Case Study: Implementing MT for the Translation of Pre-sales Marketing and Post-sales Software Deployment Documentation at Mycom International

摘要

An average human translator would normally produce 2400 words per day and thus take 3-4 days to translate this translation product job from scratch. This implementation shows that a fully bilingual subject matter expert, with professional translation experience, combined with excellent mastery of a commercial MT system, can complete the entire translation workflow of the translation job in slightly more than 1 day of work. This clearly shows, for this specific language direction, and on a given MT commercial tool, that the results obtained on production documents by such an individual can attain production rates that are 25%-30% of the time necessary and expected via traditional translation methods. The results of the translations have been clearly recorded in e-mail messages of congratulations on the success of both translated documents. These e-mails clearly indicate that these types of translation implementation efforts could enhance the ability for the company to write pre-sales marketing and post-sales technical documents in one language, and later translate, adapt, localize them into another language for other customers. Both translation jobs were conducted by creating a specific custom dictionary for the technical terminology of the documentation of this company. These dictionaries are usable in the Reverse (v5) family of MT software products. The dictionaries can also be exported in hard print and softcopy formats.