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Translating for the fire protection industry

Posted 123 days ago by John Gray

The fire protection and security industry is now Quicksilver’s strongest area of specialisation. This is largely due to our President’s experience of more than 30 years in international management positions in this industry. As Tyco International’s former Global Director of …

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The difference between TM and MT

Posted 190 days ago by John Gray

What is the difference between Machine Translation and Translation Memory? There seems to be some confusion about what, precisely, distinguishes Machine Translation from Translation Memory. This may be the result of the similarity of their acronyms in English – MT …

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Best practice: quality checking

Posted 204 days ago by John Gray

Good Language Service Providers (LSPs) generally have two or more stages of quality control. The first will be based on comparing the source and the target document side by side in the Translation Memory (TM). This enables the project manager …

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Translation Memory: data protection/copyright issues

Posted 211 days ago by John Gray

There is a growing tendency in the translation industry to ‘pool’ Translation Memories (TMs). This is partly an aspect of a broader shift towards crowd sourcing in translation and partly a result of the philosophy of online translation engines like …

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Translation Memory: optimising the translation cycle

Posted 325 days ago by John Gray

The advantages of working with a Translation Memory (TM) cannot be overstated. Although a TM is useful for just about any type of non-literary translation, they tend to work best with texts which are to some degree repetitive, such as …

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