What are your tasks when you review the changes made to your translation by your client? The main idea is to make sure the editor did not introduce any errors. Often, client’s editors are not professional linguists, so they rely on your expertise to fix errors that are obvious to a professional translator, but are […]
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Technical problems in our line of work are frustrating, but it does not have to be this way. Last week, we had two similar situations with freelance partners, where the individual ran into problems with our files, but chose to spend time figuring out solutions instead of informing us: The first translator received a translation
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The Okapi Filters plugin makes it possible for OmegaT to use the Okapi filters. This has two advantages: Some of the filters included in the plugin, such as XLF and TXML, are different from the native OmegaT filters and can therefore be used where the native ones are less effective. The plugin has filters for
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Do you want to save on your translation? Read this article to learn about discounts applicable to translation services, and save the next time you buy translation. Volume discount Like most other products and services, translation is eligible for volume discounts. I have heard people say this should not be true, but I disagree, for
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Segmentation means breaking translatable text into the smallest translation-friendly logical pieces. Because computer-aided translation (CAT) tools segment texts using very basic rules by default (such as breaking a paragraph into two or more sentences with a period between them), the result is often suboptimal. But it should not be this way. Poor segmentation makes it
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Although I like machine translation for many reasons, I am concerned about the impact it might have on translation in general. Obviously, it is changing the landscape of the translation industry, and we translators would prefer not to have such a strong competitor. But I think there are serious drawbacks to overreliance on MT, which
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Watch this video from my latest webinar about two recent additions to OmegaT’s well-rounded set of features: Accessing the context menu in OmegaT using your keyboard Currently available in the Editor pane only, this function allows you to open the context menu by pressing the Menu key on your keyboard, thus making it possible to
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You, the client, have a large text such as a user manual that has been translated previously. Now you have made a few changes and added a few new parts to the original. You want these redlined sections translated, but you are unsure how much you should expect to pay. All you know is that
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Cross references and placeholders are words that appear as normal words in the original, but are represented by tags in CAT tools. The main challenge here is that you have limited control of what will appear in the final translation instead of those tags, making it difficult to produce a correct translation. You often need
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Let’s talk about the future of translation. Not to make predictions, but to look objectively at some of the aspects where machine translation can have an upper hand. The famous chess game between the supercomputer Deep Blue and the then-reigning world champion Garry Kasparov provides an interesting perspective from which to do this. Deep Blue
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