The emergence of new technologies has impacted how we work. We must organize ourselves to remain productive and competitive while maintaining a high quality of translation. Ergonomics can help you achieve these goals. But first things first: what is ergonomics all about? Ergonomics (or human factors) “is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of … Lire la suite Don’t get snowed under with work
As you may already know, post-editing takes place after a text has gone through machine translation (MT), as opposed to pre-editing, which consists in making adjustments on the source text to prepare it for an MT engine and avoid any ambiguity or mistranslation. Post-editing is different from the work of a translator, whose job is … Lire la suite Post-editing: A Few Useful Tools
As a translation student, I have always been intrigued and interested in CAT tools. In this first year of my master’s degree, I have been lucky enough to have classes to learn how to use CAT software such as SDL Trados. I also learned how professional translators use them, because it’s an indispensable tool in … Lire la suite Why CAT Tools Will Never Replace Human Translators
CAT tools are increasingly used in the world of translation, to the point of becoming essential for specialized professional translators. In 2013, a survey of 3,000 professional translators showed that SDL Trados was the most widely used CAT tool in the translation market, representing a 72% market share, which is even higher than the market … Lire la suite What Role Will CAT Tools Play in the Future?
What is CAT? When we talk about Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT), we immediately think of Machine Translation (MT), since both concepts are based on the use of translation tools. However, they shouldn’t be confused. Indeed, CAT is a set of technologies whose objective is to allow the translator to translate texts with the help of computer … Lire la suite Introduction to CAT Tools
Dear reader! If you are visiting this blog today, it is very likely that you are interested in translation, at least a little! Here is a series of articles that depicts the role of CAT tools in our wonderful job. It’s very important to hear about it before you begin to work as a translator, … Lire la suite Humans and Machines
While post-editing is an important part of the translator’s work, we can wonder if post-editing will remain a part of it in the future, or if it will totally replace the translator’s work and become the main task. Post-editing means correcting a machine translation output so that it becomes readable and understandable. But there are … Lire la suite Is post-editing the future of translation?
Lastly, I have been quite overwhelmed by the Translation studies I’ve been undertaking since last September. Not because there is a lot to do – and there is – but because they had me feeling quite obsolete and … limited. If we take a look at the translation market today, three elements stand out: When considering these criteria, it’s … Lire la suite Why is Machine Translation the best Upgrade CAT Tools could Hope for?
If you don’t have any professional experience as a translator, this article is for you! As a foreign language student, I wasn’t expecting to becoming a translator, but as fate would have it, I quickly found myself in this environment. Wandering around the internet looking for a company willing to take me on as an … Lire la suite A Survival Guide to Mastering CAT Tool
Cognitive ergonomics can seem like such a blurry concept. This is not something that we are used to coming across, but you have already had a taste of what “ergonomics” is. Half the job is done, I will explain what’s left. Cognitive ergonomics focuses on cognitive functioning, which is the mental processes that are involved … Lire la suite Mind your mind
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