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Lokalisierung und Übersetzung / Localization
human translation. The request is sent to Yamagata over the translation
highway and the human translation will be delivered back to Honda.
Full speed on the translation highway:
The main difference between the online chat project and the warranty
project is speed: while the warranty project requires same day delivery
of the translations, the online chat project requires immediately delivery
(within 2 seconds). This means there is no time for human intervention
at all: no pre-processing, no post-processing. On top of this, Honda set
an ambitious target and requested a 90% understandability.
Quality Measurement
The warranty project went ‘live’ in December 2010. During the technical
developments, we also worked out a methodology to measure the quality
of the MT-output based on understandability levels.
Conclusion:
Technology
Next to the development of pre- and post-editing tools and the training
of the MT engines, we worked on IT integration with the Honda team, to
ensure smooth and automatic file transfer via web services: the ‘translation
highway’. Through thorough automation both by Honda and Yamagata
Europe the machine translation module plugs seamlessly into the
bigger Honda Motor Europe systems.
The biggest challenge for both Honda projects was the unstructured
source content. With a large user group as in the Honda case, it is almost
impossible to control and manage the data and text input. On the
other hand, we have experienced that controlling the source is crucial
to obtain understandable MT output. This means that training the MT
engines was only a small part of this quite complex project: controlling
or upgrading the input was the biggest challenge.
For more information please contact:
Eef Blommaart – eef.blommaart@yamagata-europe.com
Tiene Vertriest – tiene.vertriest@yamagata-europe.com
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