What is Automated Translation?

Translate more content faster, at less cost

Integrate machine translation into your translation process to get maximum leverage of assets, for human post-editing, for gisting other content types.

What is automated translation?

Automated translation is the translation of text by a computer, with no human involvement. Pioneered in the 1950s, automated translation can also be referred to as machine translation, automatic or instant translation.

How does machine translation work?

There are two types of machine translation system: rules-based and statistical:

Rules-based systems use a combination of language and grammar rules plus dictionaries for common words.
Statistical systems, like those pioneered by SDL Language Weaver learn rules automatically by analyzing large amounts of data for each language pair. Theses systems can be trained for specific industries or companies using additional data relevant to the domain.

What are the benefits of using machine translation?

Machine translation can deliver benefits in different ways:

Accelerating human translation productivity as part of the translation process - by providing an initial translation for human post-editing to deliver translated content faster.
Making content easily accessible to global customers to improve customer service and satisfaction – with on-demand translation of support knowledge-base content into different languages for self-service.
Supporting more languages, more quickly to service and support existing customers and grow revenue from new markets.
Improving employee collaboration by helping employees understand non-native language communications (like emails, documents and websites) through a general (“gist”) translation of content for information discovery

What machine translation can I use?

SDL offers machine translation solutions for commercial and government organizations. These solutions have been integrated with other SDL products, as well as third party applications to enable translation in the context of other business processes. A recent integration with SDL Trados Studio tools also enables translators to experience machine translation as part of their translation environment.