John Tinsley

John Tinsley

Human In The Loop

- Supported by Translated - Human In The Loop BY JOHN TINSLEY Translated recently released a dynamic, adaptive machine translation (MT) system that fuses advancements in AI...

Gender Bias: the Challenge of ‘He’ vs. ‘She’ for MT

The worst forms of bias are those that are explicit conscious forms of prejudice against some individual or group based on some characteristic of their being, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs.

Metrics, what are they good for? Absolutely…nothing?

Edwin Starr’s 1970 Number 1 hit “War” repeatedly asks the question, “War, what is it good for?” and the response is always “nothing.”

It’s my Parity and I’ll Cry if I Want To

When it comes to machine translation (MT), the question of quality and how to effectively carry out evaluations has always been near the top of the agenda. The topic came even further into focus with the advent of neural machine translation, and that’s when we were introduced to a new phrase: human parity. An MT engine that has achieved human parity means, ostensibly, that it can produce translations of equal quality to those produced by a human translator.

State of the Machine Translation Union

Unpacking the Black Box State of the Machine Translation Union John Tinsley John Tinsley is co-managing director of Iconic Translation Machines, which joined the RWS Group in...

The growing role of neural MT in the life sciences

Focus The growing role of neural MT in the life sciences John Tinsley John Tinsley is the CEO of Iconic Translation Machines Ltd. He holds a PhD...