Translation & localization

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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alignment process

Translation & localization; Machine translation

There are two alignment processes. In corpus preparation, the alignment process creates aligned data. During training, the alignment process uses a program such as MGIZA++ to ...

bleu score

Translation & localization; Machine translation

BLEU stands for BiLingual Eevaluation Understudy”. A BLEU score indicates how closely the token sequences in one set of data, such as machine translation output, correlate with ...

bilingual evaluation understudy score

Translation & localization; Machine translation

Abbreviated as BLEU score, it indicates how closely the token sequences in one set of data, such as machine translation output, correlate with (match) the token sequences in ...

corpus preparation

Translation & localization; Machine translation

Corpus preparation is the general process to extract, transform, categorize various documents from their original purpose to and align the resulting data into a parallel corpus ...

development (dev) set

Translation & localization; Machine translation

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

edit distance

Translation & localization; Machine translation

In machine translation post editing, edit distance is a measurement of the difference between two pieces of text or sentences. Informally, the edit distance between two sentences ...