Understanding MT Customization
While we have reached a point in time where many more people realize that machine translation (MT) produces the best results when it is properly customized, what customization actually means is still not well understood. There is a significant difference between shallow customization and deep customization in terms of the impact on the MT system’s output quality. The quality of output in turn has a direct impact on the potential business leverage and return on investment. There are a growing number of MT vendors, but very few real MT developers in the market today, and deep expertise is the key differentiator that leads directly to better output and better productivity. It is important for anyone considering purchasing an MT solution to understand the difference between the two types of vendors . Generally, MT developers have created either Rules Based Machine Translation (RBMT) or Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems with hands-on coding at the deepest levels of the core M