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There’s a joke that goes like this: A human translator and a machine translator are about to walk into a bar. The human ducks, the machine gets a bruised optical sensor. The joke underscores [...]

During our recent trawling of localization news and events here in the marketing department at text&form some machine translation (MT) faux pas have really caught our eye. With the use of [...]

In the last two entries on Bridging & NMT (Part I & Part II), neural machine translation (NMT) was examined rather critically. Despite that, it would be foolish to simply dismiss machine [...]

Bridging In the first chapter of this article  the construction to suffice with was used as an example to discuss the incompatibility of neural machine translation and informal language. Although [...]

You’re considering hiring a translator or agency to help you with translation, but you’re new to the industry. Isn’t translation just a matter of finding the right word in the new language for [...]

Highly praised and frowned upon, machine translation is a hot topic for the translation industry. It causes fear of drastic changes while promising increased productivity and quality. Without [...]

Every industry has its tools that make the work easier. A tradesperson has their hammer, an engineer their Excel spreadsheet, and a translator works with CAT tools. But what are CAT tools? We’ll [...]

text&form attends as many industry events as possible throughout the year. It’s how we stay in shape and provide our customers with the highest level of service possible. Here’s what we’ve [...]

Within just a few years, we have had to grow accustomed to the fact that computers can do things using artificial intelligence (AI) that we once only trusted humans to do. Today’s machines can [...]

ATICOM Workshop – Post-editing, Machine Translation, and Apps in Studio 2017 This year, ATICOM, the professional association for career translators and interpreters, will hold a workshop on [...]