On March 1-2, 2017, the 33rd LocWorld was held in Shenzhen, China. This year's event followed the theme of "Continuous Delivery" and featured eight topics including Advanced Localization Management, Global Network and Translation Automation. More than 500 representatives from industry giants such as Google, Alibaba and IBM attended the event. On March 2, at the sub-forum "Future of Language Service under AI", Guoqing YAN, GTCOM (Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd.) Overseas Business Director, delivered a keynote speech on "AI + MT & Big Data—the Globalization Enabler for Business."

Guoqing YAN, GTCOM Overseas Business Director, addresses the meeting

According to Mr. Yan, when news and information gathered from all parts of the world are communicated in a cross-language, real-time and big data manner, enterprises during their globalization process are facing with two challenges: How to break the language barriers and acquire real-time data across the world to make prompt decisions. In response to these challenges, as Mr. Yan noted, GTCOM has built up the YeeCloud and YeeSight platforms featuring language and big data analytical capabilities for global users. YeeCloud is designed to meet the needs of users for higher translation accuracy and efficiency via human and machine translation, open API, multi-language tools and other technologies, while YeeSight is built on millions of data sources in more than 60 languages from independent domain websites across more than 200 countries in the world, with more than 30 million daily updates of news data, more than 500 million social media data and EB level global Internet-based open texts and multi-media data. With massive, accurate cross-language big data, YeeSight offers various customized big data solutions for users. As for enterprises, YeeSight gives insights into the path of news dissemination, trends of products and technologies, target groups and markets, as well as the marketing strategies of competitors. It also warns the potential risks in the market for enterprises to promptly set out or adjust their development strategies and achieve sustainable growth of profits.

Sub-forum of LocWorld 2017

At this year's LocWorld, GTCOM has made insightful speeches on AI (Artificial Intelligence) and big data, which brought huge opportunities to the guests present in terms of the development of the language industry. GTCOM will channel their future effort into providing global users with more intelligent language processing services based on language big data and cloud computing technologies and partnering with their industry counterparts to satisfy the development needs of global business market.