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In the first Chilin blog entry we noted that OOV (Out-Of-Vocabulary) words were a major problem for natural language processing in general. Actually, there are also other important challenges. One is the size of the lexicon and the relevance of the subjects covered by the words. The actual requirements will depend on the target users and usage. […]

In our last Blog “Big Translation Obstacles”, we showed that a Machine Translation system with customized vocabulary can be more effective than a general system. But how do we produce such a customized system. The main ingredient are high-quality bilingual sentence pairs on the specific domain, among patents of comparable patents. These can then be

Clients who outsource their technical documents to translation service providers are very demanding. On top of asking for lightning speed delivery, they are also very particular about accuracy and fluency. Afterall, a translated passage filled with mistakes does not do much good for the professional image of the content owner. Independent translators and translation service

Two popular products of LIVAC are the annual New Chinese Buzzwords Roster and the annual Newsmakers Roster. They reflect on the life and times of the Chinese communities in the previous year. The 2020 Livac Pan-Chinese Newsmaker Roster has been released. Shakespeare reminds us that the world is like a stage and that transient players on it come and go. This

Two popular products of LIVAC are the annual New Chinese Buzzwords Roster and the annual Newsmakers Roster. They reflect on the life and times of the Chinese communities in the previous year. The 2020 Chinese New Buzzword Roster has been released. It is important to realize that the new words can baffle speakers from another Chinese community and provide a much