A recent TAUS market study reports that 52 of 129 Language Service Providers (LSPs) are already using machine translation (MT) in their production environment and 86% of the remainder informed they plan to adopt MT within two years.
This report gives an overview of the key issues met by LSP MT practitioners and includes use cases from 6 LSPs who began using MT within the last two years. Their experiences are used to outline user profiles, decision making processes, benefits (30-40% cost reduction / average 70% productivity increase), and investment required.
The report also includes LSP recommendations on what their customers, technology suppliers as well as other LSPs need to know about MT usage to overcome perceived barriers to MT take-up in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The technology business landscape
2. Four user profiles
3. Choosing a MT solution
4. The usage environment
5. Benchmarking and the decision process
6. Project size and the data question
7. Costs and time
8. Key challenges
9. Tangible gains from MT
10. Key lessons learnt
11. LSP feedback
12. Moving forward
Full report exclusively available to TAUS members >> TAUS Best Practices LSP MT July 2009
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TAUS Innovation Roadmap (June) - Complimentary report
Owning MT. Lionbridge and SDL as MT users (April)
Microsoft's Machine Translation (March)
Technical Guide to Statistical Machine Training Data (March)
Symantec's Localization Revolution (January)