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May 13, 2010

XBench

ApSIC XBench is a quality control tool created by ApSIC (a company specializing in technical translations and localization of software products). It is quite effective when searching within different linguistic

May 12, 2010

Globish

I visited the electronic version of El País the other day and was struck by one of the headlines, “Hablemos inglés, o algo parecido” (Let’s speak English, or something like

May 10, 2010

Consecutive Interpretation

Consecutive interpretation can be considered as the most recognizable form of interpretation. Spoken words are interpreted in the target language as soon as the speaker finishes speaking, or in periods

May 7, 2010

Internationalization and Localization

The terms internationalization and localization have taken on great importance in the world of translation. Internationalization is the process used to design software so that it can be easily adapted

May 6, 2010

Interpretation for Police Services

The idea to write this post came to me as I read an article on Asetrad’s (Asociación Española de Traductores — The Spanish Translator’s Association) that discussed the large number

May 5, 2010

MemoQ

Introduction I will take the opportunity in this post to give a brief introduction for another CAT tool, MemoQ, which is a suite of programs that includes a memory server

May 4, 2010

Simultaneous Interpretation

How did it start? Simultaneous interpretation, or conference interpreting, is a profession that came into being rather recently. Consecutive interpretation as a profession came into existence in the 20th century,

May 3, 2010

Consistent Terminology

Consistent terminology is one of the primary objectives that the translator as well as the editor must keep in mind at all times while executing their daily duties, though this

April 30, 2010

Systran

Background It is one of the oldest automatic translations programs on the market, and was designed in 1970 by Dr. Peter Toma. Toma started his work at Georgetown University. At

April 29, 2010

What is Interpretation?

This is a good moment to clarify exactly what is meant by interpretation. According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, “interpret” means: 1 : to explain or tell the meaning of : present

April 28, 2010

OmegaT

Is a tool used to carry out comparative language studies by using a translation memory. History of the Program It was created by Keith Godfrey in 2000. At first, it

April 27, 2010

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