As we brought up last time, the edition stage is necessary for projects that are looking to have high levels of quality. Below are some examples of translations, with very clear errors, and issues in order to appreciate the added value of the editing stage. Example 1 Source: Coca-Cola Zero® ha sido uno de los [...]
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Examples of Edition
Friday, August 13th, 2010The Molto Project
Monday, July 19th, 2010The European Union, aware of the importance of communication between the member countries and their citizens, has decided to finance a project known as Molto, to the tune of 2.3 million euros, that will develop a tool offering translations of a high quality for a large number of language pairs on the Internet. The University [...]
Smart Translator
Friday, July 16th, 2010As we have discussed here before, the use of automatic translations has been on the rise recently as a result of the growing need for quick translations, even if they are not of the highest quality. Smart Translator is a series of software programs that translates technical texts originally in English into other languages, which [...]
Automatic Transcription and Translation of Subtitles on Youtube
Saturday, May 15th, 2010Google has been working hard on expanding and improving the subtitling on the videos hosted on Youtube. The main goal is for them to be used by the millions visitors to the site who wish to view videos in a language they are unfamiliar with or for those who have hearing impaired and wish to [...]
Systran
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Background It is one of the oldest automatic translations programs on the market, and was designed in 1970 by Dr. Peter Toma. Toma started his work at Georgetown University. At its commencement, this program was developed for the United States Air Force, and the only language pair was Russian-English. Then, NASA approved its use for [...]
Automatic Translation Websites
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Several websites have popped up that are in the business of automatic translation. Some of them are just general, and others are specialized in certain subjects and offer their services to anyone who is looking to translate any word or phrase. We also have online dictionaries that are specific to fields such as medicine, legal, [...]
