Post-Editing and NMT: Embracing a New Age of Translation Technology
This is a guest post by Rodrigo Fuentes Corradi and Andrea Stevens from the SDL MT project management team. SDL is unique amongst LSPs as they have both deep MT development expertise, and also have a large pool of in-house professional translators who can communicate much more easily with the MT development and management team on engine specifics, and provide the kind of feedback that leads to best practices in MTPE projects and delivers overall superior quality. MT in many localization contexts only works if it indeed delivers output that is useful to translators rather than frustrates them. This quality is best achieved by an active and productive (constructive) dialogue between translators, project managers, and developers, which is the modus operandi at SDL. While most MT developers have a strong preference for using automated quality metrics like BLEU and LEPOR, the SDL MT project management teams have discovered many years ago, that competent human assessments ar...