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This was originally published on SDL.COM. As we consider and look at the various forces impacting the legal industry today, we see several ongoing trends which are increasingly demanding more attention from both inside and outside counsel. These forces are: The Digital Data Momentum Increasing Concern for Data Security The Growing Importance of Information Governance Increasing Globalization    The Digital Data Momentum Several studies by IDC, EMC and academics have predicted for years that we are facing an ever-growing data deluge and content explosion. The prediction that the digital universe will be 44 zettabytes by 2020 means little to most of us. But if you state that 500 million tweets, ~300 billion emails, 65 billion Whatsapp messages are sent, and 3.5 billion Google searches are made every single day , many more of us would understand the astounding scale of the modern digital world. While only a small fraction of this data will flow into the purview of the...

This is the second post in our posts series on machine translation quality. Again this is a slightly less polished and raw variant of a version published on the SDL site . The first one focused on BLEU scores , which are often improperly used to make decisions on inferred MT quality, where it clearly is not the best metric to draw this inference. The reality of many of these comparisons today is that scores based on publicly available (i.e. not blind) news domain tests are being used by many companies and LSPs to select MT systems which translate IT, customer support, pharma, financial services domain related content. Clearly, this can only result in sub-optimal choices. The use of machine translation (MT) in the translation industry has historically been heavily focused on localization use cases, with the primary intention to improve efficiency, that is, speed up turnaround and reduce unit word cost. Indeed, machine translation post-editing (MTPE) has been instrumental in helping loca...