If you are an ordinary man or woman and you can speak English as a first or second language, you may think that language technologies are useless and produce low quality. In addition, if you are a translator you may feel like language technologies are either distracting you from the actual translation work or taking you out of business. And if you are a developer you may be fascinated by all the unutilized possibilities in the language technology field. Continue reading
Human beings are contradictory. On one hand we prefer staying in the comfort zone and keep things stable. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? On the other hand we are masters at imagining how the future might look like. Mostly these future visions include high-tech innovations and incredible machines. Language technologies (LT) also have had a significant role in many of these visions.
Translation industry is changing. Various external and internal factors put a heavy pressure on traditional translation services. The best translation or no translation approach isn’t enough for the current translation demand. The fact that there aren’t enough professional translators to translate everything with the highest quality creates some space for new solutions. 
Professional translation can be expensive especially if you have a lot to translate. While there might be a temptation to start using automatic translation, in business use the machine translation quality is rarely good enough. Professionalism is an attribute that many companies would like to present but it comes only with high quality. Thus, if think you need to cut down your translation costs but don’t want to sacrifice the quality, you should follow these three steps. 
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