Human Translations: The Path to Professional Quality Professional Human Translation Services In the world of translations, there has been significant emphasis on the development of technology and automatic machine translations. As we will see the next couple of minutes, the use of humans is still essential to achieving professional quality in translations. As you can [...]
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Human Translation Services [VIDEO]
Monday, July 9th, 2012Translating Websites with Google
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012The benefits of automatic translation are beyond compare. So much so that just a few years ago (in 2009), Google launched a tool (complementary to Google Translate) that allows you to translate the entire content of a website to 51 languages. With this tool, if you go to a Web page that is in a [...]
Linguistic Pre-edition
Monday, February 20th, 2012Pre-edition, as we have seen in other posts, may include several procedures: a text can be pre-edited both from the point of view of the format as well as the text itself and any of its typographical errors. The handling of the format in all its forms: tables, images, text boxes, tables of contents, headers [...]
Automatic Translation of Technical Files
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Automatic translation, also for these purposes referred to as machine translation, is a component of Computational Linguistics and represents the intersection of Translation and Information Technology to explore the functions of the software that can translate text from one language to another in a legible manner. Alan Melby, PhD in Computational Linguistics and professor at [...]
Can Post-editing Be Used Every Time?
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011We have seen in previous posts that post-editing is the human process of reviewing a text translated by a machine to give it grammatical and semantic sense to a particular text. But can this system be used in all cases? As an option, it can be used, but at times it is not profitable or efficient [...]
The History of Machine Translation
Thursday, December 1st, 2011In recent years, machine translation has become a commonplace element in translation agencies. A good post-editing of a machine translation can produce the same results as a conventional translation and editing. However, not everyone knows this procedure, especially translators and editors. Although post-editing is a process that is already well known and frequently used in [...]
What is post-editing?
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011We cannot deny the fact that there has been technological progress made in all fronts, including in the field of translation. Until the 1970s, machine translation hardly ever left the laboratory setting. The use of machine translation began to spread maybe out of necessity or curiosity. Today, almost forty years later, we can say that [...]
In Defense of Machine Translations
Friday, June 24th, 2011In a previous post (Industrial Translations and MT), I spoke of the industries that have to adapt to the new concept of the “age of discontinuity.” Academics are now wondering: do all sectors have to face this new conception of the economy and the business world? The analysis suggests that some sectors more prone than [...]
Industrial Translations and MT
Friday, June 17th, 2011If you have had a chance to read my previous post “Hand-crafted or Industrial… Really a Dilemma?“, then you are familiar with my opinion on the coexistence of both types of translations. It is time now to discuss the thorny issue of machine translations (MT) and post-editing. In my opinion this version is more suitable [...]
Seminar on Industrialization of the Linguistic Sector
Thursday, March 10th, 2011It is a reality that the world is advancing and that new technologies are growing in importance in all areas, including our own: translation and interpretation. In fact, I have found dozens of articles about new devices, systems or software that promise to be the ideal “translator substitute”, and it can only seem paradoxical that [...]
