�Faster to market: automating the translation process significantly reduces your time to market

�Budget-friendly: machine translation is the right option for fast translation of large volumes

�Smarter: Yamagata Europe enhances its translation engines for superior quality of work

�Integrated: speedy integration into your organization and its processes

�Customized: an integrated solution with add-ons, customized engines and post-editing

�Confidential: your specific translation engines are not shared with other Y-MT customers

Yamagata Machine Translation

Y-MTYour machine translation

Reaching out globally

As the economy globalizes, the need for translation has increased. Companies that boast an international presence need websites that address local markets in their own

languages. Consumer products need to come with translated documents for an

optimal user experience. Internally, or-ganizations need to communicate in a

language that their employees feel comfortable with.

Translation is often seen as a cost. But view it, instead, as an

investment in better customer service or better internal

communications. For some organizations however, engaging a

translator to translate each and every line of text is too big a cost to contemplate. This is

where machine translation comes in.

When is machine translation applicable?

Large volumes for immediate release with little or no budget

From ‘no translation’ to machine translation: machine translation can make translation affordable when there is no budget for high-quality human translation. Frequently asked questions (FAQs) are important elements to enhance the user experience of consumer electronics or domestic appliances. Using internal or external translators can get quite expensive. A combination of machine translation and human post-editing ensures a lower cost and a shorter time to market, while maintaining a consistent level of quality i.e. uniform terminology and adherence to the corporate house style.

Internal communications

Organizations produce enormous quantities of information that only have value when accessible to all stakeholders. Examples are feedback from customers in their own language or internal memos between different departments. In many cases, these documents are not translated because the cost involved is prohibitive, and the important information in them remains unused. Machine translation can provide a low-cost alternative, ensuring that all information is shared internally and delivering value to the organization.

Instant communications or Multilingual Chat

Global corporations work with employees who do not always speak the same language. Language barriers can prevent a good under-standing of email messages, internal support documentation, messages between production sites and sales offices, etc. To cope with this, in-stant, automated translation can improve com-prehension between the parties concerned. This eliminates the necessity to hire technical experts for every language used within the company. Employees can now communicate directly and without delay, allowing them to re-solve issues faster.

Refining techniquesThere are many good reasons to opt for

machine translation. However, there is no single solution to fit all needs for fast, low-cost and high-quality translation. Over the years a number of systems have been developed to automate the translation process. Techniques that are constantly being refined.

Rule-based machine translation uses a set of grammatical, linguistic and terminological rules. The quality of the output can easily be improved by adding dictionaries with new terminology.

Statistical machine translation is generated by statistical models, based on the analysis of bilingual texts provided by the customer (corpus). The corpus is dynamic: as more translations are made, the corpus grows, further reducing cost and increasing trans-lation accuracy and consistency.

Hybrid machine translation uses the strong points of rule-based and statistical machine translation, by combining grammatical, linguistic and terminological rules with statistical analysis of bilingual data. This ‘best of both worlds’ approach effectively combines statistical and rule-based translation.

Y-MT, more than MTAt Yamagata Europe, we know organizations often need more than a translation that is 60 per cent correct. That’s why we enhance the existing solutions with our expertise and know-how. Yamagata Europe employs over 25 dedicated translation professionals: linguists, developers and project managers.

Our specialists know the translation systems we are using to their core and know how to integrate and customize them. We know the importance of translation in the entire document flow in companies, large or small. Over the years we have developed a lot of in-house knowledge that has earned Yamagata Europe a top spot on the global list of translation specialists.

Putting our customers first also means that we work in close collaboration with you, building, maintaining and enhancing custom translation engines for your organization as a whole or for specific departments. Bilingual data sets resulting from Y-MT remain your exclusive property.

On top of the automated part, we offer pre- and post-editing services, a combination of machine translation and human translation, with full integration into your document workflow.

Y-MT is more than Machine Translation. It’s Your Machine Translation.

Honda uses Y-MTHonda Motor Europe Limited uses Y-MT for two different projects. Yamagata Europe gets a daily stream of data about warranty claims that have been entered into the Honda service databases in the local language of the dealers. This information is automatically translated into English and transferred back to Honda via web services. This way, QA engineers get valuable feedback in a timely fashion. In the second project, Y-MT ensures instant translation of technical chat sessions between local dealers and the central Honda technical support centre.

About Yamagata Europe

Yamagata Europe is the European headquarters of the Yamagata Group. Yamagata Europe specializes in writing, editing, illustrating, translating

and printing manuals. A broad range of industries such as informa-tion technology, automotive, consumer electronics, agricultural,

construction and medical equipment use the documentation solutions of Yamagata Europe to improve their customers’ experience.

Yamagata Europe creates multilingual documentation that works, enabling our customers to deliver products and services

worldwide. Global customers include Sony, Ricoh, Honda, Barco and Siemens, who all value Yamagata’s approach to quality.

Project management at Yamagata Europe is based on the Japanese quality principle of Kaizen. Yamagata Europe is

ISO 9001 and 14001 certified.

Visit www.yamagata-europe.com for more information.

Yamagata Europe, Maaltecenter Blok G, Derbystraat 365, 9051 Ghent, Belgium. Tel +32 9 245 48 31 - info@yamagata-europe.com

Your Machine Translation

Do you face any of the following challenges?

You have large volumes of untranslated text and a limited budget

You have large sets of Frequently Asked Questions to translate into multiple languages

You need to translate high-volume user-generated content

You have technical tender documents that have to be submitted in your prospect’s language

Your developers are using agile development methods and you want to translate all parts of the loop

If any of these apply to you, Y-MT is the solution for you. Find out more in this brochure.