BEIJING, Nov. 8, 2018
/PRNewswire/ -- Sogou Inc. (NYSE: SOGO) ("Sogou" or "the Company"),
an innovator in search and a leader in China's internet industry, today announced
that the Company's co-developed Speech Translation System ranked
first in the Baseline Model of Spoken Language Translation (SLT) at
the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)
2018 that took place in Bruges, Belgium, October 29-30,
2018. Separately, two research papers co-authored by Sogou
Vice President, Jingfang Xu, and AI
researcher, Feifei Zhai, have been
presented at the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in
Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) held in Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 4.
Places first at IWSLT Spoken Language Translation
competition
Held yearly since 2004, IWSLT is one of the most influential
speech translation scientific workshops. In the SLT Baseline Model,
the Sogou-TIIC Speech Translation System ranked highest with 28.09
BLEU points, a common metric for measuring the accuracy of machine
translation, 1.6 BLEU points higher than the next company. Other
participants included iFlytek, Alibaba, Applications Technology
(AppTek) and the United States Air Force Research Laboratory
(AFRL). Sogou's Speech Translation System was developed in
collaboration with the Tiangong Institute for Intelligent Computing
(TIIC), an AI research institute jointly-established by Sogou and
Tsinghua University in 2016.
Yanfeng Wang, leader of Sogou's
Voice Interaction Technology Center which co-developed the speech translation
system used at IWSLT, said, "We are delighted to have won the
Baseline Model competition, the toughest global contest in speech
translation. These technological advances will soon be available as
updates to Sogou's machine simultaneous translation system, Sogou's
Smart Travel Translator, Smart Recording Translator and Sogou Input
Method's translation function."
Research papers presented at EMNLP
EMNLP is a leading conference in Natural Language Processing
(NLP) organized by SIGDAT, a special interest group at the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) that focuses on
linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP. Sogou is a
sponsor of the 2018 EMNLP conference.
The papers titled Improving the Transformer Translation Model
with Document-Level Context and Three Strategies to Improve
One-to-Many Multilingual Translation, present ways to improve
translation performance by feeding more contextual information to
translation machines, or by developing one-to-many multilingual
translation models, which are more efficient than the current
one-to-one translation models commonly used in the machine
translation industry.
Jingfang Xu, Sogou Vice
President, said, "Our research papers will help to improve the
accuracy of machine translation, putting us one step closer to
human-machine parity in translation. The updated Transformer
Translation Model means machines can now process information in
the context of the entire document, rather than
sentence-by-sentence or line-by-line, resulting in a better
translation. These advances will also be applied to Sogou's current
products, including Sogou's online translation tools and the Sogou
Smart Travel Translator."
Safe Harbor Statement
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currently expected that the Business Outlook will not be updated
until release of Sogou's next quarterly earnings announcement.
However, Sogou reserves the right to update its Business Outlook at
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involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We caution you that a
number of important factors could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement.
Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to,
intense competition in the market for search and search-related
services; our need to continually innovate and adapt in order to
grow our business; our reliance on Tencent platforms for a significant portion of
our user traffic; and uncertainty regarding the extent and reach of
PRC governmental regulation of sponsored search. Further
information regarding these and other risks is included in
Amendment No. 2 to Sogou's Registration Statement on Form F‑1
(Registration No. 333-220928) filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on November 6,
2017, and other documents Sogou files with or submits to the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Sogou
Sogou Inc. (NYSE: SOGO) is an innovator in search and a leader
in China's internet industry. With
a mission to make it easy to communicate and get information, Sogou
has grown to become the second largest search engine by mobile
queries and the fourth largest internet company by MAU in
China. Sogou has a wide range of
innovative products and services including the Sogou Input Method,
which is the largest Chinese language input software for both
mobile and PC. Sogou is also at the forefront of AI development and
has made significant breakthroughs in voice and image technologies,
machine translation, and Q&A, which have been successfully
integrated into our products and services.
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