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Some of the the features of the recently released Wordfast Pro 2.3 are:
Wordfast Aligner™ BETA
MIF, PDF, and TTX support
Machine Translation Integration
MS Office Spellchecker option
TM Administration Module
User-Defined Segmentation
The following enhancements and fixes have been implemented in SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP2:
Enhancements
SP2 of SDL Trados Studio features a new product edition called “Starter”. SDL Trados Studio Starter users can work with project packages from the Professional edition and the Enterprise translation management systems and can also translate single documents in all supported file types with [...]
SDL released Service Pack 2 for SDL Trados Studio 2009. Some of the key updates in SDL Trados Studio 2009 SP2 are:
New! Additional support for automated translation:
Google Translate and Language Weaver available for automated translation
SDL Automated Translation continues to be supported
Supports virtually unlimited language pairs for both statistical and rules-based systems
Stores information about automated translation used [...]
Recently West Group has released the popular Black’s Law Dictionary for iPhone.
Black’s Law Dictionary is the definitive legal resource for lawyers, law students and anyone interested in legal definitions, such as translators of legal texts.
Edited by the world’s foremost legal lexicographer, Bryan A. Garner, Black’s Law Dictionary is known for its clear and precise legal definitions, substantive [...]
The new version of Kilgray’s translation memory tool MemoQ 4.0 is released.
Version 4 contains the following improvements:
Brand new text editor. The new text editor is faster, more reliable, provides the same functionality what you got used to in previous versions and much more: drag and drop, multi-tier undo and redo, compatibility with the widest range [...]
Now, the new SDL Trados Studio 2009 supports WorldServer project packages (WSXZ files). This is done by an optional plugin which needs to be downloaded and installed separately.
You can download the new SDL WorldServer Translation installer from SDL’s Translationzone website.
You may also find useful the guide: Introduction to Idiom WorldServer Desktop Workbench for Trados Users [...]
An excellent resource for British versus American English. British English A to Zed is a comprehensive guide to everyday English spoken on the other side of the Atlantic. General readers and language lovers alike will have immediate access to an alphabetical listing of more than 5,500 “Briticisms” and their correlating “Americanisms” in this fully revised and updated volume. Featured in this edition are several hundred new entries; lively discussions of British language, pronunciation, punctuation, style, usage, and culture; and special sections on units of measure, automotive terms, cricket terms, and more. For readers, travelers, and Anglophiles everywhere, this entertaining and authoritative resource is a cultural delight.
Earlier this year Language Technology Centre Ltd conducted a study on behalf of the Directorate General for Translation of the European Commission (DGT) on the size of the language industry in the European Union (see my post »»»here«««).
Now the study is over and a report is issued.
The study report gives an ample picture of the [...]
Learning Machine Translation (Neural Information Processing)
The Internet gives us access to a wealth of information in languages we don’t understand. The investigation of automated or semi-automated approaches to translation has become a thriving research field with enormous commercial potential. This volume investigates how machine learning techniques can improve statistical machine translation, currently at the forefront of research in the field.
The book looks first at enabling technologies—technologies that solve problems that are not machine translation proper but are linked closely to the development of a machine translation system. These include the acquisition of bilingual sentence-aligned data from comparable corpora, automatic construction of multilingual name dictionaries, and word alignment. The book then presents new or improved statistical machine translation techniques, including a discriminative training framework for leveraging syntactic information, the use of semi-supervised and kernel-based learning methods, and the combination of multiple machine translation outputs in order to improve overall translation quality.
The Translation Studies Reader
This definitive collection is the first comprehensive reader on the fast-growing field of translation studies. Concentrating on the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the past thirty years, Lawrence Venuti has chosen a wide range of readings on translation, placing each selection within its social, thematic, and historical context. The Reader is divided into five chronological sections, with each section prefaced by an introductory essay, a detailed bibliography and suggestions for further reading. The Reader also features a new essay by Lawrence Venuti on the future of Translation Studies.
