I once had a difficult translation assignment from French to English, relating to translating a telecommunications regulation document for the EU. The timeline for completing the project was very tight, and I understood that it would be very difficult to complete the project if I thought conventionally. I did have two nights to do the […]

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I was reading an article drawn from a translation magazine where the translators’ job was compared to a spirit-channeling action. I found it very interesting from an ideological point of view. Both translators and mediums step aside and let the author of the source text speak through them; they speak in her/his own voice! I

Can Machines Beat Human Translators? Many translators, maybe most, are concerned that their profession will not last many years. They have been following the progress of machine translation and believe that sooner or later computers will translate with a quality comparable to that of a professional translator, and at lower costs, thus bringing unemployment to

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Latest Translation Software Around I’ve just read in a NY Times article published in November that IBM is working hard on a new translation software – called n-Fluent – which sounds interesting. On IBM’s website you can find detailed info about it: the development process of the software apparently involved 400,000 people, that is, IBM

About software localization About software localization… WITNESS OF A PRACTICE: While working in the software localization field for a big IT company, I figured out how sometimes translators can’t avoid bad translation renderings. I  found out that About software localization strings are translated out of context, the mainly visual context in this case. Once the translation was

What Do Translation Memories Mean For Your Business The advent of technologies enabling the recording of translation patterns for later use (translation memories) can be a definite benefit for all parties involved. For the Client, future projects can be made less expensive while the translation company saves time on projects and can increase volume. How

Linguistic Quality Assurance One way to make the concept of quality easier to deal with for linguists, is to divide it up into four parts: administrative quality, linguistic quality, business quality and cultural quality. International quality standards focus mostly on administrative quality, since it is the easiest to measure. Linguistic quality is the most important