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Bike Inside Trados Delivery Project

  I grouped together with 3 other translators to simulate a Trados delivery project from beginning to end to learn about Trados's challenges and setbacks in more depth. The project included creating a SOW/work proposal based on CAT tool analysis, pseudo-translation, establishing a Style Guide, a glossary, and TMs, delivering the final language packages, and recording a video on lessons learned. Follow along with our experiences of the creation of a Trados delivery project for localizing a short text from the website "Bike Inside" divided into 4 languages. The translation process simulates the experience of translating in a small, in-house translation team or in a small group of associated freelancers. Introduction WHAT IS TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY? Translation Technology refers to technologies that are important in management, engineering, and linguistic roles in translation and localization, including various tools that aid the process of translation and editing workflows. ...

Me and RegEx

  What is RegEx? Regex or Regular Expressions is not a programming language but more pattern identification. Its main purpose is quality check in translated or other texts and documents. According to Riccardo Schiaffino, RegEx "is a search-and-replace function on steroids. Regular expressions can assist our translation work by allowing us to search, replace, and filter text in ways that would otherwise be impossible in our software tools." ( https://www.ata-chronicle.online/highlights/regular-expressions-an-introduction-for-translators/ If you are a linguist or have some affinity for languages, you will pick up regex quickly, after some trials and errors.:) For us, translators, regex is important because CAT tools use regular expressions for creating segmentation and auto-translation rules. See below my first attempts to create some basic rules that can be used for Hungarian translations. RegEx for English to Hungarian Translations Example 1: Hungarian (or other names) with m...