Clay Tablet Technologies, an innovator in multilingual content management, introduced an exciting new approach for updating and translating web content.
Technological hurdles and operational costs have made it impossible for all but the largest organizations to manage dynamic multilingual websites — and even they face substantial challenges. With its new products and services, and partnerships [...]
MultiCorpora, a provider of software solutions for translation support and language management, unveiled MultiTrans 4 to the language industry at the AILIA conference held in Ottawa on September 16, 2005. MultiCorpora will take MultiTrans 4 to the market with its worldwide marketing campaign, expected to last through December 2005.
MultiTrans 4 provides access to previously translated [...]
Overview
Redaction is the careful editing of a document to remove confidential information.
The Microsoft Office Word 2003 Redaction Add-in makes it easy for you to mark sections of a document for redaction. You can then redact the document so that the sections you specified are blacked out. You can either print the redacted document or use [...]
Tim Watson
Word and character counting is a subject close to the heart of all freelance translators, as it’s the basis for job costing and getting paid. This article considers some of the issues involved in word counting.
Different word processors and translation tools very often produce different word count values for the same document, though [...]
Relatively unnoticed from relevant press and online communities, Yves Champollion seems to have released a new version of his TRADOS-compatible CAT-Tool Wordfast last week. Information gathered from his unfortunately unclear and not very informative website shows that a new version Wordfast 5.1m6 has been put online for download on September, 18th 2005.
Also, Champollion seems [...]
Similis is a translation memory tool that has been quite unknown to me up to now.
It is said to run on Windows, Unix and Linux and can handle MS Word, RTF, Excel, WordPerfect, PlainText, HTML, PDF, XML, SGML. A list of supported languages can be found here.
I am not quite sure if all languages [...]
From Nov 24th - Nov 2005 the 27th conference Translating and the Computer, sponsored by the Localization Industry Standards Association, will be held at the MIC Centre in London. The conference focuses on the user aspects of translation software and attracts a wide audience which includes translators, business managers, researchers and language experts. The [...]
SDL International, a provider of translation services and technology solutions, announced the release of SDLAuthorAssistantTM 2005, which dramatically advances the quality and efficiency of global authoring processes.
With the help of SDLAuthorAssistantTM content creators can improve brand consistency and reduce translation costs by performing automated comparisons of newly created content with existing translation memories and terminology [...]
