(1) The document discusses factors that influence machine translation business models, including language, available training data, and experience with machine translation. (2) It notes that some languages are better for machine translation than others, and that the amount of training data like text corpora impacts effectiveness. (3) Experience levels of both language service providers and their clients influence how easy it is to adopt machine translation solutions. The more experience, the more feasible integration tends to be.

1. Innovative Business and Pricing Models: for MT
TAUS Industry Leaders Forum. 6-7th June 2014, Dublin
John Tinsley
CEO & Co-Founder

2. Quality
Required
Integratio
n Needs
TM
Leverage
Buyer
Maturity
Training
Data
Languag
e
Volume
Content
Factors influencing the MT business model
High TM
Leverage
Low MT
Effectiveness

3. Language
Not all languages are created equal
French German Turkish Finnish
Spanish Chinese Korean Hungarian
Portuguese Japanese Thai Basque

4. Quality
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TM
Leverage
Buyer
Maturity
Training
Data
Languag
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Volume
Content
Factors influencing the MT business model
High TM
Leverage
Low MT
Effectiveness

5. Training Data
Corpora. Dictionaries. Terminology.

6. Quality
Required
Integratio
n Needs
TM
Leverage
Buyer
Maturity
Training
Data
Languag
e
Volume
Content
Factors influencing the MT business model
High TM
Leverage
Low MT
Effectiveness

7. MT experience
Little experience A lot of experience
Har
d
“Easy”
LSP/vendor
experience with MT
Ease of
adoption
The more experience the LSP has
with onboarding/training vendors,
and the more experience the vendor
has with MT, the more feasible the
adoption of MT will be

8. Quality
Required
Integratio
n Needs
TM
Leverage
Buyer
Maturity
Training
Data
Languag
e
Volume
Content
Factors influencing the MT business model
High TM
Leverage
Low MT
Effectiveness

9. The worst business model for
MT is accepting projects that
are destined to fail before they
ever get started.

10. Software with a Service
“Do-it-for-me” is the new “Do-it-yourself”