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
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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
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MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYSOFTWARE SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION
Memsource latest experience in MT PE
Globally with 16 different MT providers
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MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYSOFTWARE SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION
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
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MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYSOFTWARE SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION
“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
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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
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MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYAUTOMOTIVE PARTS DATA
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
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MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYAUTOMOTIVE PARTS DATA
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
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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
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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
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MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYE-COMMERCE: PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS
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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MILENGO MT-PE CASE STUDYE-COMMERCE: PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS
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