Expanded SaaS service now includes fully automated alignment
of legacy translations
TORONTO, Canada, April 28, 2008 – KCSL Inc. announced today a major
upgrade of its NoBabel™ Web-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform of translation
tools. The upgrade includes the addition of fully automated, high-quality alignment
to the palette of NoBabel services as well as simplification of the Enhancer project
workflow.
NoBabel Enhancer has been improved and extended with more functionality.
Account creation and payment have been simplified. After the uploading of a translation
memory file and a related, new source document for leveraging, the Enhancer optimally
combines rules-based and statistical machine translation to perform sub-segment
analysis and reconstruction to generate new, additional translation units (TUs).
Users pay only for the additional TUs.
NoBabel AutoAligner quickly creates high-quality translation memory where
none previously existed. Alignment of legacy documents is no longer a time-consuming,
boring, manual process! The automatic and accurate AutoAligner is orders of magnitude
faster than human alignment, and avoids the human fatigue factor that can result
in misalignment when using traditional alignment technology.
Valuable Addition to the Arsenal of Translation Memory Tools
Jost Zetzsche, a translation industry veteran and author of the widely read The Tool Kit
newsletter and numerous other publications, in summing up the value of the NoBabel
AutoAligner, wrote that, "The cool thing about AutoAligner is that nothing
I said in the previous paragraphs about alignment is true for this tool. It is not
manual, it is not tedious, it does not look at sentences like the other tools, and
it does not work on a file-by-file basis. Oh, and it also isn't perfect, just pretty
darn close to it. ... I thoroughly went through the first 4000 translation units
of the English > German TM and I found 3 (!) errors. I had only a cursory glance
at the
English > Chinese TM and found no error. ... Folks, this is quite something
– in fact, it's unheard of!"
and TMs