Localization requires a careful balance of cultural, linguistic and technical strategies. To help you step up your localization game, the Wordbee team has put together a short list of essential resources, your Hitchhiker’s Guide to the [Localization] Galaxy.
The three questions you should ask to approach the topic of terminology and ROI: 1) Is it really necessary to do terminology work before starting a translation project? 2) How much time and money should I allocate? 3) How can I reckon whether it is going to be profitable?
There is no need to start from scratch to harvest terminology: You can start with your translation memories. As a matter of fact, a translation memory (TM) is a trove of valuable terminology that can be mined either manually or semi-automatically. With small TMs, you can browse the segments and select the terms you need using the concordance function. With larger TMs, you may want to work in semi-automatic mode and take advantage of various open-source/free term mining programs.
The British linguist David Crystal has devoted a book (Language Death) to this topic. A language is dead, he writes, when no one speaks it anymore. And when there is only one last speaker of a language, that language is already dead. It’s not a tool of communication anymore, but “more a repository, an archive of a people’s past.” But this doesn’t necessarily mean total extinction.
Here is your worst-case scenario: You’ve just received the deliverables of your latest localization project from your local subsidiary and found they entered an endless amount of corrections and changes in the localized content. After recovering from the shock and discomfort for the extra work (and budget) awaiting you, you begin to wonder: What went wrong and when?
We don’t give the internet enough credit for all that it does for us. From fake news, to unreliable shoddy sources, the World Wide Web has opened up a veritable labyrinth of sources, and it can be hard to know which to trust. The quest to find terminological sources can be equally fraught. How can you possibly know which are reliable and which aren’t? First, you must know what makes a source reliable and then develop a checklist to help you pick the right terminology sources.
Writing for translation means first of all setting up the source text so that translation or localization can take place without a hitch.
What follows are a few attention points that will help you set up your source content and prepare it for translation and localization.
In this panel discussion, together with Gabriele Sauberer and Detlef Reineke, we talked talk about strategies for getting started with terminology management, benefits and challenges,
In this article we want to dig a bit deeper into terminology management and analyze how to lay out the building blocks of a termbase, i.e. the terminology entry.
we’d like to expand here the vendor manager role as centered around three main tasks: 1) Finding and selecting the resources best suited for a project; 2) Vetting and recruiting them; 3) Updating the vendor base on a regular basis
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