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Translation & localization
1) The converting of one language into another for the purpose of facilitating understanding and 2)The process of adapting a language for a specific country or region, or translation of a product into another language so it is marketable in a specific country or region
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source language
Translation & localization; Machine translation
The source language is the language of the text that is to be translated. Typically, this is the authored language of the text. The source language is the same as the TMX ...
target language
Translation & localization; Machine translation
The target language is the language the source language text should be translated to.
test set
Translation & localization; Machine translation
A pair of source and target language data, typically containing of several thousands of pairs used in the evaluation process.
tokenization
Translation & localization; Machine translation
Tokenization is the process of separating words from punctuation and symbols into tokens.
tokens
Translation & localization; Machine translation
Tokens are the basic unit in a machine translation process. Tokens are a sequence of characters, such as words, punctuation or symbols, separated by a space.
toolchain
Translation & localization; Machine translation
A “toolchain” is a series of linked or “chained” programming tools used in a series where the output of an upstream tool become the input for a “downstream” tool.
training corpus
Translation & localization; Machine translation
A linguistic corpus with parallel data prepared for training into the phrase table and a reordering table components of a translation model.
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