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How to Save Money on Translation By Editing the Source Text

If translators had a list of FAQ's, the number one question would undoubtedly be "What can we do to cut the cost of our translations?" There are a number of answers to this question, but the simplest...

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As the global economy expands, American companies are translating large numbers of documents into multiple languages. As a technical writer, my job is to read documents in German, Italian, Danish,...

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Evaluation of Machine Translation

Many methods and measures for evaluating machine translation (MT) systems have been developed over the years. The ISLE project, funded jointly by the European Union and the US National Science...

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Evaluation of an XML-Based Content Management System in the Translation Process

Translation companies typically embrace innovations in methods for efficiently creating final formatted documents. About a year ago a client asked if we would be interested in testing and evaluating a...

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Client Language Review—The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

Your company's overseas personnel are important to its success. It's natural to want their input on translated documents. Including them in a review of the translation before it's published gives them...

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Choosing a Translation Agency

There is no single factor that will determine your best choice of a translation agency. It should not be based on price alone, because as the old saying goes, “you get what you pay for”. Nor should it...

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Benchmarking Translation Agencies

Whether you are new at the translation business or a veteran of many globalization projects, a benchmarking study of your translation supplier(s) is a worthwhile endeavor. In benchmarking, you compare...

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Where Writing and Translation Meet

Just as developing an English document may take months as it crosses the desks of subject matter experts, sales and marketing managers, and editors, so does producing translations. Documents to be...

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What Type of Translation Agency Staff is Right for You?

When you have materials that need to be translated into a foreign language, how do you decide where to send them? Your basic choice is between an agency that uses only freelance translators or one that...

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The Translation Memory Advantage

Have you ever wished you could remember everything you've written over the past few years, and reuse it whenever needed? Now that would be a valuable, timesaving tool. In the same vein, it would be...

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Translation Management: In-house or Outsourced

The suggestions that follow are culled from 10 years of experimentation and note-taking by a client in the translation game. I have tried to arrange them in logical groupings, but real coherence is...

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Taming the Translation Alligator: Or How to Facilitate Document Translation...

When the cost for translation on support documentation for a foreign sold machine continues to go up, what can be done to minimize the cost of this EU mandated requirement?

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Reducing Translation Costs

Over the past two years my team conducted an extensive review of translation process and costs, and we found a lot of ways to reduce translation time and costs. This including exploring use of machine...

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Effective Update Management in the Localization Process

Whether one is localizing documentation or translating Web sites into multiple foreign languages, managing updates is a major component of the localization process. Content development often involves...

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Machine Learning for Asian Language Text Classification

The purpose of this research is to compare several machine learning techniques on the task of Asian language text classification, such as Chinese and Japanese where no word boundary information is...

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Language Problems to be Coped with in Web Localization

Web Localization means the process of making all kinds of information on a Web site culturally, linguistically, graphically, and technologically customized to the needs of the users of the target...

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The Trouble with Translation Memory Programs

Translation memory is not a burden to be vilified, but I do think translation agencies and some TEnT developers should think long and hard about their practices. We pay for our tools – not the agency....

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Centralized Translation Processes: Overcoming Global Regulatory and...

Accurate translations of clinical trial documents play an important role in meeting global product demands. Mistakes from poorly done translations can result in product delays, cost overruns,...

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Ten Irresistible Potholes that Writers Find on the Road to Globalization

Optimizing the translation process has two basic components: improving the writers' source texts and improving the translators' process. For the moment, we'll focus on the writer's job. Dear...

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The Long Road to Embrace Domestic Multilingualism

People often ask us which commercial market is the most advanced when it comes to viewing linguistic diversity as a boon instead of a bane. Language service providers (LSPs) in other countries often...

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Active Open Source Translation Tool Projects

I don’t intend to give a complete project list. I just chose some projects that might be interesting enough to people from localization industry based on two criteria: 1. The features are useful for...

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International English Gives Satisfactory Machine Translation into Spanish

An article about machine translation was translated into Spanish by Google Translate (www.google.co.uk/language_tools?hl=en). In September 2009, professional translators evaluated the translation for...

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Translation as an Act of Communication

Includes an illustration of international professional communication, the double commitment of international professional communicators, and professionals and documentation experts.

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Using EN 15038:2006 as an Assessment Tool

If you have struggled with a good way to assess the countless translation agencies vying for your business or looked for a way to assess your current provider, you’re not alone. Companies around the...

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Dispelling the Myths of Machine Translation

It is not surprising that myths, half-truths, and misunderstandings abound regarding machine translation: It seems as if the experience most players in the translation field have with this technology...

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Automated Translation for Technical Documentation: Can it Deliver What it...

In the past few years, there has been a growing interest in using automated translation in a business environment. In the past, automated translation was mostly implemented in government and defense...

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Translatable but Debatable גורם

When there’s a decision to be made and several gormim are consulted, a complication for the translator is that a גורם can be an individual or a whole department or company. Personally I sometimes get...

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The Translation Quality Lottery

Language service providers (LSPs) the world over contend that their key differentiator is quality. If every LSP offers excellent quality, then there is no differentiation among suppliers of translation...

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A Sampling of Client Requirements and Vendor Challenges

PTC, a leading supplier of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software, derives 60 percent of its revenues from non-US markets. Quality translations at reasonable cost and quick time-to-market are...

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Recruiting Freelance Translators: the SDL Approach

It is important to use a wide variety of sources in order to maximize the reach of your search and ensure that you are making contact with the best candidates with relevant skills and subject knowledge...

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Opportunities for the Localization Job Seeker

The changing economic climate of the past few years has meant changing realities for the job seeker looking for opportunities in localization (L10n). Industry players, priorities, and technologies have...

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Managing Translation for Global Applications

Rather than dealing with globalization (a particularly vague term for many people anyway), TMS systems focus on one major consequence of going global – the need to manage multiple streams of...

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How TMS Developers Pitch Their Wares to LSPs

For those of you keeping score, TMS often gets sold under the moniker of "globalization management system" (GMS); we have long found that term to be a gross distortion of what these systems actually...

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Do the Math! The Changing Calculus of Translation

How do you calculate likely future needs for translation/localization?

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Translation Commoditization: Some Recipes for Defending Ourselves

If Oscar Wilde were alive and well and working in the localization business today, he would probably describe the “Procurement Executive” as a person “who knows the price of everything and the value of...

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Just Translate Please: a Message to the Industry

Ah, life in the localization industry ain’t easy. For twenty years now we have been preaching and proclaiming how important and precious our profession is. And still our customers won’t listen. They...

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Understanding Translation Glossaries

Choosing the right word is a deliberate decision. Making sure everyone in your company uses the same term for the same concept requires discipline. All of this becomes even more complex as you attempt...

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Writing for Translation: Internationalization Skills for Content Developers

Very commonly content developers are disconnected from the localization process, rendering them unable to contribute to the effectiveness of the process in terms of cost, efficiency and overall...

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Translation Workspace Will Take Translators To Cloud 9

An eye-opening experience with my son made me realize that our new translation workspace, will give translators the means to reach out to the cloud to work. And cloud 9, I must say. Finally, a robust...

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Translating Product Documentation

Documentation provided in the speaking language of a market is often a requirement for product launch, often adding considerable burdens to the creation of this content as a company increases its...

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XML Text Memory (xml:tm)

xml:tm (XML-based Text Memory) is the vendor-neutral open XML standard for embedding text memory directly within an XML document using XML namespace syntax. xml:tm leverages the namespace syntax of XML...

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Up-Front Translation Strategies Save Big Time Downstream

Effective delivery of content across languages requires up-front attention to three main areas: 1) translation-friendly authoring strategies, 2) leveraging of content management technologies, and 3)...

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Managing a Translation Flow: Best Practices

Managing global content combines content management and content translation processes. Each of these draws on different technologies and skills. Companies publishing multilingual information without...

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Content Management Systems and Translation Memory: Creating Management Buy-In

Your department is faced with tighter deadlines, more products in the pipeline, staff reductions, an expanded list of standard languages for a typical release as well as pressure from management to...

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Student Project: With Free Machine Translation, Is International English...

With free machine translation software such as Google Translate, is the translation of 'international English' better than the translation of 'plain English'?

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TermWiki: A New Collaborative Terminology Management Solution

The development of TermWiki provides organizations with an open-source, easy-to-use environment for managing terminology. Uwe Muegge explains the benefits of this system and how it works.

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Assessing the Overall Quality of a Document Based on Editorial Comments

Technical writers are often responsible for creating and maintaining multiple documents. In organizations where a formal editorial review is integral to the documentation process, technical writers who...

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Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Reassessing Research Agendas in Specialized...

There is a case for widening the scope of translation—and in- deed professional communication—to encompass the broader communication community as a whole because, ultimately, we are all concerned with...

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Five Models and a Challenge: Past, Present and Future of Translator Training...

Argentina has a long-standing tradition in translator training. This article has two purposes. On the one hand, it seeks to describe four translator training models prevailing in Argen- tinean...

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