Post-Editing Machine
Translation

What is Post-Editing Machine Translation?

Post-Editing Machine Translation is a hybrid process that achieves skillful human-like quality for machine translations. MT post-editing is considered one of the quickest translation ways, saving much time and achieving reasonable quality as well. This process leverages the unparalleled speed of machine translations without a complete replacement for human standards for translations. It is highly effective for bulk projects that must be delivered in a short time.

Machine Translations achieve up to 50% of the speed rate and cost more than human translations. However, Machine Translation isn’t preferred by clients due to mistranslations, improper voice tone, or wrong usage of terminology. So, to meet their high-quality expectations, the MT post-editing process started to shine in the translation field, giving a more natural and meaningful feel as human translations.

Once Machine Translation is done, human translators get to work, editing the translated text for more accuracy, clarity, and local resonance. The human touch improves the flow and clarity of machine translations, editing without drastically increasing final costs. Such human edits are mostly important for translation and localization, using the right terminology and capturing the right voice tone.

Choose Qtrans Language Solutions for MT Post-Editing

Do you need lightning-speed translation for bulk projects with a tight deadline? Do you need a more polished document better than Machine Translations alone? – At Qtrans Language Solutions, we offer MT Post-Editing services that keep you within budget and speed up turnarounds without compromising quality. With post-editing, we take advantage of the speed of machine translations, adding professional assurance of human editing. After we gain outputs from Machine Translation engines, the texts are edited and modified to a high linguistic standard, considering terminology and cultural sensitivity.

If you're struggling to find a solution to combine speed, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness, our MT Post-Editing Service will be the right option for you. At Qtrans Language Solutions, we have two post-editing strategies:

Light post-editing

In this process, our experts review and edit machine translations, eliminating any inconvenient errors or embarrassing results. The editor makes sure that the output is accurate, easy-to-understand, and conveys the right meaning of the original document. This strategy results in quick and cost-effective results.

Full post-editing

In this process, our experts check the document for any errors, ensuring high-quality, legibility, and accuracy. Aside from these key aspects, the full post-editing process also takes into consideration other aspects, including:

• 1. Consistency in style and voice tone across the whole project
• 2. Elimination of any grammatical and spelling mistakes
• 3. Appropriate usage of some idiomatic expressions
• 4. Right usage of technical terminology
• 5. Appropriate cultural approach
• 6. Right approach for the target market