recognized Representative Vendor in the Market Guide for AI-Enabled Translation Services, Gartner, 2020-2021.[6][23]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aslan, Şölen. "TAUS and SYSTRAN Form a Strategic Alliance to Address Domain-specific Machine Translation". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "TAUS Global Content Conference & Exhibits 2020". Tomedes. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Aslan, Şölen. "TAUS Launches Data-Enhanced Machine Translation". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ "DeMT™ Translate API - Machine Translation - TAUS - The Language Data Network". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ "DeMT™ Estimate API - Machine Translation Quality Estimation - TAUS - The Language Data Network". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Aslan, Şölen. "TAUS Named Representative Vendor in 2022 Gartner Market Guide for AI-Enabled Translation Services". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Cover Profile: Jaap van der Meer | MultiLingual Nov/Dec 2021". multilingual.com. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 "TAUS - About Us - TAUS - The Language Data Network". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Meer, Jaap van der. "TAUS Launches Matching Data". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Meer, Jaap van der. "TAUS Forms New Partner Foundation Board". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Panić, Milica. "Unbabel Joins TAUS Partner Board". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Systran (2019-07-08). "SYSTRAN Partners with Taus to Provide the SYSTRAN Marketplace Community with Gold Data to Train Domain-specific Neural Models". Slator. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ "Who owns my language data? | European Language Resource Coordination". lr-coordination.eu. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Aslan, Şölen. "TAUS and Baker McKenzie Publish White Paper on 'Who Owns My Language Data'". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ "TAUS Data Marketplace - Buy Or Sell Language Data - TAUS - The Language Data Network". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ "TAUS launches Data Marketplace – Global by Design". 2020-11-24. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Aslan, Şölen. "TAUS and Intento Collaborate for the Intento 2021 State of Machine Translation Report". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Aslan, Şölen. "TAUS MT Training Datasets Now Available on AWS Marketplace". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Aslan, Şölen. "TAUS Publishes TAUS DeMT™ Evaluation Report 2022". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ "TAUS New York speakers say translation's biggest problem isn't tech — it's people | MultiLingual". multilingual.com. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Meer, Anne-Maj van der. "wordly Wins TAUS Game Changer Innovation Contest 2019". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Meer, Anne-Maj van der. "Interpreter IO Wins TAUS Game Changer Innovation Contest at the TAUS Asia Conference 2019". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
- ↑ Aslan, Şölen. "TAUS Named as a Representative Vendor in Gartner Market Guide for AI Enabled Translation Services". www.taus.net. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
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