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Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies
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Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies

by John Yunker
August 2002
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
12h 37m
English
New Riders
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TRANSLATORS AND COMPUTERS

Computer-aided translation (CAT), like many terms in the translation industry, means different things to different people. For the purposes of this book, CAT refers to any of the following applications:

  • Computer-based bilingual and multilingual dictionaries

  • Terminology management software

  • Translation memory (TM) software

  • Machine translation (MT) software

The first three types of tools are designed to assist translators. The fourth tool, machine translation, may be used to replace translators altogether. Tools are not without their tradeoffs. When used incorrectly or inconsistently, CAT tools can cause more problems than they solve. In translation, there’s an inherent tension between speed and quality. ...

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