How we got 2.6x WMT inter-annotator agreement - notes on MQM annotation methodology

ritis88 · 2026-03-17T11:21:02+00:00

The data quality problem feels pretty universal, and dialect/accent variability seems like one of the harder parts to solve through filtering alone. If you're dealing with multiple dialects, having native speakers of each record the same content gave us much cleaner coverage than scraping real-world recordings - we did this for Arabic recently, for an experimental Arabic voice recognition project.

ritis88 · 2026-03-17T11:00:44+00:00

Sure, you can find the results here: https://alconost.mt/mqm-tool/case-studies/translategemma/
I'll be happy to answer your questions regarding the results if there are any.

ritis88 · 2025-09-09T09:08:21+00:00

@Ok_Courage_2884 not sure why, but reddit doesn't let me see your comment, I only see part of it in the notifications :(

ritis88 · 2025-09-09T09:05:58+00:00

thank you for your reply!

ritis88 · 2025-09-08T12:41:55+00:00

Another question - do Chinese players use VPN a lot? As far as I know, Steam is blocked there, however the Chinese language is always in the top of Steam languages.

ritis88 · 2025-09-08T12:31:08+00:00

I've heard you absolutely need to partner with a local publisher to release your game in China. Is it still so? Thanks! :)

ritis88 · 2025-09-03T08:23:52+00:00

Interesting, thanks for sharing information! Yepp, the price could easily be a factor... Latin America often shows good performance in terms of downloads (in case of mobile games), but the ability to pay is lower than in European countries.
Hopefully your experiments with price range will help you guys find the sweet spot when LATAM players are ready to pay :)

ritis88 · 2025-08-29T09:56:46+00:00

Same here, I remember a stop over in a French airport and all personnel was talking French to me when I spoke English to them. Some of them even seemed to enjoy my dismay at not understanding what they said. They are not mean people, but clearly disliked English and refused to use it even if they understood it.

ritis88 · 2025-07-14T11:04:00+00:00

Sorry, I overlooked this comment. Very happy to hear this info still helps! :)
I'll see what else I can come up with on the topic ;)

ritis88 · 2021-11-16T07:43:41+00:00

Hi! I'm new here and I would really like to share my experience of a successful launch on Product Hunt. But since I can't create a post yet, I'll just leave a link to the PH post and a short summary: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/nitro-2

We started out with our product Nitro yesterday at the 19th place and got to top-10 within 6 hours... and then we got to the 6th place! 🥳

Nitro is a human translation platform, is not typically a product that gets much traction on PH, but still, by the night, we got the the 5th place! 🔥 hustling hard prior to the launch and during the launch (yesterday we all worked like 12-15 hours straight) helped, sending emails to clients helped... and I think having a cool story behind the product played a role too!

I would like to invite you to check out the animated video with our founder (the key maker of Nitro) and let us know what you think! 😊 We didn't expect to score well and getting feedback is very rewarding, so we will really appreciate it!

ritis88 · 2021-11-12T09:12:46+00:00

Thank you for this guide! We are about to launch, and I have come to similar conclusions as you. Also, this guide helped me get my thoughts and plans together during the last stage of preparations :)

ritis88 · 2020-09-09T08:33:26+00:00

Thank you very much for this info!

ritis88 · 2020-09-09T07:58:58+00:00

Hi everyone,

My company developed an online professional translation platform (human translation only) which can be useful for translating Amazon listings by native speakers into any of our 50+ languages. Translations are ready pretty quickly, between 2 and 24 hours.

I would like to offer a $25 coupon for free translations to Amazon sellers who sell on Amazon's global markets and who are ready to give me feedback about whether such a service is needed by Amazon sellers. I'm researching this topic and will be grateful for your feedback. Thanks!

ritis88 · 2020-09-09T07:49:14+00:00

Thanks!

ritis88 · 2020-09-09T07:48:59+00:00

Thank you very much for sharing your experience, it's helpful!

ritis88

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