About time we had more source languages in Adaptive MT...?

It has almost been a year since Studio 2017 came out (9-10 months to be more specific)... One of the main reasons why I upgraded from Studio 2015 was the Adaptive MT engines... especially since I attended the Madrid Trados Roadshow and loved the idea. And today... almost a year after launch day, I cannot use that feature since we are already "waiting" for the "more source languages to come". Without being disrepectful to other languages, I would understand not having Swahili as a source language, but not having SPANISH??? Come on guys...

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About time we had more source languages in Adaptive MT...? It has almost been a year since Studio 2017 came out (9-10 months to be more specific)... One of the main reasons why I upgraded from Studio 2015 was the Adaptive MT engines... especially since I attended the Madrid Trados Roadshow and loved the idea. And today... almost a year after launch day, I cannot use that feature since we are already "waiting" for the "more source languages to come". Without being disrepectful to other languages, I would understand not having Swahili as a source language, but not having SPANISH??? Come on guys...
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0 Gary Raymond Bokobza over 7 years ago

I meant "..still waiting for..."
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0 michel gaubert over 7 years ago in reply to Gary Raymond Bokobza

Same question about another obscure language... German. What I REALLY don't understand is that, as we have German as source and French as target, why the reverse combination is not offered? Why don't we get a message when trying to use a language combination that is not accepted that this combination is not available? As Gary points out, if I were to translate from or to Swahili, I might have checked first that the language combination is accepted but German? It took me 5 minutes of sending translation for free and with no returns to the SDL Cloud to notice it wasn't working, so I disabled it. Had I been warned and asked if it was OK for me to send my translations in order to devise a better translation engine for this language combination, I would have gracefully consented. Now, I'm reluctant to do such a thing.
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0 Paul over 7 years ago in reply to michel gaubert

Hi michel gaubert ,

We are adding language combinations as quickly as we can. But it's not that simple. Returning MT is easy and we do this for all the combinations you mention. AdaptiveMT is something else altogether and this takes more effort. So we are working through the languages in the order we believe is most required. Eventually we'll get to them all.

On collecting your translations for free. We don't do this. Aside from the ethical issues, how do we know if it's any good? The translations you send to your language cloud will be used by you and you alone as part of the AdaptiveMT training for your way of working.

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Paul

Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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0 michel gaubert over 7 years ago in reply to Paul

Hi,

thanks for your answer and clarifying the topic about the use of my translation. When I looked at the language options 3 days ago, German into French was not available and now is. The same goes for Spanish, it now is available both as source and target.

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Michel
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