MTPE services turn raw machine translation output into usable, accurate content through a qualified human editor. Sim Trans provides machine translation post editing services to companies in Dubai and Abu Dhabi that translate at volume: product catalogues running to thousands of listings, technical documentation refreshed every quarter, supplier agreements read before a decision is taken. The engine produces a first draft. A linguist with subject knowledge then corrects meaning, terminology, register, and formatting until the text meets the standard you have specified for that file.
One boundary is worth stating early, because it saves clients time. Machine-assisted output is not accepted for sworn or attested work in the UAE.
Anything heading to the Ministry of Justice, MOFA, the RTA, DHA, MOHAP, or DoH Abu Dhabi requires a sworn human translator, and Sim Trans moves those files to certified legal translation rather than running them through an engine. MTPE is built for the other side of your workload: the high-volume, internal, commercial, and digital content where speed and cost matter and a certification stamp is never requested.
Machine translation post editing rewards experience more than it rewards technology. Knowing what to correct, what to leave alone, and when a draft is beyond repair is an editorial decision, and it is the part no engine makes for you. Sim Trans applies that judgement through a roster of 500+ linguists working across 750+ language pairs, matched to files by subject rather than by availability. An Arabic post machine editing pass on a piping specification goes to an editor who already knows the terminology; a French e-commerce catalogue goes to someone who writes retail copy for a living.
Sim Trans covers the full range of machine translation post editing MTPE work, from a light readability pass on internal material to a full editorial rebuild for content that will be published under your brand. Each level is scoped and priced separately, so publication rates apply only to the files that get published. Pick the level that matches the file, or send the batch to a coordinator and we will grade it for you.
A corrective pass that fixes mistranslations, dropped negatives, wrong numbers, and anything that changes meaning. Style and flow are left as the engine produced them. Suited to internal reports, support tickets, survey responses, and material read once and archived.
A complete editorial pass bringing the text to the standard of human translation. Terminology, register, sentence rhythm, and formatting are all reworked. Used for customer-facing pages, marketing collateral, HR handbooks, and anything published under your name.
Source files are cleaned before the engine sees them: broken segmentation repaired, inconsistent terminology aligned, legacy formatting stripped. A prepared source produces a better draft, which cuts editing hours on the far side.
Catalogues, listings, specification tables, and category pages processed at SKU volume with attribute consistency held across the set. Built for retailers and marketplaces adding Arabic, English, or a third language to an existing storefront.
Interface strings, help-centre articles, release notes, and chatbot content post-edited with placeholders, variables, and character limits kept intact. Projects requiring locale adaptation and in-context testing route through our website and software localization service.
A client glossary is built at the start of the engagement and enforced across every batch that follows. Product names, legal terms, and internal shorthand render identically in file one and file four hundred.
Big volume. Same deadline
Sim Trans post-edits high-volume files across the UAE with a human linguist on every page. Files scoped and quoted the same working day
No file leaves Sim Trans without a qualified translator having read and edited it. Buyers of MTPE translation have usually been sold unedited engine output once already, and the difference shows up in the first paragraph. Our editors are translators first, working into their native language, with the engine treated as a draft rather than an answer.
Client material is processed through controlled environments rather than public consumer tools, with access limited to the assigned editor and NDAs available on request. Legal and procurement teams ask about this before they ask about price, and the answer is documented before your first batch is uploaded.
Our workflow follows the process requirements of ISO 18587, the international standard for post-editing of machine translation output. You are quoted against a named level with a defined scope, so the deliverable is specified rather than promised. Sim Trans works to these standards without holding the certificates themselves.
The failure clients describe most often is a term that shifts halfway through a 200-file batch. Glossary enforcement, translation memory, and a lead reviewer across multi-file projects keep one term rendering one way from the first file to the last.
Some content should never go near an engine. Poorly scanned originals, handwritten notes, dense legal drafting, and anything requiring a sworn stamp get flagged and moved to full human translation or to certified legal translation [URL: Certified Legal Translation]. We would rather lose the line item than deliver a file that fails at your end.
Volume translation goes wrong in predictable places. The glossary that was agreed and then ignored. The batch that arrives on time with the numbers scrambled. The vendor who quotes a low per-word rate and then charges again for the QA pass that should have been included. Sim Trans runs mt post editing as one managed translation post-editing workflow, with a single coordinator holding the glossary, the quality level, the file schedule, and the invoice. Live language support at events sits outside this service and is handled through our interpretation services.
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MTPE machine translation post editing is the process of having a qualified human translator edit machine-generated output until it meets a defined quality standard. The engine produces the first draft; the linguist corrects meaning, terminology, and style. It is faster and cheaper than translation from scratch, and unlike raw machine output it is checked by a professional before delivery.
Light post-editing fixes errors that change meaning and leaves the style as the engine wrote it, which suits internal documents. Full post-editing rebuilds the text to human translation standard, correcting terminology, register, and flow, and is used for anything published. The two are priced separately at Sim Trans.
No. Proofreading checks a human translation for typographical and grammatical slips. Post editing translation involves comparing machine output against the source and repairing meaning-level errors, which engines produce in ways human translators do not: dropped negatives, inverted figures, and invented terminology. It demands a translator, not a proofreader.
No. The Ministry of Justice, MOFA, the RTA, DHA, MOHAP, and DoH Abu Dhabi require translation by a sworn human translator, and machine-assisted output is not accepted for these submissions. Sim Trans routes such files to its certified legal translation service rather than post-editing them.
Pricing is per word and depends on the language pair, the post-editing level, the file format, and the volume. Light post-editing costs less than full post-editing, and both cost less than translation from scratch. Sim Trans reviews a sample first and returns a fixed quote with no charges added afterwards.
Post machine translation editing moves considerably faster than human translation because the drafting stage is already complete. Turnaround depends on word count, language pair, and post-editing level, and is confirmed at quote stage. Large batches are scheduled in agreed deliveries rather than held back for a single handover.
Content written in plain, consistent source language works best: technical manuals, product listings, knowledge bases, software strings, internal communications, HR material, supplier agreements for review, and customer support content. High repetition and controlled terminology both improve engine output and reduce the editing required.
Anything requiring a sworn or attested translation, plus poorly scanned or handwritten originals, dense legal drafting where a single clause carries risk, literary and brand-voice copy, and highly idiomatic marketing. Sim Trans flags these at sample stage and quotes full human translation instead.
They perform the drafting stage, which is the part MTPE already assumes. What they cannot do is verify their own output against the source, apply your glossary consistently across hundreds of files, or take responsibility when a figure is wrong. The human edit is the service, not the engine.
It depends entirely on the provider. Consumer translation tools may retain submitted text. Sim Trans processes client material through controlled environments with access limited to the assigned editor, with NDAs available on request and retention periods agreed before the first upload
Arabic and English are handled daily. Beyond that, our network covers 750+ language pairs including Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Tagalog, and the South Asian and Central Asian languages most requested across UAE business. Engine quality varies by pair, so we assess the sample before quoting.
Send a representative sample with your language pairs, volume, and deadline by email or WhatsApp. A coordinator returns a graded recommendation, a fixed per-word quote, and a short post-edited sample so you can judge the output before committing to the full batch.
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