In our last post, we talked about specialized technical documentation, the challenges involved in the process, the criticality of terminology maintenance, and how the inappropriate use of terminology in the source documentation can affect translation quality. It is clear that terminology development and maintenance are key in effective technical content, which, in turn, is critical…
Specialized technical documentation in the form of product manuals, user guides, API or SDK documentation is created to describe the functionalities and features of a product. Creating it efficiently and accurately is a critical task which can decide how the products or features are actually used by the intended user. In this blog post, we’ll…
More and more of our clients are using neural machine translation to translate sensitive content, via online tools. What precautions should be taken, what content should be protected and how, and what quality criteria should be followed to determine if human review is needed? When it comes to translating sensitive content using neural machine translation…
Mining companies are global in nature. They operate and excavate precious resources in one part of the world and send them to other parts of the world. Their headquarters are often not located in the country of operation. Consequently, their staff are spread out throughout the world, hail from different cultures and countries, and speak…
Mining companies perform the critical job of serving the world’s energy and industrial needs. So much so that the smartphone that each one of us carries is made possible because of the rare metals mined. However, mining companies are also under pressure to perform their job in a way that is sustainable to the earth.…
Mining is a highly regulated industry. The regulations can themselves be influenced by changes in the global economy and environment. Case in point: the pandemic. However, other significant factors like rising awareness about the environmental impact of mining keeps the regulatory process dynamic. The rules also tend to be different from country to country and…
Customer Talk #3: Machine and Human Translation, a winning duo for localized digitization Recently, Laurence Roguet, Managing Director of Lexcelera, talked to Gaëlle Bou, Chief Revenue Officer of Systran, about machine and human translation. Lexcelera self-trains NMT engines and it leads to significant quality improvement. Laurence said that training an NMT engine is like teaching…
E-learning continues to be on an upward trend globally. It has opened up many an opportunity amidst the pandemic for people to pursue their professional education dreams, upskill themselves, or simply learn something new. For global companies, the online medium provides a great opportunity to continuously train their employees and keep them in sync with…
Following our post on “Why localize your training program?”, find out the best practices and tools to use for efficient localization. E-learning localization can be a complex task. Planning will make it more predictable, eliminate errors, and improve and sustain quality. Below, we list some recommendations to localize your online training materials in an optimum…
Clinical trials are very important processes for the survival and future of mankind. After the pandemic, the world’s eyes were on the clinical trials of the numerous medicines and vaccines. One can then imagine how critical the translation of clinical trial data is. It is voluminous yet needs to be done fast to meet drug…