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  “Disruption is not something we set out to do. It is something that happens because of what we do,” stresses Brian Solis. Disruption changes human behavior (think: iPhone) and it’s a mixture of both ‘design-thinking and system-thinking’ to get there. So as an innovator, where do you begin if you don’t start with attempting disruption. To boil down Solis’ message into a word: ‘empathy.’ That’s right, empathy. Empathy drives the core of your vision as an innovator , or so it should says Solis. Solis says that there are only two ways to change human behavior, by manipulating people, or by inspiring them . If you choose the former, good luck on your journey, but if you would prefer to attempt the latter with your innovative attempts, then you should start with empathy: the why of your product or company. That is how you will capture attention, and hold onto it, especially in the technologically, socially-driven world today .” The excerpt above is from this post on Th...

IOLAR a Slovenian LSP, was interested in building a custom machine translation engine to translate technical engineering content from German to Slovenian. This language combination is difficult and has a relatively complex source language (for MT) combined with a very difficult target language (for MT) that, like other Slavic languages, has a large number of inflected forms.  While translator productivity was important, the primary objectives were to ensure a high level of writing-style consistency and terminological accuracy. As there was no specific and directly related translation memory available to train the system, several hundred thousand segments were gathered from several somewhat related sources, in a much broader domain than technical engineering. This data was combined to form a single corpus that was used to train the engine.  Earlier Attempts with Moses Based on the widespread publicity around Moses and the increasing number of publicized Moses Case Studies, I...