Tag Archives: Translation software

The ‘traditional’ translation cycle

Posted 45 days ago by John Gray

We have touched on what the process of translation looked like in the past. Even fifteen years ago, there was often no other option than to work with hard copies of documents, and re-type the finished translation. Apart from the …

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The ‘modern’ translation cycle

Posted 172 days ago by John Gray

Perhaps what happened was that the industry finally caught up with the potential of the new tools. Perhaps the expansion of the global economy into previously under-exploited markets led to a change in perception of the importance of translation. Or …

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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: evaluating quality in translations

Posted 231 days ago by John Gray

As with any complex technical process, different people often have very different ideas about what makes for a good translation. It is generally considered easier and less contentious to evaluate the translation of a technical document – a user manual, …

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Translating Chinese

Posted 252 days ago by John Gray

Historically, Chinese was written either vertically, from top to bottom and right to left, or horizontally, from right to left, but for many years now the official standard has been horizontally from left to right. Many newspapers, however, often combine …

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