Category Archives: Translation Terminology

Translation-related Terminology

A Guide to Machine Translation

Machine translation is a great tool for right situations. However, it is important to know how to use automatic translation to get the most out of it. This guide explains the essentials of machine translation: Machine Translation: What it is? … Continue reading

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3 Steps to Define Target Audience for a Localization Project

The widely used mantra in localization and translation is that one should always think every choice from the reader’s point of view.  Thus words like target audience, target market or target language are used very much when discussing about localization. … Continue reading

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Translation Terminology

This article is originally published at translation-blog.multilizer.com. Here is a collection of translation related terms with explanations. This terminology is not complete nor perfect. If you know a term which should be added to this list, please write a comment. … Continue reading

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Quality In Translation Crowdsourcing

This article is originally published at translation-blog.multilizer.com. Translation quality is one of the most important issues in translation crowdsourcing. Based on our analysis of dozens of crowdsourcing articles and cases we elaborate the quality aspect of our earlier article about … Continue reading

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What Is Software Localization?

In a previous post we discussed about translation and localization. To take this localization conversation little further, let’s talk shortly about one common term strongly related in localization. This term is software localization. Software localization means translating a piece of … Continue reading

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