Translated> In hopes of more people understanding benefits of machine translation 20170827

Some clients, especially manufacturers, are hesitant about machine translation.
They will turn away even the idea of it, right away.

In regards to pricing, some clients will be interested when being proposed of match-rate discounts. For questions like "Can you lower the rates more?", I usually propose: "How about Machine Translation?". In most cases, they will respond by saying "Hmmm".

In order to spread knowledge about Machine Translation, we need to take actions by doing various information campaigns such as making press release, seminars, publish articles on magazines.

I want to make more effort on activities like that from September.

Translated> Time schedule for PSLT 2017 is up! 20170904

(This article has been originally written on September 4th, 2017)

For those attending the event, please feel free to come visit until the end.

The schedule is on here.

September 22, 2017

9:50-10:00 
Opening 

Session 1 (Chair: Katsuhito Sudoh) 

10:00-10:45
[Invited Talk] Bruno Pouliquen (World Intellectual Property Organization)
WIPO Translate: Patent Neural machine translation in 10 languages publicly available 

10:45-11:30
[Invited Talk] Masa Kajiki (MK Translation Firm)
Neural Machine Translation and Patent Translation from LSP Perspective 

[Lunch 11:30-13:10] 

Session 2 (Chair: Takehito Utsuro) 

13:10-13:55
[Invited Talk] Andrew Finch (Apple Inc.)
Statistical and Neural Models for Transliteration

PR_Notification of Establishment of “Machine Translation and Post-Editing Department” Eliminating All Human Translations

Notification of Establishment of “Machine Translation and Post-Editing Department” Eliminating All Human Translations

October 2, 2017 (Osaka, Japan)

-MK Translation Firm, a company specializing in patent translation has established a “Machine Translation and Post-Editing Department”, eliminating all human translations and delivering translations by performing post-editing after machine translation. We will be utilizing machine translation system and other various technologies to build a translation environment where machines and humans coexist. Considering recent development of artificial intelligence and translation technology, the work efficiency will improve by focusing on the combination of machine translation and post-editing. By doing so, we believe that we can provide better service to our customers. In addition, we will continue providing translation by human translation and proofreading.

[Time Schedule]

- October 2017: Establishment of Machine Translation and Post-Editing Department.

- In the same month of the same year, a part of our In-house translators will shift from being a translator to a post editor.

- January 2019: Achieving 25% improvement in production efficiency by machine translation and post-editing.

According to our internal investigation, we have determined that the “Hybrid Translation”, utilizing neural machine translation, cloud translation system, and a post editor can improve production efficiency by 20% or more compared to the conventional translation. Although there are differences in accuracy depending on the language pair in the current neural machine translation, it is believed that this problem will be resolved within few years.

Although post-editor training was a big issue, we have successfully trained post-editors internally according to our original method. By 2019, well-trained post-editors will be engaging in the post-editing tasks.

A large amount of post-editing is still required in the current accuracy of machine translation, by devoting all of the job to post-editing, we anticipate that it is possible translate 25% faster and cheaper. In addition, during 2017 and 2018, we will begin post-editing from an English to Japanese language pair. Other language pairs will start sequentially.

Contact

MK Translation Firm

Founder CEO Masanori Kajiki

Grand Front Osaka Knowledge Capital 8th Floor

eMail: info@mktrans.biz

Masa Kajiki (Mr.)

Website: https://www.mktrans.info/

SNS: Blog MT/AI/Patent Translations

About MK Translation Firm

Since its founding in 2006, the firm has translated numerous patent specifications in the field of electricity, chemistry, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical. In 2017, the firm started a so-called “Hybrid Translation” using a neural machine translation, a cloud translation system, and post-edit to boost the productivity. Firm’s founder CEO, Masa Kajiki, made public in a presentation titled “Neural Machine Translation and Patent Translation from LSP Perspective” (The 7th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation (PSLT 2017), September 22, 2017, Nagoya, Japan) that the firm would become a post-edit only LSP in 2019.

ＰＲ：「機械翻訳及びポストエディット部門」設立のおしらせ

人間による翻訳を一切排除した
「機械翻訳及びポストエディット部門」設立のおしらせ

October 2, 2017 (Osaka, Japan)

- 特許翻訳専門会社である株式会社ＭＫ翻訳事務所は、この度、人間による翻訳を一切排除し、機械翻訳の後、ポストエディットを実施して、翻訳文を納品する作業に特化した「機械翻訳及びポストエディット部門」を設立致しました。機械翻訳システム以外にも様々なテクノロジーを活用し、機械と人間とがうまく共存する翻訳環境を構築して参ります。昨今の人工知能及び翻訳テクノロジーの発達を考えると、機械翻訳とポストエディットとの組み合わせに本格的に注力することにより業務効率が高まると判断いたしました。こうすることにより、お客様に対して、より良いサービスを提供できると考えております。

尚、人間による翻訳及び校正による翻訳文も従来通りお取り扱い致します。

【タイムスケジュール】

• ２０１７年１０月、機械翻訳及びポストエディット部門設立。
• 同年同月、社内翻訳者の一部は、翻訳者からポストエディタに転身。
• ２０１９年１月、機械翻訳及びポストエディットにより２５％生産効率向上達成。

社内で行った調査では、ニューラル機械翻訳、クラウド翻訳システム、ポストエディタを活用した「Hybrid Translation」により、従来式の翻訳に比べて、２０％以上生産効率が向上することが判明しています。現在のニューラル機械翻訳では、言語ペアによって精度の差が見られるものの、数年内にはこの問題は解決されると考えられています。

ポストエディタの育成も大きな問題でしたが、弊社では、独自のメソッドにより社内でポストエディタの育成にも成功致しました。２０１９年には、「ベテラン」のポストエディタがポストエディット業務に従事いたします。

現在の機械翻訳の精度では、まだまだ大量のポストエディットが必要ですが、業務全体をポストエディット業務に専念することにより、従来より、２５％速く、お安く翻訳できることを見込んでおります。なお２０１７年、２０１８年中は、英語＞日本語の言語ペアのポストエディット業務から開始いたします。それ以外の言語は、順次開始いたします。

Contact

株式会社ＭＫ翻訳事務所

代表　梶木正紀（カジキ　マサノリ）

大阪市北区大深町３番１号

グランフロント大阪ナレッジキャピタル８階

eMail: info@mktrans.biz

Masa Kajiki (Mr)

Homepage: https://www.mktrans.info/

SNS: Blog MT/AI/Patent Translations

About MK Translation Firm

Founded in 2006. Since, the firm has translated numeral patent specifications in the field of electricity, chemistry, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical. In 2017, the firm started a so-called “Hybrid Translation” using a neural machine translation, a cloud translation system, and post-edit to boost the productivity. Firm’s founder CEO, Masa Kajiki, made public in a presentation titled “Neural Machine Translation and Patent Translation from LSP Perspective” (The 7th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation (PSLT 2017), September 22, 2017, Nagoya, Japan) that the firm would become a post-edit only LSP in 2019, which is first of its kind in Japan.