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…
Advantages And Risks Of Partial Translations By José Lázaro da Silva I have worked as a professional translator for over twenty years in São Paulo, Brazil, and sometimes I feel that the translation work is not what it used to…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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