It's the start of 2021 - a time to look back and a time to look ahead. This time of year, we all love a good list. Whether it's a retrospective on things that have happened in the previous 12 months, or predictions about what's going to happen in the coming year, they are staple of articles far and wide, and this one will be no exception!But rather than doing one or the other, we are going to do a little bit of both. We will take a look back at three key developments in the field of machine translation (MT) in 2020, and what we think we'll see happen in 2021. From a high level, MT research and development continued to advance at pace in 2020, if not quite at the pace of previous years after the initial flurry of activity around neural MT. In addition to the academic mainstays, research has continued to be prominent at big tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, with Apple recently joining the fray. Language service providers have also been investing in machine translation technology to bring it in-house, with some notable M&A activity over the past 12 months.
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