SEELANGS Digest - 9 Jul 2014 to 10 Jul 2014 (#2014-317)

[Susan Welsh]

Subject: machine translation -= promt?

Dear Robert,

I got a trial version once, and found it very time-consuming to learn, 
train, and use. While it may be helpful for a company that translates 
large volumes of work in one subject area, I found it utterly 
impractical for an individual translator. The whole idea of it, unlike 
the free MT systems, is that you train it to translate the way you want. 
If you just "let it rip" on its own, without training it, the outcome is 
(or was, when I tried it a couple of years ago) worse than Google Translate.

They probably still have a trial version that you can use for a month or 
so and see for yourself. The main competitor is Systran, but I didn't 
try that one because there is no trial version. These are both fairly 
costly.

Best regards,
Susan

On 7/11/2014 1:00 AM, SEELANGS automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:37:48 -0400
> From:    Robert Orr <colkitto at ROGERS.COM>
> Subject: machine translation -= promt?
>
> Would anyone know this machine translation programme?
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>   http://www.promt.com/media/news/49149/
>


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