Despite several companies claiming to have achieved parity with human translation this particular frontier at present remains wild and unconquered. It’s both strange and fascinating
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Studio MT plugins and GT4T
News of an article published by Mats Linder, and GT4T, an alternative to Studio MT plugins. Machine translation (MT) is an ever-present topic on translators’
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Post-editing: Blessing or curse for translators?
One is unlikely to make many friends among translators talking about machine translation (MT) – unless the conversation is restricted to deriding its stupid mistakes
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… and the winner is?
Every now and then I see an application and I think… this one is going to be a game changer for Studio users. There have
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The Tool Box Journal
A computer journal for translation professionals http://www.internationalwriters.com ©2017 International Writers’ Group, LLC
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Getting a filetype preview…
One of my favourite features in Studio 2017 is the filetype preview. The time it can save when you are creating custom filetypes comes from
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The human role in a machine-translated world
The rise of machine translation has left human translators with an uncertain future. But the translation industry cannot depend on machines alone and won’t be
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J’ai testé pour vous : la TPBox
Par Marie Surreau, étudiante M2 TSM (Master “Traduction Spécialisée Multilingue”, Université de Lille-SHS) La TPBox est un système de gestion de projet conçu pour les
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Recommendations for Translation Environments to Improve Translators’ Workflows
Jan Van den Bergh, Eva Geurts, Donald Degraen, Mieke Haesen, Iulianna van der Lek-Ciudin and Karin Coninx (2015). A full list of publications based on
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Traducteurs et interprètes : tous chômeurs en 2025 ?
« D’ici quelques années à peine, vous pourrez, grâce à la révolution numérique, converser en direct avec n’importe quel citoyen du monde ou traduire en
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How to Translate a WordPress Theme using Poedit
In this article, I will show you how to translate a WordPress theme text strings using Poedit Gettext Translation Editor. English is one the most
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Professional-Quality Translation at Light Speed: Why Voice Recognition May Well be the Most Disruptive Translation Technology You’ve Never Heard of.
I’m sort of amazed translators working into English today still type out their translations on keyboards. Hunched over for endless hours at a time, day
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Instructions for QA Checks with Apsic Xbench
Quality Assurance is one of the most important aspects in today’s translation and localization industry. In Technografia we have always used QA tools for all our
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The JSON files…
The JSON files… not really related to Jason Voorhees of course, but for some users who have received these file types for translation the problem
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Customized Machine Translation Mis-Use as a Cause of Shadow (Unpaid) Translation Work
In “Emerging Technologies As A Cause of Shadow Work”, I have reviewed how emerging technologies have a tendency to create shadow (unpaid) work. In this
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Maybe it’s buried where you put it!!
Projects, packages, segmented SDLXLIFF files, unsegmented SDLXLIFF files, source files, target files, Translation Memories, Termbases, AutoSuggest Dictionaries… are they buried deep in your computer by
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Translate Everything to Streamline Workflows
The best approach to using Machine Translation (MT) is to include it within your existing translation workflow. For many large Localisation Service Providers (LSPs), MT
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TMLookup: Translation Memory Concordancer
TMLookup is a free tool for searching translation memories and glossaries. It can handle large TMs and multilingual databases, containing millions of entries. TMLookup can
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Liste des logiciels de traduction assistée par ordinateur et outils d’aide à la traduction
Aujourd’hui, les outils de traductions (CAT tools) sont légion ! Et bien sûr on parle de tout ça sur le blog d’atenao : voici une
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Mesure de la qualité en TA – Traductologie de corpus et qualité : étude de cas
L’objectif de cet article est de proposer une réflexion sur le rôle que pourraient jouer les études menées dans le cadre des corpus-based translation studies
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Translation Skill-Sets in a Machine-Translation Age
The integration of data from statistical machine translation into translation memory suites (giving a range of TM/MT technologies) can be expected to replace fully human
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Post-Processing of Machine Translations, the New Money Maker of “the Translation Industry”
Translators are supposed to be, almost by definition, intelligent and educated people. After all, they must know at least two languages and many of them
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How Translators Can Assess Post-Editing MT Opportunities
With the continued growth in the use of MT, it has become increasingly important for translators to understand better when it is worth getting involved,
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Translation technology – What’s still missing and what has been fixed?
Letter That Was Sent in Advance to Tool Vendors I would really like to thank you again for your willingness this past year to respond
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My (layman’s) take on CAT tools: Wordfast Classic vs. Trados Studio 2014
I’ve been meaning to write about CAT tools for some time now, but before you all shoot me down in flames, I should start off
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XML translation – part 2: memoQ
In my previous post I’ve described what is XML, what is it for and what are the particular components. This time I’m going to show
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Ppt.Helper – A Real Help!
When I first saw a link to this CAT Tool on Internet, I hesitated before clicking on it. Could yet another translation software application make
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