Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Translation Hierarchy - The monetization


Let’s take an example of the domain of a large city, say San Francisco. Suppose there are eight thousand pages within the domain. If the machine translation confidently translates 95% of the pages, then 400 pages go to native speakers at a cost of 25 cents per page. If half of those need to be re-translated, then 200 pages get translated by humans at a cost of one dollar per page. Of those pages, say 40 translations have disagreement and go to an expert translator. If the cost of an expert translation is $5 per page, then the total cost is $500 for a high quality translation of the entire domain. The domain could also specify which pages on their domain need to be of higher quality than others. Some very important documents may be critical to have translated perfectly where other general information pages may be fine with a few small errors.

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