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? Continue reading
As the language industry becomes more and more competitive, what are universities doing to ensure that their translation students are ready to enter the marketplace? Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Germany-based language service provider lengoo secures EUR 6.0m in Series A funding, targets scale with NMT and post-editing for mature enterprise customers. Continue reading
Characterizing post-editors based on their keystrokes, mouse activity, and other editing actions can help predict speed and, eventually, quality, says a new paper by Unbabel researchers. Continue reading
The apex court is said to be using “translation software” to translate judgments into six Indian languages — a first in India, where the language of the law is still largely English. Continue reading
Post-editing machine translation versus unaided human translation from scratch — new research reveals how the output differs. Continue reading
Slator’s readers give their take on translation devices, per-hour word output for post-edited MT, post-editing versus interactive prediction, and M&A activity in 2019. Continue reading
At SlatorCon London 2019, Systran CEO Jean Senellart outlined the latest in NMT developments, called out some myths from vendors, and pointed out what’s missing from the industry. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
The results of two post-editing of machine translation surveys shine a light on the opinions of practitioners (post-editors and LSPs) on post-editing. Continue reading
Shopify’s Content and Localization Manager, Giulia Greco, shares how the multi-channel ecommerce company will have localized six million words by the time 2018 ends, and why translation was the... Continue reading
The readers have spoken on topics ranging from governments supporting linguist training and education, post-editing machine translation, current demand for Asian languages, and the 2019 outlook Continue reading
Language service provider RWS tells investors at capital markets event about how it is integrating Moravia and informs about the results of a pilot project to deploy MT post-editing in production... Continue reading
Facebook experiments with post-editing to improve its neural machine translation system. The QuickEdit system supposedly improves machine output by learning from post-editors by simply rejecting... Continue reading
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