How Fast Should You Post-edit Machine Translation? Here’s What the EU Translation Centre Thinks
The European Union’s Translation Centre gives guidance on daily post-editing output in a new multi-million Euro tender for translation services.
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Argos Multilingual is ISO 18587:2017 Certified for Post-Editing of Machine Translation Output
ISO 18587 is the standard followed by organizations offering machine translation (MT) and post-editing services including Argos Multilingual
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 Gen Z Take on Preparing Translation Students for the Realities of the Language Industry
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, Post-Editese Is Real, Study Finds
Post-editing machine translation versus unaided human translation from scratch — new research reveals how the output differs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 easy part.
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
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