Description

• The course shows the capabilities of machine translation and familiarises you with the technology behind them.
• After a bit of not very boring theory we introduce the participants to the practice of post-editing, which can be treated as a separate service or part of the translation process.
• We discuss the evaluation of the suitability of MT for various use cases and the exciting issue of MTPE rates.

Program

1. What state-of-the-art Neural MT is really like?
2. How to use MT: to understand the content or to generate text of professional quality.
3. Post-editing exercises in popular CAT tools.
4. An overview of selected MT engines and recent offerings from MT providers. 
5. Do MT systems capture and collect what we translate?
6. Post-editing exercises with focus on the specifics of NMT.
7. How to assess whether MT helps or disturbs?
8. Pricing the post-editing (is 50% of the base rate OK or not?)
9. “MT never asks”: quality of source text, tags, OCR.
10. Discussion about issues identified by the participants and proposed solutions.

Each participant shall receive

Exercises to practise during the workshop (some in CAT tool, some without CAT).

Workshop presentation summary with key points and useful links.

Prerequisites

A computer with Internet access, speakers or headphones, optionally also a microphone (without a microphone you can still communicate via chat).