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Why you may fail in 2019

Why you may fail in 2019

Pieter Beens Pieter Beens
Posts on social media timelines seem to all carry the same message: succeed, win, and gain power, influence, and new
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Three Incredibly Effective Ways to Fail Your Communication With Fellow Translators

Three Incredibly Effective Ways to Fail Your Communication With Fellow Translators

Simon Akhrameev Simon Akhrameev
I receive messages from translators willing to work with me almost every day and there is nothing bad in trying to estab
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An embarrassing translation contest

An embarrassing translation contest

Pieter Beens Pieter Beens
Participating in a contest offers a great chance to show off your capabilities and hone your skills. That is one of the
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The limitations of a quality assessment

The limitations of a quality assessment

Pieter Beens Pieter Beens
There are many tools available to assure the quality of a translation, both automated and by means of a human interventi
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Post-Editing...

Post-Editing...

Gert Van Assche Gert Van Assche
In the past years I've been evaluating machine translation output extensively. I started to do this because I was curiou
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The translation engine thinks more and more like a human

The translation engine thinks more and more like a human

Pieter Beens Pieter Beens
Google Translate has been the undisputed source for anyone who wants to quickly translate a text for years. Nevertheless
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