Despite several companies claiming to have achieved parity with human translation this particular frontier at present remains wild and unconquered. It’s both strange and fascinating
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What is Post-Editing and Why is It So Hard?
Jörgen Danielsen describes the challenges in getting started with Machine Translation and the difficulties faced with post-editing. Modern technology now covers more than the basics,
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Studio MT plugins and GT4T
News of an article published by Mats Linder, and GT4T, an alternative to Studio MT plugins. Machine translation (MT) is an ever-present topic on translators’
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Post-editing: Blessing or curse for translators?
One is unlikely to make many friends among translators talking about machine translation (MT) – unless the conversation is restricted to deriding its stupid mistakes
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The human role in a machine-translated world
The rise of machine translation has left human translators with an uncertain future. But the translation industry cannot depend on machines alone and won’t be
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Recommendations for Translation Environments to Improve Translators’ Workflows
Jan Van den Bergh, Eva Geurts, Donald Degraen, Mieke Haesen, Iulianna van der Lek-Ciudin and Karin Coninx (2015). A full list of publications based on
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Translate Everything to Streamline Workflows
The best approach to using Machine Translation (MT) is to include it within your existing translation workflow. For many large Localisation Service Providers (LSPs), MT
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How much does translation cost?
Like many simple questions, this is one with no easy answer. For one thing, it’ll depend whether it’s a complex technical report, a novel, or
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Can the Language Community embrace Collaborative Commons and survive?
When Albert Einstein said: “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change”, he was referring neither to the internet nor to localization. Today the
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Post-Processing of Machine Translations, the New Money Maker of “the Translation Industry”
Translators are supposed to be, almost by definition, intelligent and educated people. After all, they must know at least two languages and many of them
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How Translators Can Assess Post-Editing MT Opportunities
With the continued growth in the use of MT, it has become increasingly important for translators to understand better when it is worth getting involved,
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Is your software “translation worthy”? Crowdsourcing may give you the answer
You’ve developed a great program and now you want to localize it for foreign markets. But you don’t want to waste money translating it into
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Translation technology – What’s still missing and what has been fixed?
Letter That Was Sent in Advance to Tool Vendors I would really like to thank you again for your willingness this past year to respond
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T-Manager Terminology Tool
T-Manager is a Microsoft Excel-based terminology tool, designed in VBA, to automatically analyse, customise and manage terminology on the fly. T-Manager can also be used
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Which Terminology for the European Citizen?
In the era of globalization and multilingual communication, States, companies and organizations need to establish and to share a commonly understandable terminology. Two questions have
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The pros and cons of Machine Translation
“Today, more content is created in 48 hours than all of the content created between the beginning of time and 2003,” said former Google CEO
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The A to Z of Freelance Translation online course
Entering the translation stage can often be an overwhelming experience for new freelance translators. You may have just left university with a translation degree and
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Machine translation forces major Japanese publishing company into bankruptcy
We said it before here — In machines translation you get what you pay for! Takeda Random House Japan Co., Ltd has been forced into
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Light and Full MT Post-Editing Explained
Considering the intense pressure to maximize corporate localization budget utility and speed products to foreign markets, it is no surprise that Machine Translation (MT) often
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Pricing in the Translation-Memory Workflow
Translation memory (TM) and machine translation (MT) continue to change the translation industry. Pricing is evolving, too, as clients, translators, and agencies offer and accept
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Machine Translation Pre-Editing To Boost Output Quality
Post-editing isn’t the only way to improve machine translation output: pre-editing may cut costs and boost localization quality.
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What’s the difference between Translation Agency, Localization Services and LSP?
All of us have heard or read terms like translation agency, translation company, localization agency and language service provider (LSP). Many people new to translation
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The Insider’s Guide to Project Management in Translation Agencies
You can’t please all of the people all of the time, or so the saying goes. But as any translation project manager will tell you,
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Cost, Quality And Time: The Triad Of Translation Project Management
This blog gives an overview of time, cost and quality as it relates to translation project management.
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