German LSP lengoo Raises EUR 6.0m Series A from Redalpine, Angel Investors
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
Tag: post editing
What Makes a Good Post-Editor: Research Examines Activity Patterns of over 300 Linguists
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
Supreme Court of India Begins Translating Judgments Into Indian Languages
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
Yes, Post-Editese Is Real, Study Finds
Post-editing machine translation versus unaided human translation from scratch — new research reveals how the output differs. Continue reading
Reader Polls: Post-Editing, Interactive Prediction, Translation Devices, and M&A
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
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As Neural Machine Translation’s Core Model Seems Settled, Focus Shifts to Products
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 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. Continue reading
Survey Examines Machine Translation Post-Editing Among Freelancers and LSPs
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 6 Million Words Annually Aren’t Their Biggest Localization Challenge
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
Reader Polls: In-House Translators, Asia, Post-Editing, 2019 Outlook
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
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What RWS Told Investors About How Well Post-Editing Works in Patent Translation
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 Tests Post-Editing for Neural MT Through “Very Simple Interactions”
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
Xerox’s New Translation Portal Is ABBYY in Disguise
ABBYY licenses the Xerox brand in joint launch of curious hybrid between online translation platform and machine-translation-enabled copy machine. Xerox’s sales force will have to work hard to... Continue reading
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... Continue reading
Unbabel Names Paulo Dimas Head of Product
Wizi cofounder Paulo Dimas named Head of Product at Unbabel based in Lisbon, CMO says company now has 400 paying customers Continue reading
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