It always amazes me how the business model of fortune-telling works. The essential part of this industry is to have plan B ready — to explain why the future does not correlate with the predictions. The machine translation (MT) industry, unfortunately, shares certain properties with fortune-telling. An average MT vendor, usually having acquired the product from someone else, provides the corporate customer with a black box. The customer uses the box. If the customer is all right with the result, everything's fine. If he or she isn't, the excuse is that there are some errors along the way ... To read this entire article you must be a MultiLingual subscriber. For immediate access to the current issue, subscribe to the digital version. Already a subscriber?

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