Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Efficiency of using CAT tools in comparison to using none
Poster: Milan Condak
Post title: Post-editing of machine translation
[quote]Richard Varga wrote:
... in terms of percentage, how much more efficient are you in your work thanks to CAT tools?
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I found an article "Imagining a World without Language Barriers", May 10, 2017
“A typical human translator can process approximately 300 to 400 words per hour without Unbabel,” Vasco says.
“Working in Unbabel, that same human translator can process approximately 1,200 to 1,400 words per hour — a significant increase in speed.
Source: [url removed]
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My comment:
1,200 : 300 = 400%
1,400 : 400 = 350%
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Post-editing of neural machine translation. There are no translators, there are THE editors. There is no word counting. No CATs.
Simmilar articles on mainstream technology:
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I use MT (local desktop rule-base or generic web MT) with API for CAT more than ten years. The effectiveness varies depending on subject, sentence length, and formatting.
Milan
Topic: Efficiency of using CAT tools in comparison to using none
Poster: Milan Condak
Post title: Post-editing of machine translation
[quote]Richard Varga wrote:
... in terms of percentage, how much more efficient are you in your work thanks to CAT tools?
! [/quote]
I found an article "Imagining a World without Language Barriers", May 10, 2017
“A typical human translator can process approximately 300 to 400 words per hour without Unbabel,” Vasco says.
“Working in Unbabel, that same human translator can process approximately 1,200 to 1,400 words per hour — a significant increase in speed.
Source: [url removed]
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My comment:
1,200 : 300 = 400%
1,400 : 400 = 350%
==
Post-editing of neural machine translation. There are no translators, there are THE editors. There is no word counting. No CATs.
Simmilar articles on mainstream technology:
[url removed]
[url removed]
-
I use MT (local desktop rule-base or generic web MT) with API for CAT more than ten years. The effectiveness varies depending on subject, sentence length, and formatting.
Milan