House Taken Over: Displacing the Machines
In this post, “House Taken Over” is not in reference to the famous story by the renowned writer and translator Julio Cortázar. Rather, it refers
September 10, 2014
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Translation: One of the Most Promising Industries in 2014
Recently Inc. Magazine published an article with the five most promising industries in 2014. It’s no surprise that within that select group are two that
July 18, 2014
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What is Pig Latin?
I remember as a kid, growing up in the U.S., always trying to communicate with my friends in secret. One method we used was writing
November 18, 2013
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Human Translation Services [VIDEO]
Human Translations: The Path to Professional Quality httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvlBcLPqkNI&version=3&hl=es_MX&showsearch=0&rel=0&modestbranding=1 Professional Human Translation Services In the world of translations, there has been significant emphasis on the development
July 9, 2012
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Evaluating SymEval
SymEval is a tool written in Python for measuring the effort invested in the Post-Editing (PE) process. It reports the edit distance between segments in
June 5, 2012
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Communicating Between Countries Just Got Easier
Last Tuesday, Google announced that its email service, Gmail will soon include the option to have emails automatically translated. Although this option had been previously
May 16, 2012
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Moses for LSPs
Trusted Translations Experience with Moses presented at TAUS Open Source Machine Translation, Pre Conference Workshops, GALA MONACO 2012. Download as PDF Trusted Translations Moses Experience
March 26, 2012
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TMX: Translation Memories in XML format
In a previous post I described XML as a standard for exchanging information. There are some specific XML formats which, in turn, have become pretty
March 17, 2012
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Linguistic Pre-edition
Pre-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
February 20, 2012
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Automatic Translation of Technical Files
Automatic translation, also for these purposes referred to as machine translation, is a component of Computational Linguistics and represents the intersection of Translation and Information
January 2, 2012
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Can Post-editing Be Used Every Time?
We 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
December 20, 2011
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The History of Machine Translation
In 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
December 1, 2011
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