Tag: machine translation (MT)
Research from Translated projects that MT is nearing human-like levels of performance
By observing the edits made to MT output by the 136,000 highest performing freelance translators on Matecat — the company’s computer-assisted translation tool — Translated found that the amount of time translators take to edit MT output has been declining along a “surprisingly linear trend.”
The LangOps Paradigm: Perceptions of machine translation within the translation industry
Introduction and background
After attending GALA 2022 in April, I began to wonder if there was a gap in the way different stakeholder groups within the translation industry perceive machine translation (MT) and its usefulness. At the conference — which brought together the leaders of language service providers (LSPs) from around the world — I noticed that many of the presentations were on the topic of MT and artificial intelligence (AI), and the transformational opportunities enabled by this technology.
Textum Translations’ Global Survey Reveals the Biggest Challenges Faced by LSPs
Good linguists are always in great demand. There are certainly many different approaches to vendor managers' never-ending task of finding them. “We wanted to...
Machine translation is no substitute for humans when it comes to law enforcement
“I've been doing this for 27 years, and I have seen the evolution of the industry when it comes to translation technologies,” he said. “To translators and interpreters, I want to say: ‘You are not obsolete, you are important, you are needed, and you will be needed always.’ ”
Brave adds 93 languages to its privacy-oriented machine translation feature
Brave, a browser based on Google’s open-source Chromium browser, places a particular emphasis on user privacy, blocking any advertisement that depends on trackers. While Chromium has a native translation service, the company launched Brave Translate to ensure the privacy of its users.
Developing machine translation to help Indigenous refugees navigate immigration courts
Seeking asylum in the United States can be complex even for speakers of high-resource languages like Spanish — for speakers of less widely spoken languages like K’iche’ and Q’anjob’al, it can be even more difficult.
Nine Highlights in Machine Translation – What to Expect at AMTA 2022
he Association for Machine Translation in the Americas has published the program for the 2022 conference. Papers at this year’s industry event represent innovations in machine translation - both in the science and the craft of implementation.
Study assesses machine translation for marketing purposes
A new study from Weglot and Nimdzi Insights suggests that machine translation (MT) is more accurate than some people might expect.
TikTok begins rolling out translation, updated transcription feature
TikTok is currently offering translations between nine languages: English, Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Korean, and Indonesian.