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  1. @laura Laura, I am running a program on April 23 on crowdsourcing localization. Want to see if you would be interested. bit.ly/HE6bAd
  2. #GALAconf Wayne Bourland points out that QA tells us noting about customer satisfaction. Problem for all QA.
  3. #GALAconf shift at PayPal from edit distance to review distance. Subtle change, still problematic, but I think the latter is much better.
  4. #GALAconf PayPal example: 52% of MT output does not need changes. But what does it mean in terms of effort to fix the remaining 48%?
  5. #GALAconf Paypal uses MT to detect problems in the source and fix them, not just for translation.
  6. #GALAconf Rubén de la Fuente presenting on why MT improves quality. Uses MT as a pseudo-loc tool to spot and fix errors in advance.
  7. @BobD_Austin @cetrainc That is a fundamental question. At present the metrics are not comparable. e.g. BLEU tells nothing abt human quality.
  8. #GALAconf MT should be in the background, a service where the user doesn't need to know the details, a natural part of the trans process.
  9. @BeatBabel who is rate limiting you? The hotel? Or are you just too quick for "teh Internets"?
  10. @BobD_Austin "process is key" Absolutely. Too many companies don't know what their processes really are and haven't optimized them.
  11. #GALAconf MT panel highlights the disorganization and competing demands that make MT deployment hard.
  12. At #GALAconf in Monaco. If you want to talk standards, look for the guy in the GALA shirt with the bow tie.
  13. #mlwlux Tadej Štajner: translate attribute helps, but somebody still has to do the tagging. Needs lang-specific intelligence for automation
  14. @polx Granted, it doesn't solve it all, but it is more than most translators get, so I see it as a step in the right direction.
  15. #mlwlux Dave Lewis speaking on importance of metadata in content localization, MultilingualWeb-LT project.
  16. #mlwlux Very interesting demo by @mathjazz of pontoon, a tool for doing in-situ localization. Solves problem of seeing context for web loc.