Machine Translation (MT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two advanced technologies that are reshaping how translation processes are managed. Although these two technologies are often associated with each other or confused, it is important to understand their fundamental differences. Such as individual...

The translation of manuals and technical materials is often a complex and laborious task that requires linguistic skills and specific industry knowledge from the professional. Timelines inevitably suffer from this complexity, which risks excessively slowing down the entire internationalization process. Fortunately,...

The news, also reported by Multilingual, has stirred considerable controversy among users worldwide. A system bug, likely stemming from a bias within the linguistic model used by Instagram (Meta) for the machine translation of content posted on the platform, mistakenly added the word “terrorists” to...

‘Women are beautiful, men are leaders’, this is the introductory title of a new study on the presence of gender biases within automatic translation engines. A lingering issue, far from being resolved even today. These gender biases occur when automatic translation or writing systems embed gender-related...

In recent months, the famous weekly of political-economic information The Economist has published an article about our world, The world of linguistic services. Johnson, the author of the text and columnist on linguistic issues, offers a vision of what the translator of the future will be. A prediction that is already...

European Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer announced at a press conference the EC’s willingness to partially automate the translation of its press review. The service will be guaranteed by the EU in-house machine translation tool “eTranslation”; and no, it will not replace the work of...

Silvia Pareschi’s reflections following a conference in the Italian Senate have sparked extensive discussions. She spoke about her profession as a literary translator, the looming sphere of influence of artificial intelligence on creative works, and the dangers of “good enough quality“. Pareschi...

Taking inspiration from recently published research on an automatic classifier capable of distinguishing these different types of output, today we want to shed light on the characteristics and peculiarities of these three forms of translation: machine, hybrid, and human. The study aims to create...

In this text we will see what is meant by post-editing (PE), when it is advantageous in the translation process and how the two main types of work – light post-editing and full post-editing – differ. Post-editing Let’s start from the beginning. The first concept on which it...