Category: News

03
Mar

Homophonic translations are multilingual games of telephone

Homophonic translations are a multilingual version of the parlor game in which each person whispers a phrase to the next, with the meaning getting mangled along the way. The twist is, you don’t actually have to know how to speak any other languages in order to do a translation.

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27
Feb

The history of machine translation

by Globalization Partners International

The modern history of automated translation begins primarily in the post WW2 & Cold War era, when the race for information and technology motivated researchers and scholars to find a way to quickly translate information.

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26
Feb

Global language translation software market & forecasts 2014 to 2020

Systems are powered by hybrid machine translation (MT) engines. IT enterprise-level machine translation combines rules systems and statistical systems to achieve a hybrid solution.

These are a “black-box solution” due to the complexity of the software implementation and resources needed to successful train an engine.

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23
Feb

Human-edited machine translation service

To save businesses from breaking the bank on translation services, Unbabel has developed technology that combines machine learning-based auto-translation with crowdsourced editing to offer quality translation at what it claims is “one-fifth” the going rate. By contracting Unbabel directly or by using the company’s REST-based API to integrate translation directly into their workflow, businesses can translate all of their website’s content in a flash at $0.02 per word.

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23
Feb

Residents wonder why same translation job has different rates

Qatar residents have pointed out that customers have to pay different rates for the same translation work at different places.

Wondering why they have to shell out more money at some places for a job that costs less at others, they claim the difference in rates can be quite significant at times. This is happening at a time when more expatriates of different nationalities arrive in the country for employment and the demand for translation to Arabic reaches an all-time high.

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