Communicating with others can be difficult, especially if not everyone in the conversation speaks the same language. Computer-based translation is easing a lot of that pain, but in general it still means a lot of cutting and pasting has to happen, along with interpreting possibly imperfect translations. Slated, a new keyboard now available for iOS 8, […]
Volunteers with Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an Los Angeles-based non-profit, work the phones to get Asian-American voters to the polls in California. The phone bank is part of the “Your Vote Matters” campaign, an effort to get 30,000 infrequent voters to cast their ballots. A Chinese restaurant during the lunch rush isn’t the first place you’d expect to find a […]
Stanford computer science graduate student Spence Green is first author on two studies about blending human and machine intelligence for language translations. Computer scientists at Stanford have created a language translation system that allows bilingual humans to translate text faster and more accurately than is currently possible. This hybrid approach, which blends human and machine […]
