Marina Pantcheva

MARINA PANTCHEVA is a polyglot with a passion for languages, data, and structure. She combined all three in her PhD research on nanosyntax. She currently works at RWS leading a multidisciplinary team that focuses on crowd localization solutions.

Rethinking LQE Metrics

Is our approach to linguistic quality evaluation (LQE) flawed? Marina Pantcheva dives deep into the MQM 2.0 metrics, questioning its linearity and its inability to account for sample size variations. Drawing on linguistic theory and the nuances of human perception, this article challenges the industry norms, pushing for a more nuanced approach to translation quality metrics. Explore the intriguing disconnect between standardized metrics and actual linguistic perception in Pantcheva's in-depth analysis.

Be Fearless on Your Way to Multilingual Mastery

In the May issue of MultiLingual earlier this year, writer Eddie Osborne took us on an impressive journey through his language-learning experiences that span more than 10 languages from five different language families. In his piece, he discusses the effect that prior knowledge of one language can have on the acquisition of another language, concluding that the decisive factor for the success of language learning is the time and patience a learner devotes to its study.