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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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training data

Translation & localization; Machine translation

Linguistic texts used to train the MT engine for better quality output for specific subject fields.

training process

Translation & localization; Machine translation

Training is a process in the machine learning branch of artificial intelligence field. In the training process, a system “learns” the relationships between parallel data. In SMT, ...

translation memory

Translation & localization; Machine translation

A translation memory (tm) is parallel data that was collected for the purpose of aiding future translations.

translation model

Translation & localization; Machine translation

A “translation model” consists of one or more phrase tables, zero or more reordering tables, one or more language models and one moses configuration file that were created during ...

tuning process

Translation & localization; Machine translation

Tuning is a process that finds the optimized configuration file settings for a translation model when used a specific purpose. The tuning process translates thousands of source ...

tuning set

Translation & localization; Machine translation

A pair of source and target language data, typically containing several thousands of pairs used in the tuning process.

word aligner

Translation & localization; Machine translation

A word aligner is a program that created word alignment files during the word alignment process. Moses currently supports these word aligners: GIZA++, MGIZA++, and ...