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Working paper · WP-2026-02

Buying decisions, not words

The economics of AI post-editing, run two ways for two years. In the base case the expert is paid about twice the post-editing rate per word, and by year two the program costs about half and ships a quarter of the MQM penalty points.

Updated 2026-11-10Read

Working paper · WP-2026-01

The Edit Distance Report

How much humans change machine suggestions, measured across 27 million translated segments. Context-sensitive output needs 47% less editing than neural machine translation.

Updated 2026-10-14Read