Neural Machine Translation has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. Therefore, securing a much more prominent role for post-editing in the near future.
The TAUS online Post-Editing course helps linguists get ready to take advantage of these changes in the industry. It has been created in cooperation with the academic world and prominent industry representatives, so as to offer you broadly validated and neutral information based on the latest developments in the industry.
At the end of the course, participants can download their TAUS Post-editing Certificate & Badge.
What you will learn in this course?
Benefits and challenges of the different types of available MT systems
The key aspects to consider when approaching MT and Post-Editing - from workflow to pricing
The necessary skills and best practices to become an efficient post-editor
To practice on some real-life examples of MT output
How to become a confident, commercially viable post-editor
Who takes the TAUS Post-editing course?
All LSP staff—from project managers to language technologists
Translation teachers, researchers & trainers
Established translators—to broaden their skills
Students of translation related subjects
Theory (in English for all participants) – 6 modules (approximately 3 hours of self-study at your own pace)
Module 1: Machine translation: history
Module 2: Machine translation: systems
- Rule-based machine translation
- Statistical machine translation
- Example-based machine translation
- Hybrid systems
- Neural machine translation
Module 3: Machine translation: performance
- Human assessments
- Automated metrics
Module 4: Controlled Language & Pre-editing
- Definitions and best practices
Module 5: Post-editing
- Post-editing methodologies
- Rules & principles of post-editing
- Error typology
- Skills & competencies
Module 6: Project management for machine translation
- Preparation of an MT project
- Quality control & retraining
- Pricing
Practice:
– Examples of MT raw output available in 13 languages (see the 'Available languages' tab for more details)
– 2 language-specific exercises available in 31 languages (see the 'Available languages' tab for more details)
Participants will be required to complete two exercises using the TAUS Dynamic Quality Framework (approx. 4 hours):
- Error typology evaluation
- Productivity measurement
Course Fees
The fee stated below is excluding applicable taxes (varies on your country of residence).
€ 80
(TAUS member)
€ 100
(non-member)
1 Participant
€ 600
(TAUS member)
€ 800
(non-member)
10 Participant
The course theoretical modules are administered in English, while the practical modules are available in several languages;
- Examples of MT raw output: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Exercises on Post Editing:
- English to: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Spanish to English
- French to English
- German to English
More languages are in the pipeline. Please check this page regularly. If your language is not on the list, you can request it at elearning@taus.net.
The TAUS online post-editing course is a collaboration between TAUS & various LSPs.
