Outsource your post-editing needs to the experts
"If it is not perfect, post-edit it"
Translating is creating | Post-editing is perfecting
Post-editing saves you time while significantly reducing the cost.
What is Post-Editing?
Post-Editing is the correction of machine-translated content by human translators. Transitioning from translation to post-editing gives you the best of both worlds; having both the speed and cost benefits of MT while achieving human translation quality.
What are the benefits?
- 40% increase in productivity
- 40% decrease in time
- 40-60% reduction in cost
- Quality meeting the TEP standards
How does it work?
MT output provides our skilled linguists with the “raw material” to work on. At this point, the degree of faithfulness to the source-text depends on its level of standardization, language combination and use of available TMs to train the engine accordingly. Post-editing can be applied on two different levels, light post-editing or full post-editing. You get to choose the service that suits you best, based on your needs and preferences. Light post-editing covers major errors in grammar and meaning, with little to no regard for the overall style or tone. It delivers factually accurate texts at a high speed, by only making essential corrections. Full post-editing produces high quality results, equal to human translation and comparable to TEP with a bit more time invested. The resulting content is fluent, polished and natural-sounding, true to the original tone and style, while consistency in terminology is guaranteed
Outsource your needs to post-editing experts
Intertranslations S.A. is a professional Translation & Localization company that specializes in Light and Full Post-editing, helping MLVs, Localization Managers and all industries worldwide get their message across.
We analyze your needs and customize state-of-the-art solutions:
- Post-editing with trained MT+TM in specific specialization fields to save you time, money and ensure quality comparable to Human Translation, regardless of project volume.
- Creation of NMT
- Creation of NMT engine and Post-editing combined
- Post-editing as a stand-alone service
Why us?
- Over 20 years of experience
- More than 2,500,000 pages translated in over 150 language combinations for more than 5,500 clients in Europe and the US.
- More than 10,000,000 words post-edited in over 50 language combinations, including variations like Canadian French and Spanish LATAM.
- Internal R&D Department specializing in Creating/Training NMT Engines.
- TAUS-Certified linguists, following ISO 18587:2017: Translation Services – Post-editing of machine translation output.
Related Work
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Webinars
Networking in the field of Machine Translation Post – Editing
GALA MTPE SIG
We are proud to be a part of GALA’s MTPE Training Special Interest Group (SIG), moderated by Alicia Deadrick, Viveta Gene & Lucia Guerrero.
GALA’s SIGs are special networked learning committees dedicated to topics of mutual interest and to driving industry insights forward by bringing together members and enhancing peer knowledge sharing. The MTPE Training SIG will host monthly virtual meetings rich with presentations and discussions aiming at establishing a set of best practices for professionals involved in Post-Editing activities. We are truly excited for this collaborative project which attempts to inspect gray areas in MTPE Training and provide a common Post-Editing framework and we hope that it will help members, but also the entire community grow together. We invite all GALA members but also clients, LSP representatives and members of academia to participate, exchange ideas and bridge the gaps in MTPE training to ensure a better way of working together in the future.
Sign up for the MTPE Training SIG here and don’t forget to register for our next meeting on January 26.
See you at this month’s MTPE SIG!
Completed Webinars
Is MTPE standing for Machine Translation Professional Ethics?
Viveta Gene
Intertranslations
15 DECEMBER 2021
Details
As MTPE progressively finds its way into the workflows of more and more LSPs, a new model of professional ethics might be surfacing. While MT technology is just starting to reveal its true power, the human factor remains nonetheless significant, with the rise of the Post-Editor’s role. So, in these newly established workflows, what does MTPE stand for in terms of professional ethics? Are there any guiding principles or standards specific to MTPE work? And how can LSPs reap the benefits of MTPE while conforming to ethical standards? This webinar attempts to tackle all these questions in the context of Elia’s “Focus Forward Webinar Series”, which focuses on some of the most relevant issues faced by the language industry today.
You can watch a recording of the webinar here.
Drafting effective machine translation post-editing guidelines
Viveta Gene & Lucía Guerrero Romeo (CPSL)
TC43
16-18 NOVEMBER 2021
Details
The success of machine translation post-editing tasks depends heavily on the existence of clear post-editing guidelines. Despite this fact, there is currently no established protocol or international standard that spells out specific details regarding the content and scope of such guidelines.
With that in mind, and considering the confusion resulting from this important gap among linguists, clients and translation professionals, this workshop sets out to explore ways of effectively designing a set of post-editing guidelines.
Attendees were invited to share their opinions and experiences through live polls and surveys which will be used to draft a common template for post-editing guidelines. The resulting document will be published as a paper summarizing this process.
Stay tuned!
Efficient MT Post – Editing Training
Viveta Gene & Lucía Guerrero Romeo (CPSL)
Memsource collaboration
3 NOVEMBER 2021 & 13 December 2021
15:00 GMT
Details
This exclusive 2-part online workshop aims to highlight how efficient MTPE training can increase productivity and improve output quality, streamlining the post-editing process.
Prepared by Viveta Gene (Intertranslations) and Lucía Guerrero (CPSL), in collaboration with Memsource in the context of its “Machine Translation Workshop Series”, this initiative aspires to show the effectiveness of MTPE training using empirical data, while offering participants the chance to improve their skills, increasing their speed and learning to avoid common mistakes.
To this end, participants were invited to complete a short post-editing task prior to each of the workshop’s live sessions. Measuring the participants’ productivity rate before and after they receive MTPE training shed light on how training may impact both speed and accuracy in post-editing.
You can watch a recording of both Sessions here.
Details
Translating Europe Forum (TEF) is an annual event that has been bringing together translation professionals from all European countries for the past 8 years. This year’s edition, taking place entirely online, was dedicated to “Collaboration in Times of Automation”: translation is now far from the solitary profession it used to be and existing technologies may support its newfound collaborative aspects.
Intertranslations was proudly a part of TEF 2021, with Viveta Gene, Translation & Localization Industry Specialist, chairing the “Collaboration on Training: Industry and Academia” panel, where she presented a set of best practices for post-editing activities, based on recent findings in the field of MTPE training.
A recording of the “Collaboration on Training: Industry and Academia” panel can be found here.
TC42 The role and perspective of the Post-Editor
Viveta Gene
Intertranslations
20 NOVEMBER 2020
15:00 GMT
Details
Intertranslations will be a part of this year’s virtual edition of TC42 (Translating and the Computer), a leading forum that brings together language professionals from various backgrounds as well as academic and business researchers to discuss latest trends and share insights on business practices. Our contribution to the conference aims at helping both businesses and linguists alike understand the scope of a Post-Editor’s role and examines current attitudes towards Post-Editing. Do negative perspectives outweigh the benefits, undermining the efficiency of this cost-effective and time-efficient new service? Make sure you register here to get a grip on industry perspectives by following our upcoming presentation at TC42! The Management and Training Challenges of Post-Editing (Part 2)
Viveta Gene
Intertranslations
THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST
Details
The transition from Translation Age to Post-Editing Age poses many challenges for the translation industry. LSPs need to build the role of the post-editor, define the post-editing process, and set accurate expectations for productivity and quality. This two-part webinar discusses the challenges of managing Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) including changes in roles, workflows, and metrics, and the challenge of training for MTPE.
The first part of this interactive webinar focuses on the following trio of “how-to” questions:
- How do you create a common perspective between vendors and organizations?
- How do you manage vendor concerns?
- How do you build a training protocol?
All webinar participants will be given a post-webinar survey which will be analyzed and the results presented in the second webinar on 21 May 2020. That second webinar will zero in on how we can create a common perspective on post-editing between vendors and LSPs. The results will also be used to suggest a common post-editing training protocol.
The Management and Training Challenges of Post-Editing (Part 1)
Viveta Gene
Intertranslations
THURSDAY, 07 MAY, 2020
Details
The transition from Translation Age to Post-Editing Age poses many challenges for the translation industry. LSPs need to build the role of the post-editor, define the post-editing process, and set accurate expectations for productivity and quality. This two-part webinar discusses the challenges of managing Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) including changes in roles, workflows, and metrics, and the challenge of training for MTPE.
The first part of the webinar presented the management and training challenges of Machine Translation Post-Editing in an attempt to create a common perspective on post-editing for vendors and LSPs. The webinar concluded with a survey that was made available to the attendees. This second webinar analyzes the results of that survey and presents its findings with regard to develping a common and satisfactory Post-Editing Training Protocol for both vendors and LSPs.
How to Measure MT Output Quality? A Case Study
Viveta Gene
Intertranslations
THURSDAY, 17 OCTOBER, 2019
Details
Much has been said and written about the pros and cons of using machine translation with post-editing (MTPE) to get text translated. Yet it is clear that machine translation is here to stay. Given that assumption, the most important question that arises from a business perspective is what evaluation methods can be used to measure MT output and the subsequent reduction in time and money. How is post-editing productivity measured? And how can post-editing quality assessment be applied in the modern localization pipeline?
This webinar presents a case-study that was undertaken by Intertranslations for a US-based software company in which time, cost, and quality were carefully analyzed using a practical evaluation model.
Machine Translation: From Translation to Post-editing
Viveta Gene
Intertranslations
THURSDAY, 10 JANUARY, 2019
Details
This webinar is geared towards linguists who work in the localization industry and are moving from a translation to a post-editing role. It will discuss three topics:- Define what light versus full post-editing is from a theoretical point of view, supported by practical examples
- Discuss the practical implications of neural and statistical MT for the post-editing process
- Outline how linguists can move from a translator to a post-editor role by acquiring specific transition skills
White Papers
Changing roles: from translation to post-editing Download White Paper
The Post-Editing Workflow Download White Paper
Republication adapted for the French audience by Enrico Antonio Mion may be found here.
A few words about our expert
Viveta Gene
Viveta is Translation & Localization Industry Specialist at Intertranslations S.A. With more than 15 years of experience as a linguist and vendor manager, she recently decided to combine her expertise and know-how to become a language solutions specialist. Viveta has an MA in Translation and New Technologies from the Department of Foreign Languages and Interpreting from the Ionian University. Her main focus is to promote new trends in the industry, where translation skills meet MT technology. MT tools and post-editing techniques are amongst her key fields of interest.Get in Touch with Our Post-Editing Experts Today
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