Understanding Machine Translation’s Strengths
Last week, I wrote about being inspired by Kirti Vashee's presentation on the application of statistical machine translation (MT). During this week, I had the chance to talk to several of our MT post editors about their views on editing MT output. It was very interesting to see their perspectives.…
Real-time Translation Enabled by Advancements in Machine Translation
It was a real delight listening to Kirti Vashee from Asia Online presenting on the ROI of Machine Translation – Scoping and Measuring MT. It took place at the most recent annual Association of Language Companies conference in New Orleans between May 16-20, 2012. Much of the today’s online content…
Living an Awesome Life blog
Last week, a friend of mine asked me to check out Sacha Chua’s Living an Awesome Life blog: http://sachachua.com/blog/. A warm and fuzzy feeling came over me clicking through the postings. Here I found someone else who is dedicated to living life intentionally. At an early age, I realized happiness…
Read Pen technical writers’ Meetup in Ottawa
Yesterday I joined seven technical writers in a Meetup group for lunch at the Ottawa Bagel Shop. Len Fardella, owner of Peter’s New Jobs told me about this group when he heard that I want to meet more technical writers (technical writing and translation are closely related). It is a…