MODERN TRANSLATION TOOLS

Many companies are now striving to gain international standardization certification. To gain this, they are developing quality assessment models in translations, localization/internationalization, technical documentation and information management. Due to the re-engineering of the language industry due to globalization, companies are opting to developed procedures and checklists for terminology standardization. To properly validate technical and linguistic accuracy of terminological data, reference tools such as terminology and full text databases are used along with dictionaries and glossaries. MGE Lingual Services uses these tools for all of our translation projects.

TRANSLATION MEMORY

In it’s basic form, translation memory is a full text database where translations are recorded. Any future material that uses similar or identical text can borrow from the database. This “leveraging” of text can be beneficial not only by increasing consistency, but by reducing translation time and cost. Although these programs aid in the translation process, they are NOT considered machine translation programs. Machine translation systems actively produce language and translations based on linguistic data. A translation memory system leaves all the translating to a human translator. Basically, translation memory records segment pairs (usually a sentence). The source language segment is combined together with a target language segment. If an identical (or similar) source language segment comes up in another translation later, the translation memory program will find the previously translated segment and suggest it as the basis for the new translation. The suggestion may be either approved as it is, edited to match the current context or rejected entirely. Not only do these systems suggest “exact matches”, but also "fuzzy matches" that display similar segments that have been translated in the past.