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Specialized translation
There is more than one
Most important question: For what purpose do you need the translation? We offer services for different requirements in four requirement levels: Basic, Expert, Premium and Post-Editing.
AI and humans
Post-editing
Post-editing is the post-processing of a machine translation. The translation is compared with the source text in order to correct incorrect and incomplete passages. Post-editing is therefore always bilingual.
Individual offer in 30 minutes
Hybrid translation process (human and machine)
- Each of the commercial machines has its strengths. We select the best machine for each language pair and specialist area, using reference values from research and our own measurement data.
- Better MT quality is achieved by combining machine translation with a company-specific translation memory and individual terminology databases.
- A human post-editor checks and optimizes. He compares the translation with the source text in order to correct incorrect and missing passages.
Complete post-editing for the best possible quality of machine translations
With full post-editing, a qualified post-editor compares the source text with the machine translation. He corrects missing or incorrectly translated parts of the text, spelling, grammar, style and sentence structure. The quality of a machine translation with full post-editing can be comparable to the quality of a human translation.
Toptranslation works exclusively at this level in post-editing.
Which texts are suitable for machine translation and when is a human translation the better choice?
Machine translations with post-editing are suitable for texts where the main aim is to capture the content, but where style and tone are not crucial.
These include, for example:
- internal e-mail communication
- Help texts
- technical texts such as instructions for use and manuals
- Lists of ingredients
- Info texts
- Invoices
- Contracts and non-disclosure agreements
- Comment columns in social media.
Machine translations are not suitable for texts with an external impact, where the translator's creativity is required, or for specialist texts where every detail counts.
These include, for example:
- Advertising slogans and claims
- Presentations and lectures
- Newsletter
- Brochures
- Press releases
- Scripts for TV or radio commercials
- Expert opinion
- Specialist article.
Certified according to ISO 18587
We have been certified in accordance with ISO 18587, the international standard for post-editing, since January 2021. Real post-editing projects from recent years were examined for this purpose. The ISO 18587 standard requires that the selection of post-editors is based on clearly defined standards, that there are defined measures for assessing the post-editors used and that each post-editor has the necessary qualifications:
- a formally higher translation education (recognized university degree)
or - comparable training in another field with at least two years of documented experience as a translator or post-editor
or - at least five years of documented professional experience as a translator or post-editor
