The Dilemma with Machine Translation Selection
As Machine Translation (MT) has made remarkable strides over the years, the market is now more competitive than ever, with many machine translation providers and solutions available. The challenge, however, lies in pinpointing which MT model or solution can generate the best translation across multiple channels — this selection is crucial to maximizing translation quality and minimizing errors.
Generic benchmarks provide some level of assistance when comparing different MTs, but they have limitations when it comes to evaluating choices based on specific factors such as the domain, language pairs, and a business’s unique translation data. Moreover, running advanced offline tests on small content samples doesn’t yield reliable data, as the results don’t effectively carry over to real-world business use cases.
making an informed decision is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Introducing Unbabel’s Instant AI-Driven Intelligent MT Selection
Unbabel tackles this challenge head-on with its groundbreaking Instant AI-driven Intelligent MT selection capability. Powered by Unbabel’s Quality Estimation (QE) technology, this feature empowers users to translate using multiple MT models available on the Unbabel Platform. They can also check the quality of each model and see the common mistakes they make.
The tool is launched with several third-party models (Deepl, Google, Microsoft, ChatGPT), as well as Unbabel domain models when appropriate, and more models will be added.
Aside from the document level comparison, QE also allows us to intelligently choose the best translation for each segment. This eliminates the need to stick with a single model; instead, users can select a model which picks the best translation per segment from a set of providers.
Unbabel’s MT selection technology is a game-changer, enabling users to automatically receive the optimal MT-generated translation for any source text, substantially cutting down translation errors. This, in turn, streamlines any human post-editing phases, making them faster and more cost-effective.
In an ever-evolving global market, Unbabel is set to reshape the translation landscape, once again, by offering unmatched quality, efficiency, and, above all, empowering customers with the freedom to make, objectively, the best choice for their businesses.
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