Metaglossia: The Translation World

The AutoSuggest function (AS) is one of the most interesting features in SDL Trados Studio 2009.

In recent years, machine translation has become a commonplace element in translation agencies.

As with many other small businesses, Language Service Providers (LSPs) often wade into the technology swamp without fully recognizing the difficulties and dangers lurking there. The demos we see at the many language industry conferences make it all look so easy. Many LSPs are faced with a choice of either continuing to develop and maintain a proprietary TMS or moving to one of the many available commercial offerings. This brief case study will allow you to avoid overestimating or underestimating difficulty when answering that question.

Jesus's ministry benefited from the "social network" of His day: The Roman roads. Never before in history--I'm told--was it so easy to travel. And with this ease, information could spread quickly.

How much more true is this today!

You may have already heard about the 1,000 people who "crowdsourced" Scripture translation. Isn't it fantastic that people from all over the globe can connect on the internet to translate the Bible?

Google's effort to get more people to use its Chrome browser has been paying off. For the first time, Chrome usage worldwide has surpassed Firefox usage, according to Internet metrics company StatCounter.
Chrome's share of the worldwide browser market in November reached 25.69%, an increase of 4.66% from a year earlier. Firefox came in at 25.23% while Microsoft Internet Explorer, in its various versions, totaled 40.63%.

"Promoting the Profession Starts with You!" was the theme of this year's Ordre des traducteurs, terminologues et interprètes agréés du Québec (OTTIAQ) conference on November 18. The event attracted some 400 participants to discuss ways of enhancing the professional status of certified translators, terminologists and interpreters.

Ya hace años que la traducción profesional se beneficia de las herramientas de traducción asistida por ordenador (TAO o, en inglés, CAT, computer-assisted translation). Se trata de programas (comerciales, como SDL Trados, Star Transit, Déjà Vu o Wordfast, o de distribución libre, como OmegaT o Anaphraseus) que almacenan en una memoria digital las parejas de frases (en la lengua de partida y en la de llegada) que se van traduciendo, de manera que, en el momento en que aparece un segmento parecido o igual a otro que se ha traducido antes, el programa propone la traducción ya realizada la primera vez, la cual se puede editar o dar directamente por válida si la coincidencia es total. Las memorias son reutilizables en diversos proyectos de traducción y, a través del formato estándar TMX, intercambiables entre los diversos programas que trabajan con ellas.

Videos of presentations and panels at the recent TAUS User Conference in Santa Clara are now available on YouTube for everyone.

London's leading shares reversed their earlier losses after a move by China to
cut its banks' reserve requirements lifted miners.

Suffering the sharpest fall, however, was SDL. The translation software company retreated 30½ to 609p as rival Alterian - for which SDL recently made an 110p-per-share offer - indicated that it expected double-digit revenue growth in 2013 thanks to strength in its US and Asian markets.

Les ordinateurs sont des traducteurs bon marché, rapides, mais de qualité encore insuffisante. L’OEB veut maintenant changer cela – en s’associant à Google.

La phrase n'a ni queue ni tête, elle n'est même pas compréhensible. Et elle semble ne jamais finir : "Afin de déterminer la position d'un dispositif nouvellement présenté dans un système de détection de risque, les dispositifs dont incluez un isolateur ..."

The Department of Translation of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is going to host two anniversary conferences, namely (1)”Translation between Chin...

Developers moving to the upcoming paid version of Google Translate need to follow the documentation so their implementation of the package doesn't lead them to paying for someone else's use of the platform.

Two centuries ago there was the general perception in the industrialized countries that machines were conquering the world.

With so many companies going global, there's lots of language translating going on. Cloudwords helps those in charge of that work keep track of it all.

Intertainment's Ortsbo to Acquire Interest in Israel Based, Voice Translation Technology Platform
VoiceBased Translation Enhances Ortsbo's World Leading Technology forTelephony Services, Smartphones, Computers, Tablets, Healthcare,Emergency, Social Services & Commercial Applications

Desde hace unos años, la traducción automática es moneda corriente en las agencias de traducción.

There are few studies on term extraction which take the abstract of paper as corpus. But the abstracts as papers'summary own lots of terms in the field of the subject.

Leading Cloud-Based Language Management Platform to Participate in salesforce.com’s Leading Social Enterprise Conference...

SDL has released SDL Global Authoring Management System 2010 SP2, which is said to optimize technical content for search and localization to provide a better customer experience.

SDL highlights the foll...

Esta herramienta online traduce directamente sitios web hasta en 36 idiomas diferentes.

Imagine being able to access the Internet through the contact lenses on your eyeballs. Blink, and you'd be online. Meet someone, and you'd have the ability to immediately search their identity. And if your friend happens to be speaking a different language, an instantaneous translation could appear directly in front of you.

A l’orée du XXIe siècle, le monde compte plus de 5.000 langues différentes. Si le réseau Internet a réduit les distances, le temps et aboli les frontières, du moins virtuellement, il restait cependant une barrière à franchir: celle de la langue....

Enabling better translation...

We describe a series of English->Spanish machine translation trials conducted by TAUS Labs on pharmaceutical content. Statistical MT engines were trained using Amazon Elastic Cloud [1] on corpora from the TAUS Data Association repository. The test dataset for the trials were provided by TAUS member, Medilingua [2].

TransPerfect, the world's largest privately held provider of language services and technology solutions, today announced Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification of its GlobalLink OneLink(R) solution for website localization.

This certification, an industry first for website localization technology, will ensure that all appropriate guidelines for handling sensitive client data related to online credit card transactions are followed, minimizing risks associated with transacting business over multilingual e-commerce sites around the world.