Last time, we talked about the process of pre-editing the source text to improve the quality before running it through machine translation.
Simply running it through machine translation often results in insufficient quality, so it is necessary to further revise the translation after it has been machine translated. This process is called "post-editing".
However, the extent of revision may vary depending on the quality standards that are being aimed for.
Is it enough for the meaning of the source text to be accurately conveyed, or are fluency and readability also required?
If the post-editing process takes too much time and ends up costing more than human translation, then there is no point in using machine translation.
It is important to consider the quality of the output from the engine and the cost of post-editing when deciding how much post-editing is necessary for each project.
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Tokuda Ai
・As a machine translation consultant, I provide consulting services for Japanese companies on machine translation implementation and process building.
・I place importance on the quality of the source text, which affects multilingual translation, and also provide consulting services for manual creation suitable for machine translation in the Japanese writing process.
・I also give presentations on the following topics related to machine translation.
- Presentation at the 23rd JTF (Japan Translation Federation) Translation Festival in 2013
"Approaches to Machine Translation in Multilingual Environments
- From the Perspectives of Evaluation and Process"
- Presentation at the 2014 AAMT (Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation) Machine Translation Fair
"Mastering Machine Translation - Improving Quality and Productivity"
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