Once a machine translation system has been tuned appropriately, it can produce far more accurate results if the input text is more consistent.

ECONOMIST: Machine translation

The biggest difference, says Dimitrios Sabatakakis, chief executive of Systran, is that the Internet makes it much easier to create a customised version of a machine-translation system.

ECONOMIST: Machine translation

So, Autodesk opted for a customised Systran system which translates search results into French, Spanish, German or Italian. (Support for Japanese is in the works.) By analysing the documents in Autodesk's database, and exploiting the fact that they are written in a consistent style, it was possible to tune the translation system to produce far more accurate results.

ECONOMIST: Machine translation

The court system's translation budget had trebled in five years.

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From his rejection of the distinction between fact and meaning flowed a system of ideas about experience, translation, learning, understanding and the notions of necessity and possibility.

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The more healthy people available to pay for those in the pool who are ill (translation- the older people), the better the system works and the lower our premium charges should go.

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Restaurants International grew system sales 13%, prior to foreign currency translation, including new-unit growth of 7%.

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If you think one translation is not very good quality, when you put a speech system at either end, it gets worse.

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