New Research Flips the Script on CAT Tools — Literally
November 2020 paper by University of Zurich and Lilt researchers measures how text presentation impacts translation quality via three tasks: copying, identifying errors, and revision.
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Tilde MT Dynamic Learning: Latest Innovation in Neural Machine Translation
Tilde MT Dynamic Learning picks up human corrections in real time, thus significantly boosting the quality of machine translation.
Traductions Serge Bélair Appoints New CEO; Strikes Deal With Private Equity Investor
New partnership allows TRSB to enter the M&A race; founder takes on strategic role as longtime VP of Business Development Mary Kazamias is named CEO.
Reader Polls: Rev Pay Cut, Shift to Hourly Rates, Edit Distance, Translation Regulations
LSPs moving toward hourly rates for linguists? Edit distance a viable metric long-term? Are regulations important to translation demand? Will Rev recover from bad press over transcriptionist pay cuts?
A Quick Primer on Edit-Distance, a Key Metric in Post-Editing Machine Translation
As the language industry transitions to an operating model where the first draft is mostly generated by machines, many are looking for ways to quantify linguists' value-add. Edit-distance can help.
Hong Kong’s HeterMedia Invests EUR 1 Million in TMS Provider Wordbee
Hong Kong financial printing and document services company HeterMedia buys 22% stake in Luxembourg-based translation management system Wordbee for EUR 1m.
Memsource Mobile: First Mobile App to Offer Complete Translation Tool for PMs and Linguists
Latest version of Memsource Mobile App looks set to disrupt the market with the inclusion of the first mobile-based CAT tool.
Brink Is Back With Big Language Solutions, Buys Protranslating
Undeterred by the 2016 ULG saga, industry veteran Jeff Brink teams up with a private equity firm to buy Florida’s Protranslating and launch a buy-and-build strategy.
Researchers Run User Study on MT Post-Editing’s Most Promising Alternative
Researchers led by machine translation pioneer Philipp Koehn examine how interactive translation prediction compares to MT post-editing when powered by neural instead of statistical MT.
The Most Important Trends in Translation Technology for 2018
Can machines become as good as humans in natural language? Are CAT tools getting far too complicated? Will users increasingly grow comfortable with sacrificing data privacy for personalized digital comfort? These issues are examined with bold quotes and predictions from the memoQ Trend Report 2018.
If Translation Quality is King then Connectivity is Queen, Survey Finds
For Corporates, translation quality is four times more important than cost, but difficulties often impede them from delivering quality at scale. New research shows that stronger connections between teams and technology is key.
6 to Watch: How These Translation Startups Disrupt the Supply Chain
Predictive typing, no more middlemen, visualized app translation, machine translation edited by the crowd, and more. What is shaping tomorrow’s language industry. And are the incumbents ready for what’s coming?
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