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Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 10 Mar 2023

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.

Press Releases • By Argos Multilingual On 15 Dec 2020

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

Features • By Seyma Albarino On 29 Nov 2019

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?

Features • By Tess MacDougall On 22 Nov 2019

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?

Machine Translation • By Seyma Albarino On 5 Nov 2019

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.

Investment & Funding • By Esther Bond On 10 Sep 2019

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.

Machine Translation • By Esther Bond On 19 Aug 2019

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.

Demand Drivers • By Vijayalaxmi Hegde On 25 Jul 2019

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.

Academia • By Florian Faes On 10 Jul 2019

Yes, Post-Editese Is Real, Study Finds

Post-editing machine translation versus unaided human translation from scratch — new research reveals how the output differs.

Features • By Gino Diño On 30 May 2019

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.

Sponsored Content • By Gino Diño On 27 May 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.

Academia • By Gino Diño On 10 May 2019

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.

Academia • By Esther Bond On 2 May 2019

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.

Features • By Gino Diño On 4 Dec 2018

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.

Features • By Gino Diño On 5 Nov 2018

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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