case study how to quadruple e commerce localization productivity with mt postediting

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Case Study: How to Quadruple E-Commerce Localization Productivity

with MT Postediting

Jakub Szczepaniak, MilengoJosef Kubovsky, Memsource

mailto:[email protected]


MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYSOFTWARE SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION

Requirements

•Large volume online help content

•Practical experience with MT

•Reduce localization costs

•Meet tight release schedules

•High quality translations

•Efficient scalability




Memsource latest experience in MT PE

Globally with 16 different MT providers




Milengo MT Solution Features

MT-PE Pilot Project: English – GermanAssemble & clean training corpus

Relevant test & tuning sets

Evaluate quality, post-editing tests

Pricing: 27% savings

Deploy workflow

Scale up: FR, ES, IT, PT-BR

“From the client point of view, the process to make MT ready was very smooth. Milengo has done the most part.”

Kazuo Suzuki – Director, Globalization, Interactive Intelligence




“We are pretty happy about those numbers and we expect more savings in the future.”

Kazuo Suzuki – Director, Globalization - Interactive Intelligence

Benefits of MT-PE

•Efficient scalability: +4 langs, 6 months

•High quality translations

•Translator productivity increase: 30–50%

•Reduced project costs: 27–40%

•Lower post-editing rates after re-trainings

•Minimal client investment



MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYAUTOMOTIVE PARTS DATA

Client: Software Provider for Automotive Industry

Requirements

•Car parts data: ~ 300K words

•End client requests for localized data

•Cost-efficient & high quality localization

•MT testing scope

•Potential scalability

•Languages: French, German, Spanish




Milengo MT Solution Features

MT-PE Pilot project: English – French

Extensive glossary building

Normalize training data

PEX editor: automated post-editing rules

Pricing: 28% savings

Deploy workflow

Scale up: DE, ES




Benefits of MT-PE•High quality translations

•Efficient scalability: +2 langs, 3 weeks

•Translator productivity increase: 30–60%

•Reduced project costs: 28–43% savings

•300K words, 3 langs in 4 weeks

•Lower post-editing rates after re-trainings



Requirements

•19 days for new Swedish web shop launch

•780K words from Danish to Swedish

•Cost-efficient & high quality translations

•Highly automated project workflow

•Efficient scalability

MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYE-COMMERCE: PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS




Milengo MT Solution FeaturesTraining data: align bilingual content

Engine re-training in project cycle:•After 10K post-edited sentences

•Increased post-editing productivity

o From 5.5K to 8K words per linguist/8hr day

API: CMS > Translation Tools > MT engine

“Milengo came up with a time and cost estimate that would allow us to launch on time and within budget, and they

delivered on all of their promises! We had all of our content localized before the launch date and within budget.”

Daniel Srebro – Chief Analyst – Business Development, Netthandelen Holding AS




Benefits of MT-PE

•780K words localized in 17 days

•Reduced Project Costs: 62% savings

•Translator productivity increase: 8K words/day

•Highly scalable model: +2 langs, 3 weeks

•High project workflow automation

•Lower PE rates after re-trainings

“Obviously we were very happy with the process and the results and we’ve kept working with Milengo since, constantly

adding products to the catalogue in several different countries and languages.”

Daniel Srebro – Chief Analyst – Business Development, Netthandelen Holding AS




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