Our approach to placing choice of the Machine Translation vendor right into the localization workflow, as presented at LocWorld35 (Santa Clara, November 2017).

1. Making Machine Translation
Services Transparent and
Convenient
LocWorld’35
Intento, Inc.
November 2017

2. What’s the best Cloud MT?
EN
RU
JA
DE
ES
FR
PTIT
TR
FA
ZH
PO ?

3. What’s the best Cloud MT?
EN
RU
JA
DE
ES
FR
PTIT
TR
FA
ZH
PO ?
• depends on the
LANGUAGE PAIR
• depends on the
DOMAIN
• changes
~MONTHLY
More here: bit.ly/mt_nov2017

4. Price-Quality Options
en ru ja de es fr pt it zh cs tr fi ro
en 4 6 3 2 7 1 2 6 2 4 5 2
ru 2 3 3 4 4
ja 1 4
de 8 2
es 7 4
fr 6 1 8
pt 4
it 6 2
zh 6 4
cs 2
tr 2
fi 1
ro 4
70 %
60 %
50 %
40 %
30 %
Maximal Achieved
hLEPOR score:
No. of
top-performing
MT Providers
Minimal price
for this quality,
per 1M char:
$$$ ≥$20
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More here: bit.ly/mt_nov2017

5. Choice of the MT Engine in
the Localization Process
CTO
Lawyer Engineer Data
scientist
Roadmaps
Google added
more NMT, Yandex
changed the algo, also
DeepL launched, let’s
check it out!
(2 months
later)
…

6. Choice of the MT Engine in
the Localization Process
CTO
Lawyer Engineer Data
scientist
Roadmaps
Google added
more NMT, Yandex
changed the algo, also
DeepL launched, let’s
check it out!
(2 months
later)
…
Should be
right here

7. powered by Intento
Case #1: eCommerce Platform
Catalog
Updates
User
Reviews
Continuous Delivery Process:
• 3 types of content
• 79 languages
• 500 language pairs
4 MT Services
Monthly updated
MT Engine
Performance Tables

8. powered by Intento
Changes, updates and new
services available instantly
Case #2: Smartcat
Translator
+
Translation
project
PEMT Workflow
10 MT Services
Dynamic MT Evaluation
top-N
candidate
translations
PEMT text
reference text or
post-edited effort
recommended
engine
MT Gateway
Machine Translation

9. Intento
https://inten.to
Konstantin Savenkov
CEO Intento, Inc.
<ks@inten.to>