The role of the translation project manager is mainly overseen when thinking about the translation industry, probably because it is not fully understood. In fact,
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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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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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Selected online terminology resources for translators
Terminology is crucial for our work as translators. We are continually searching for the right words – in our heads, in dictionaries or online resources,
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How I teach localization: Not like old-school translation
Teaching students how to transfer meaning from one language to another is not enough to prepare linguists for careers in technology-driven translation and localization. A
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Cómo abaratar costes de traducción en el desarrollo de software
He trabajado en seis empresas de software y en todas ellas la queja era siempre la misma: el alto coste que suponía traducir los textos
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Multilingual Big Data and Terminology
Once upon a time some translators had one or more cardboard boxes where handwritten and alphabetically ordered terms ─ including their definitions, sources, synonyms and
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Translation Memories: Should You Hold Them or Trash Them?
Old translation memories may mean that your legacy content is damaging your current content localization strategy. Should you fix them or just start over?
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What’s the difference between Translation Agency, Localization Services and LSP?
All of us have heard or read terms like translation agency, translation company, localization agency and language service provider (LSP). Many people new to translation
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Translation Resources
The Alexandria Library (A-Lib) is a training and resource centre for the language services industry. We offer webinars, e-learning and other types of resources for
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SDL Trados Studio 2014 apps explained: tweaking your translation memories
SDL Trados Studio 2014 Apps explained: tweaking your translation memories with SDL Translation Memory Management Utility, SDLTM Repair, SDLTMExport
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3 things translators can do to optimise downtimes
Found out what translators can do to get the most out of downtimes. Every freelancer experiences times when work slows down, and motivation tends to
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Pricing Techniques in the Translation Industry
In the translation industry two pricing techniques seem to dominate: cost plus and competitive pricing. Before looking deeper into these and other pricing techniques, it
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Translation memories
(e-book extract) Aside from the feature that recovers existing translations, translation memory tools also help to ensure consistency within a given text, between different translation
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Reference material
(e-book extract) The reference material to be used by the translation teams can be sent in a single batch for all the projects relating to
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