翻译技术速递Egypt Inks Machine Translation, NLP Deal with China’s iFlytek
埃墨机器翻译，NLP处理中科大讯飞
On July 22, 2020 via video conference, Chinese speech recognition and AI provider iFlytek inked a deal with the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.
The goal, to bolster R&D in natural language processing (NLP) and machine translation (MT), particularly in the Egyptian-Arabic and Chinese languages.
The project will be managed through the Ministry of Communications and IT’s Applied Innovation Center (AIC) in Egypt, will last for three years, and will seek to find solutions for translating Egyptian Arabic into Chinese dialects and vice versa, according to a report by online magazine Egypt Today.
The same report said the deal supports the Egyptian government’s plan to rebuild the country and will create 80 new job opportunities for specialists in the fields of linguistics and IT.
Slator previously reported on iFlytek’s USD 400m capital raise from state-owned actors in July 2019, indicating the Chinese government’s commitment and desire to keep a tight rein on AI development.
The government had appointed iFlytek two years prior to spearhead the country’s development in voice intelligence.
As mentioned, language translation did not seem to figure prominently in iFlytek’s capital raise at the time and was not specifically singled out as an area of investment in the company’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange filing.
This new NLP-MT agreement with the Egyptian government, however, indicates that language translation does indeed figure in iFlytek’s plans — as it does in China’s efforts to push into an emerging market through AI.
2020年7月22日，中国语音识别和AI提供商iFlytek通过视频会议与埃及通信和信息技术部签署了一项协议。
目标是加强自然语言处理（NLP）和机器翻译（MT）的研发，尤其是埃及阿拉伯语和中文语言的研发。
在线报告显示，该项目将由埃及通信部和IT部门的应用创新中心（AIC）进行管理，为期三年，并将寻求解决方案，将埃及阿拉伯语翻译成中文方言，反之亦然。 杂志《今日埃及》。
同一份报告还说，这笔交易支持埃及政府的重建计划，并将为语言学和IT领域的专家创造80个新的就业机会。
Slator此前报道了iFlytek在2019年7月从国有企业那里筹集了4亿美元的资金，这表明中国政府的承诺和愿望将严格控制人工智能的发展。
政府在领导语音智能发展的两年前任命了iFlytek。
如前所述，语言翻译在iFlytek当时的融资中似乎并不占主导地位，并且在该公司向深圳证券交易所提交的文件中并未明确地列为投资领域。
但是，与埃及政府达成的这一新的NLP-MT协议表明，语言翻译确实在iFlytek的计划中发挥了作用-就像中国通过AI进入新兴市场的努力一样。
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