Imminent Research Grants for Language and AI Research

Imminent Research Grants for Language and AI Research is sponsored by Translated. Funds original research projects exploring the advanced frontiers in language services, with a focus on making it easier for everyone in a multilingual world to understand and be understood.

Apply for your grants - Imminent - Translated's Research Center $100,000 to Fund Language Technology Innovators Imminent was founded to help innovators who share the goal of making it easier for everyone living in our multilingual world to understand and be understood by everyone else.

Each year, Imminent allocates $100,000 to fund five original research projects that explore the most advanced frontiers in the world of language services, providing grants of $20,000 each. Imminent expects the call to appeal to startuppers, researchers, innovators, authors, university labs, organizations, and companies. A committee of leading experts will evaluate the proposals.

For any questions related to the grants or your application, you can contact imminent@translated. com . Fill out a simple application form: a 250-word pitch of your project what makes you the right team to solve it?

what will you produce concretely? Please note: the project can either be part of an existing research project on which you are already working or a standalone project focusing on one of the proposed topics. The call is open.

The submission deadline is October 1, 2026. Applications can be made in any field of research. Subject: Language economics Subject: Human-computer interaction Subject: Neuroscience of language Subject: Machine learning algorithms for translation This call is open to startuppers, researchers, innovators, authors, university labs, organizations, and companies.

You can apply from anywhere in the world. 5 grants – $20,000 each for 1 year. After signing the grant agreement, Imminent will transfer 50% of the funds to the successful applicants.

The remaining 50% of the approved funds will be paid out upon receipt of the final reports. We will set dates for two milestone meetings to follow up on the project (these can be held remotely). A committee of leading experts will evaluate the proposals.

Initially, 20 candidates will be selected for the second evaluation phase and will be asked to send a more detailed description of the project and a 2-minute video in which the researcher gives a short speech about their project. Candidates may be contacted for a 10-minute interview if the committee requires further information.

Participants will be asked to publish an article about their project on the Imminent Research Center website within a year of the final presentation. Imminent is the Translated Research Center. Translated is on a mission to open up language to everyone using a powerful combination of expert human translators and machine intelligence, providing curated localization solutions and tools to 212,279 customers worldwide.

We want to live in a world where everyone can understand and be understood. We truly believe that an awareness of languages is an integral part of any respectful and open-minded approach to intercultural relations, and that any international project can be improved if it has a way to express itself in the languages with which it seeks genuine contact.

Imminent Research Grants – Projects Awarded Rewarding the best projects in language innovation Subject: Language economics Problem examples: The economic benefit of multilingualism, new indicators and models. Alternative focus: Investment, planning, discovery, human resources management, supply chain management, international trade. Opportunity: Improve management and entrepreneurship in a multilingual environment .

Problem examples: How to collect and organize language data in all sorts of modalities? How to investigate the utility and properties of data with respect to machine learning algorithms? For a given or planned dataset, can we determine its impact on the performance of a learning algorithm?

Alternative focus: How to generate high-quality data from plentiful low-quality data? How to optimize human annotation efforts (utility/economics)? Opportunity: Teach machines using human communication examples.

Subject: Human-computer interaction Problem examples: How to engage professional human translators in a symbiosis with machine translation, equitable incentives for human participation in the development of machine translation, rational and emotional rewards, interface design, seamless human-computer interaction. Alternative focus: Design, engagement, empowerment, interface, interaction, gamification.

Opportunity: Give value back to humans . Subject: Neuroscience of language Problem examples: How the brain works in language learning and translation. Alternative focus: Experiments, theories, applications, neuroscience, psychology, social psychology.

Opportunity: How humans trust translations. How they open up to new languages. What is the difference between humans and machines in learning languages?

Subject: Machine learning algorithms for translation Problem examples: How to improve the efficiency (quantity, quality, speed, adaptability, context awareness) of learning algorithms for machine translation. Alternative focus: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, algorithms. Opportunity: Support the creation of the next generation of machine technology .

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