Questions & Answers
Questions and answers about personalized machine translation. I collected your questions throughout this series and present the answers here. If I missed something or if you have new questions, please ask.
Author: Tom Hoar
Six Steps To Productivity
A walk through six steps of personalized machine translation that I created 3 years ago reveals… how it sets up in minutes… how increased productivity monetizes your investment… and how to continue monetizing on autopilot…
The Dirty Little Secret
Most of what you’re being told about machine translation and post-editing is flat out wrong. The biggest mistake people make when working with machine translation is believing the hype.
Time Is Money, or…
A closer look at personalized machine translation. Personalized machine translation and the personal computer (PC) were breakthroughs because they put you in control. Ask yourself, which machine translation platforms put you in control to do…
Transforming Your Career
It’s easy to see that personalized machine translation transformed a customer’s career as a professional translator. From non-stop stress missing deadlines to calm assurance delivering her projects ahead of schedule, customers gave her more jobs,…
Productivity, Time, Money and Opportunity
I focus on productivity because productivity give you the time and opportunity to achieve your dreams. No matter what you believe about the value of machine translation for your business, personalized machine translation boosts productivity……
There’s a Better Way to Work With Machine Translation
Machine translation (MT) technology has become a mainstream tool in the translation services market. Unfortunately, machine-translated segments are not created equal. Some are detrimental to a translator’s productivity. Therefore, a translator needs benchmarks that can…
Practical MT Evaluation for Translators
This post also includes two appendices that made the article too long for Isabella’s blog. One is a glossary of our score terms. Another shows twelve (12) example source-target segments plus the output translations from…
A Proper Introduction to Slate™ Desktop
You could have missed our product launch and not know what Slate™ Desktop is. This article takes a step back to introduce you to our great new product that translators have been using for over…
Good Things Come In Small Packages
Bigger Isn’t Always Better. It seems that more and more translators and translation providers realize the opportunities Machine Translation has to offer. This has been reflected in our recent mini survey and various reader responses…