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Glossaries in Machine Translation

In Machine Translation we use the term “glossary” in a different way than the traditional meaning of “an alphabetically ordered list of words with an explanation”. For us it is

March 22, 2012

What Makes Guaraní Different from Other American Indigenous Languages?

An article by Simon Romero came out this week in The New York Times discussing why Guaraní, Paraguay’s main indigenous language, has been able to continue playing such an important

March 21, 2012

Some Helpful Tips to Translate PDF Files

The process of translating MS Office documents or web pages with Trados or other CAT Tools is excellent, but many of the documents we receive to translate are in PDF

March 20, 2012

What Is the Dzongkha Language?

Dzongkha, or Ngalopkha as it is occasionally known, is the official language of Bhutan. Bhutan is a small landlocked country on the continent of Asia. A mountainous country due to

March 19, 2012

TMX: Translation Memories in XML format

In a previous post I described XML as a standard for exchanging information. There are some specific XML formats which, in turn, have become pretty much standard in the world

March 17, 2012

Indigenous Translators: Between Language and Politics

America (here including North and South America) is the second largest continent in the world after Asia. It includes no less than 35 sovereign nation-states, 1 Commonwealth and at least

March 16, 2012

Why human postediting is necessary in MT?

We read in a TAUS (Translation Automaton User Society) report: Future developmentsIn general, academic MT observers have tended to view postediting as the weak link in the MT value chain. One

March 14, 2012

Customized Glossaries for Specialized Translation

When a translator begins to work as a true career, he or she believes that the job consists of simply receiving texts to be translated without any further data on

March 12, 2012

Kill Two Birds with One…Shot?

For someone who did not grow up as being bilingual, I believe that gaining fluency or becoming bilingual is a life-long process. Often, one of the keys to sounding like

March 7, 2012

Translation: Specialty of Cultural Interpretation

“The Spanish language has to undergo massive changes in preparation for the future without borders,” warned Gabriel García Márquez in the Congress of Zacatecas 1997. This declaration from the Colombian

March 6, 2012

What Is TEP and Why Is It So Important?

Although clients are not familiar with this acronym, TEP is a cornerstone of most translation agencies’ normal work flow. It simply refers to the three most common steps of a

March 5, 2012

Telugu: Another Language of India

We have already written brief posts on some of the many languages of India, and today I will add another: Telugu This is another language belonging to the group South

March 1, 2012

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