1. Getting Ready for a Career in Translation Equipping Yourself with the Tools for Success
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3. Translation memory technology has allowed translation professionals to focus on what they're good at since the times of St. Jerome – transferring unique content between languages – and let the computer take care of repetitive segments and phrases.

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7. Computer-assisted translation
Specialized CAT functions
Resource lookup
Project management (desktop-based, online)
Software localization
Term extraction
Text extraction
Word counts
Conversion
Alignment
Quality assurance
Machine Translation
Comprehensive tools
Translation Environment Tools (TEnT)

8. Features of TEnTs
Leveraging new against translated content (Translation Memory)
Building and maintaining terminology databases
Working in complex file formats
Methods for analysis
Quality assurance
Project management
Workflow
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9. Word as main interface Trados 2007 (+ add. interface)
MultiTrans (+ add. interface)
Wordfast Classic
Translation Workspace (+ add. interface)
JiveFusion
MetaTexis
Similis
Snowball

10. Independent interface
Commercial Tools
Trados Studio
Heartsome
Swordfish
Star Transit
Fortis/Semantis
Across
Déjà Vu
memoQ
Publisher
MadCap Lingo
Fluency
Wordfast Pro
AnyMem
Similis
(SDLX)
Open-source Tools
OmegaT
Open Language Editor
OpenTM2
Poedit, Virtaal, Pootle

11. Browser-based interface
Lingotek
XTM Cloud
Wordbee
MemSource (David Canek)
Google Translator Toolkit
Wordfast Anywhere

12. Current developments Context-based searches
Combined TM, MT and termbase searches
Predictive typing (AutoComplete)
Subsegments
Searches in target data
Integration of external data
Browser-based interfaces
SaaS-licensing

13. Machine translation Rules-based vs. statistical Generic vs. customized
Public vs. private

14. Customizable SMT engines
PangeanMT
KantanMT
DoMT
SDL BeGlobal
MS Translator Hub

15. Opportunities MT has created opportunity to talk about translation
MT as sales tool
Increased productivity as a translator
High-level development

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18. The most fundamental translation technology feature
Access
…to external resources
…to (self-maintained) terminology repositories
…to previous translation

19. Access to external resources

20. Access to external resources
CD-ROM-based and online dictionaries
Online thesauri
Acronym databases
Websites
Corpora
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21. Tools for access to external resources
IntelliWebSearch
ApSIC Xbench

22. Other data resources TAUS (www.tausdata.org)
MyMemory (
Linguee (
EU translation corpus (
Hansards corpus (
UN corpus in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish (
Collection of many governmental sources (
OPUS (

23. Access to (and maintenance of) terminology

24. Access to (and maintenance of) terminology
External tools
MultiQA
Lingo
TaaS
Internal tools (internal to CAT tool)

27. Access to previous translation
Translation memory
Typically as part of a CAT tool or translation environment tool (TEnT)

28. It really is that simple
It really is that simple. You translate a segment, the translation memory database stores it and automatically translates every subsequent occurrence of that segment.

32. Some of the translation memory programs even store and translate shorter phrases such as subsegments.

33. What kind of CAT tool Who does the translator work for
LSP (language service provider) with existing tool
desktop-based workflow
server-based workflow
End client without tools
How does the translator work
alone
in workgroups
Cloud-based or desktop-based
security

34. Is it possible to teach all tools?
Hand out text and give very specific assigments to translate in these tools
OmegaT
Trados
Across
memoQ
MemSource
Wordfast Classic
Google Translator Toolkit
Let students give a report

35. Machine translation Rules-based vs. statistical vs. hybrid
Generic vs. customized
Public vs. private

36. Uses of machine translation
Post-editing
In combination with other translation technologies

37. Teaching of machine translation
Don't create ideologues but help your students to become passionate pragmatists

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