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The Importance of Being Technology Agnostic
For the June 2013 issue of Multilingual Magazine, I spoke with PayPal’s Rubén Rodríguez de la Fuente about why companies like PayPal are taking an open approach to machine translation technology....
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Post-Editing Best Practices Identified by ACCEPT
The EU-funded ACCEPT Project brings together five leaders in machine translation: the University of Edinburgh (inventors of the Moses engine), the University of Geneva, Symantec, Acrolinx and...
View ArticleWhat Does a Technology Agnostic Offer Look Like?
Today’s buyers of translation and localization are more savvy than ever before. And they are looking beyond straight Translation-Editing-Proofreading (TEP) to a full panel of language services that...
View ArticleRBMT – SMT – Hybrid Engines Compared
“Being technology agnostic means using the very best technology for the task, without being bound by a supplier monopoly” — John Papaioannou, CEO of Lexcelera-LexWorks. Here’s what I would add to that:...
View ArticleTop Requests for Machine Translation ‘A La Carte’
What’s the top trend in machine translation this year? For LexWorks, the answer, hands down, is diversity. Diversity of engines, diversity of services. In years past, our major request was for machine...
View ArticleDo You Have an End-to-End Playbook for Your Content?
We hear a lot about content strategy today, but what is it exactly and why should it matter to you? A content strategy is your end-to-end process for how you plan, create, translate, deliver and manage...
View ArticleWho Pays the Price for Poor MT?
The first time I heard this, it sent a chill down my spine: “It doesn’t matter if the machine translation output is [insert 4-letter expletive starting with an 'S']: the post-editors will clean it up.”...
View ArticleMachine Translation Made Easy
Some time ago, Lexcelera (including the LexWorks subsidiary) made the decision that “easy” was our goal. Most language providers nowadays tout quality, but quality is a given! So we asked ourselves...
View ArticleTechnology Agnostic Case Studies
How does it work to be technology agnostic in practice? While there are general rules of thumb – for example, that SMT works better with user-generated content – LexWorks has found it valuable to test...
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The Languages of Love
Love is international, so here are more than 400 ways to say that one, all important, phrase: I love you. From the Eskimo language of Aleut (fewer than 300 speakers left) to Zulu (tens of millions of...
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