crossTank Translation Memory:
Intelligently Reuse Your Translations
Summary
A "translation memory" is part of the core functionality of any system that assists translations.
Because it is a component of the Language Server, an integrated overall solution, the translation memory not only allows reuse of previously translated text passages, but also serves as a basis for assisting authors in the consistent creation of source texts, and for assuring the quality of both the source text and the translations.
The reuse of text segments that have been previously translated in the past is part of the basic functionality of translation memory systems (TMS), and the reason the systems have this name. The underlying principle is to save every translated sentence in a database and to compare each new sentence that needs to be translated with this database.
Upon introduction of the system, the translation memory (TM) is initially filled by importing existing data or by performing an "alignment" in which source and target text pairs are analyzed and matching sentences are transferred into the translation memory. After that, the translation memory, which is a learning system, grows with each new translation, i.e., the new sentences contained in the translation are directly accepted in the translation memory either automatically or after a prior quality check.
The translation memory can also be used and accessed in various ways:
- as a basis for automatic pre-translation of sentences that are 100% matches
- as a basis for the translator in the case of a partial match with the sentence in question
- as a basis for a concordance search (i.e., when researching the context in which a word or an expression is used)
- as a basis for translation-oriented authoring, in which the source text author selects wording variations for which a translation is already available.
The basic difference from conventional translation memory systems is that the Across Language Server acts as the central platform for all involved individuals inside and outside the company. From the in-house translator to the freelancer to the translation agency that, for its part, passes on individual target languages to external workers, everyone is working on the basis of the same consistent data.
The result is that the quality of the translations rises at the same time as significant cost reductions are achieved; depending on the redundancy of the texts in question, these cost reductions can be up to 80%.
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