Translation

Translation

The process of converting words and sentences from one language into another with the proper grammar and subject matter relevance.

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translation memory

Translation & localization; Translation

A translation memory is a linguistic database that continually captures your translations as you work for future use. All previous translations are accumulated within the translation memory (in ...

software as a servcie (SaaS)

Translation & localization; Translation

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a vendor or service provider and made available to customers over a network, typically the ...

crowdsourcing

Translation & localization; Translation

Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from ...

Acronyms, synonyms and abbreviations can cause frustration for translators, especially when attempting to translate them without a clear understanding of their meaning. Terminology management allows ...

wiki

Translation & localization; Translation

A collaborative Web site comprises the perpetual collective work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or modify content that has been placed ...

Mediawiki

Translation & localization; Translation

MediaWiki is a free and open source wiki software, used to power wiki websites such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Commons, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation and others. It also runs thousands of ...

translation memory system

Translation & localization; Translation

A translation memory system does not create a machine translation; rather, it is a method of re-using previous translations. The translation memory, a database of translations, contains sections of ...