Amsterdam,  June 8, 2022 –  TAUS, a leading provider of human-powered language data for AI solutions, has published the TAUS DeMT™ Evaluation Report 2022. The report compares TAUS DeMT™ performance against available major machine translation engines in 8 language pairs for the eCommerce domain, 18 language pairs for the Medical/Pharma domain, and 4 language pairs for the Financial domain. This report’s findings are based on Polyglot Technology LLC’s independent analysis to benchmark the machine translation quality of DeMT™ relative to other major online machine translation providers.

AMSTERDAM, June 8, 2022 – TAUS, a leading provider of human-powered language data for AI solutions, announced today that it has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner Market Guide for AI-Enabled Translation Services 2022 report. 

Amsterdam, February 16, 2022 - TAUS, the one-stop language data shop, is pleased to announce that TAUS data products and data services are now available to users of Amazon Translate on the AWS Marketplace. This first step marks the beginning of continuous collaboration between TAUS and Amazon Translate. As of today, AWS customers can review and buy 30 bilingual corpora in the Ecommerce, Medical/pharmaceutical and Finance domains. The languages available are as follows:

Amsterdam, January 19, 2022 - TAUS, the one-stop language data shop established through deep knowledge of the language industry, globally sourced community talent, and in-house NLP expertise, launches a new service: Data-Enhanced Machine Translation (DEMT) on their Data Marketplace. 

Amsterdam, 11 November 2021- TAUS launches a new course on their eLearning Platform on language data management. The course gives a comprehensive overview of the language data for the AI sector. It comprises five modules covering extensively various language data for AI applications and language data services, the language data market and pricing, data bias, and ethics, as well as privacy and copyright concerns.

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Amsterdam, Paris - May 3, 2021 - TAUS and SYSTRAN announce that they have formed a strategic alliance. Both companies operate in the market of automated translation, but each of them brings a unique perspective and solution. TAUS specializes in language data that is needed to train and customize the translation engines, whereas SYSTRAN specializes in machine translation technology for professional users. By combining the expertise of the two, translation users will access a unique solution on the market. 

26 April 2021, Amsterdam and Berkeley - TAUS, a leader in language data services, and Intento, an expert in machine translation evaluation, enter into a strategic partnership to realize the full potential of MT technologies, creating an opportunity to train effective MT models. 

It’s been a long way since TAUS was founded in 2005 as a think tank with a mission to help businesses automate and innovate translations. The language industry and our customer base have evolved over the years, so we’ve evolved with them. 

1 February 2021, Amsterdam - TAUS, a pioneer in the language data space, announces that it has been recognized as a representative vendor in the Market Guide for AI Enabled Translation Services by Gartner, one of world's leading research and advisory companies.

November 5, 2020 - Amsterdam Today, TAUS is going live with the first release of the Data Marketplace. The Data Marketplace is a platform for all stakeholders in the global language and AI industries to trade, clean, cluster and curate language data. The development of the Data Marketplace is a collaborative project between TAUS, Translated, and FBK Trento and is co-financed by the European Union under the Connecting European Facility Program to disintermediate the language data supply chain by connecting data producers and consumers directly. 

Amsterdam, April 29, 2020 - TAUS, the language data network, announces changes in both the delivery and content of its events program. Due to the extended global travel restrictions for the remainder of 2020, TAUS will further postpone its largest conference in San Jose (California) until March 29-31, 2021. The Industry Leaders Forum that was scheduled to take place at the TAUS headquarters in Amsterdam on June 9 and 10 will become an innovative weeklong virtual conference aimed at delivering the blueprints for a Reinvention of Translation.

Amsterdam, 6 April 2020 - TAUS, the language data network, has published their new program for TAUS Events and TAUS Academy under the title of Massively Multilingual, or M2.

Amsterdam, 10 February 2020 - TAUS, a pioneer in the language data space, and Baker McKenzie, the global law firm, have jointly published the Who Owns My Language Data White Paper. The White Paper is co-authored by Wouter Seinen, Partner at Baker McKenzie and Jaap van der Meer, Founder, and Director at TAUS. This document provides a blueprint for managing language data ownership within the translation industry.

22 October 2019, Singapore - At the TAUS Asia Conference in Singapore this week, Interpreter IO has won the TAUS Game Changer Innovation Award 2019. Each year, TAUS invites those with a passion for innovation to take part in the TAUS Game Changer Innovation Contest to take the stage and wow the audience with their ideas or products. This acclaimed contest celebrates the best innovative solutions in the translation industry and is known for bringing strong publicity to its winners. This edition was specifically aimed at the many innovations taking place in the eastern part of the world.

Amsterdam, September 2019 - TAUS is delighted to announce that Unbabel joined the TAUS Partner Board. Together with eight of the largest stakeholders in the industry, Unbabel will navigate the TAUS roadmap and assist TAUS in fulfilling its mission to further expand the TAUS Language Data Network and strengthen its position as a source of data for business intelligence and translation automation.

Amsterdam, July 2019 – SYSTRAN and TAUS have agreed to collaborate on creating a solid supply of data and models for trainers and developers of machine translation engines. The newly released SYSTRAN Marketplace will integrate with the TAUS Matching Data Service and Library. This means that users of the SYSTRAN Marketplace will be able to easily expand their data coverage by running a clustered search in the TAUS Data Cloud or by using an already existing domain-specific corpus from the TAUS Matching Data Library.

28 June 2019, Salt Lake City - wordly has won the TAUS Game Changer Innovation Award 2019 at the TAUS Global Content Conference in Salt Lake City on 27 and 28 June. Each year, during its biggest annual event, TAUS invites those with passion for innovation to take part in the TAUS Game Changer Innovation Contest to take the stage and wow the audience with their ideas or products. This acclaimed contest celebrates the best innovative solutions in the translation industry and is known for bringing strong publicity to its winners.

Amsterdam, June 4, 2019 - On 27 May 2019, TAUS published the Transcreation Best Practices and Guidelines for the translation industry. TAUS Transcreation Best Practices and Guidelines is published with the hope of forming a useful basis for further, industry-wide discussion around the definitions and processes of transcreation. The processes and guidelines defined in this document will also provide the training material for an online course to be made available in the TAUS eLearning Platform with exclusive examples and practical exercises.

Amsterdam, January 14, 2019 - TAUS launches Matching Data: a new technique of selecting language data for the training and tuning of machine translation (MT) engines. This new approach is a perfect fit for the new generation of Neural MT, which is much more sensitive to the quality of the training data. Matching Data empowers MT developers as well as Language Service Providers to efficiently compile customized corpora for building their own domain-specific translation solutions based on an example data set.