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Interested in investigating Machine Translation

Derek Smith

Italy
Local time: 03:38
Italian to English
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May 18, 2005

Hi folks
I translate from Italian to English
I have recently spoken to a colleage (Italian-French) whose uses MT and claims it can speed up the translation process significantly, justifying the initial expense of a commercial MT tool. I have experimented with the online demo of one application, but in my langauge pair I was totally underwhelmed by the results. However, maybe if I could increase specificity by loading glossaries or defining a subject field I could achieve more acceptable results. I also notice that Wordfast has a feature allowing interface with an MT tool. Can anyone provide any feedback on this subject? I'm considering the use of MT purely as a pre-editing tool to enable me to address to some extent the problems caused by static or falling prices and large work volumes requested. I have no intention of delivering MT translated work or otherwise allowing this kind of strategy to impact on quality.
TIA
Derek

Jeff Allen

France
Local time: 03:38

Member (2011)
English to Haitian-Creole
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MT for production translation jobs

May 18, 2005

Yes,
Just do a search in the Proz forums on the word mtpostediting and you will find many thread messages showing examples of how using MT has been efficient and productive. I am finishing up another project report on the topic right now with regard to using MT for marketing press releases.

Jeff
http://www.geocities.com/jeffallenpubs/

Derek Smith

Italy
Local time: 03:38
Italian to English
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TOPIC STARTER

Thanks

May 18, 2005

Hi Jeff
Thanks for your feedback. From a cursory examination of the links you recommended and your article it looks like I'll be parting with around 1K euro/dollars so I need to be sure I can work with the tool when it's installed. Right now I need to read around in greater detail as you have recommended.

Respect
Derek