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Computer Assisted Translation

There’s nothing new here for experienced CAT tool people, as this post is more geared toward giving translation customers a clear idea of what CAT tools can mean for them.
Computer Assisted Translation, or Computer Aided Translation refers to a broad range of tools from the very simple spell-checkers and word-count features to the [...]

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Machine Translation: je t’aime… moi non plus *

Had blogs existed with the advent of the ATM machine, bank tellers would no doubt have spilled many bytes of virtual ink in an effort to disparage them. And then, little by little, a few may have come around to extoll their virtues, claiming that the new machine [...]

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Client meets translator

While applying for a teaching fellowship to France back in 1993, I needed my birth certificate translated into French, so I went to the consulate in Boston to find out how to do it. They gave me a list of translators and phone numbers and told me I should expect to pay about [...]

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