A combination of artificial intelligence and expertise
Machine translation means translating text automatically from one language to another. It is usually used to make the translation process more efficient; the machine first produces a pre-translated version, which is then given to a translator for postediting.
Machine translation can also be sufficient on its own if the translation does not have to be fully finished or if you just want to quickly find out what the text is about.
Lingsoft’s own machine translation technology
Our machine translation tool is based on open source machine translation technologies and we are constantly developing our machine translation tools in different languages.
We can also create customer-specific machine translation tools that are customised for the customer’s own text content. The customised machine translation tool is trained using the customer’s own materials, which enables producing even better quality cost-effectively.
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Read about the customer benefits below and take full advantage of the expertise and service offered by the leading language technology company.
Productivity
We use language intelligence solutions to eliminate friction in language processes, improve content design productivity and enhance multilingual communication.
Reliability
We are a reliable partner. We comply with security and privacy regulations and ensure that your data and content are safe. We keep our promises, regardless of whether they apply to the quality of our service or the reliability of our technology.
Interoperability
We ensure that our language services and language intelligence solutions integrate seamlessly with business processes through standardised interfaces. We also help ensure the semantic interoperability of data, which makes data management and processing more efficient.
Postediting – the most efficient way to ensure high-quality machine translation
The most high-quality translations are still produced by skilled human translators. Machine translation postediting combines machine translation with the finishing touches of a skilled professional. This allows us to provide our customers with high-quality translations quickly and cost-effectively.
The quality of machine translations has improved considerably in recent years as a result of neural network translation. Professional translators are needed particularly when translating creative texts, as humans are better than machines at interpreting and translating metaphoric expressions and other types of language use that require creative interpretation.
Machine translation is at its best when translating concrete and unambiguous texts, such as reports, manuals, and instructions.
However, postediting can also be useful in creative translation. For example, product descriptions for online shops may require creative translation, but they also contain many standard elements, such as price and VAT information. Lingsoft’s team will help you find the best combination of services for your content.
Lingsoft participated in the ELRC panel discussion on the state of language technology in Finland
The Language Bank of Finland organised an interesting workshop on the state of language technology in Finland. Lingsoft was invited to participate in an expert panel discussion, which included professors from the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku as well as representatives from other Finnish language technology companies.
The members of the panel agreed that Finland has a strong tradition in the field of language technology and that there are good prerequisites for the development and maintenance of language technology in Finland.
Lingsoft’s language technology development has a solid academic foundation, as it is based on a language structure analysis carried out by Kimmo Koskenniemi and Fred Karlsson at the University of Helsinki. Cooperation with universities remains an important part of Lingsoft’s operation.
Lingsoft’s neural network translations in the European Language Grid
In 2019, Lingsoft received funding from theEuropean Language Gridfor a project to integrate our language technology tools, including neural network machine translation tools, into their platform.
During this project, our internal machine translation tool was upgraded into a modern application solution based on Docker and SAPI technologies.
This means that customers can easily integrate Lingsoft’s neural network machine translation tools into their own solutions, for example, to support their own translators or customer service personnel or to implement multilingual archive searches.The European Language Grid supported the LSDISCOproject through an open call for pilot projects. The European Language Grid has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.