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Contents1. Introduction
What is a CAT tool and what is it for? CAT tools and their characteristics Meaning of terms
2. Installation The program’s windows Creatind a new translation memory First operations with a TM TM options and setting
3. Workflow Preproduction Production Postproduction
4. Troubleshooting Types of problems Strategies Sources of information
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What is a CAT tool… CAT is an acronym standing for
Computer Assisted Translation. It is a software which allows to
store in a data base original texts in one language, aligned with their translation in one or more other languages.
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…and what is it for? Wordcount, obtained by
comparing the contents of a document with the contents of the data base.
Together with a word processor, it allows to use extisting translations in the data base as suggestions for a new translation.
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What is it NOT for? The concept of assisted
translation is different from the concept of machine translation
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Common featuresWord processing Management of
common formats (doc, rtf)
Management of tagged formats (html, xml)
Quality assurance
Data base Standard and
custom fields Search options Maintenance
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How do they do it? A “suite” of programs working
separately (SDL Trados) A program running inside another
(Wordfast y SDL Trados) Only one program processing both
the text and the data base (Déjà Vu, Transit, across...)
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A “suite” of programs SDL Trados Synergy 2007 Client SDLX 2007 SDL Trados Translator's Workbench
8.0 SDL MultiTerm 2007 SDL Trados WinAlign SDL Trados TagEditor and Filters
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Meaning of terms Segment and segmentation Translation unit Translation memory 100% and partial match Tags File formats Encoding Filters
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Simple workflowPreproduction Production Postproductio
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alignment analysis translation
editingclean-up maintenance