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Top 100 Language Blogs 2010 – Vote for Polyglot Blog!

Christine — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:34:50 +0000

I am very honored to be nominated once again in the “Language Professionals” category of Lexiophiles’s Top 100 Language Blogs 2010 contest. If you enjoy Polyglot Blog, vote for me! Don’t forget to vote also for your favorite blogs in the other categories: Language Technology, Language Learning and Language Teaching.

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Discussion forums and mailing lists for translators

Christine — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:55:40 +0000

Discussion forums

NdeT (mainly in Spanish)
Translation studies forums
Interpreters and conference interpreting
English-Spanish Translator Org

Mailing lists

In English
Lantra-L (Translation and interpreting)
Translatio (Translation studies)
Translation jobs
Spanish-English translation jobs
GlossPost – Multilingual glossary URLs
Arab Translators Network/Arab Professional Translators Society
Hebrew Translating
Malay Translation, Interpretation, Language Standardization and Localization
Spanish <> English translators
ALTAlk (for members of the American Literary Translators Association)

Translation agencies
Medical translation
Egyptian Translators and Linguists’ Association
Déjàvu-l
TranslatEXchange
Translation interpretation jobs
Arabic translators
Bulgarian translators
Freelance translators
Israeli translators forum
Jobs for translators and interpreters
Speech recognition for translators
Belgian translators
English-Spanish financial translators
Financial translators forum
Hebrew translators and interpreters
Legal translators
Romanian translators
Swiss translation
Hispanic translators
Polish translators
Babel translation jobs
Czechlist – Czech-English translators
German translations
Translator tools
SDLX
Wordfast
Spanish English translation help group
Translation projects
Chinese translation
Greek translation
Translation teacher
Translation English-German-English
Translation Japanese-English-Japanese
Babel translation jobs
Chechen language translation
Japanese-English patent translation
Turkish translations
Discussions of literary translation
Translation agency payment
Translating women
Translist – English-Spanish translation
OmegaT
MetaTexis
Honyaku English-Japanese translation
Rosetta-L
Sci.Lang.Translation
Translation jobs
Judicial interpreter and translator
Translation

In Spanish
Ibérica – lista de distribución dedicada a la traducción entre las lenguas española y portuguesa
Traductores Educador
Foro traducción
Uacinos
Medicina y traducción
El Lenguaraz
Espanhol-Portugués
Wordfast ES

In French
Traducteurs
Traduction emploi
Portugais frances
Traducteurs du Maroc
Liste Wordfast francophone

In German
Translationswissenschaft DE-ES
Zahlungspraxis
Juristische Übersetzer
PT
u-forum – u-litfor – u-cat – u-jobs

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Webportals, link collections and other resources

Christine — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:31:19 +0000

Faire traduire
Information for translation buyers (in French)

Qualitrad
Quality in translation (in French)

Tradutech
Technical translation (in French)

Profession traducteur
Profession: translator (in French)

Lost in Babel – Translation resources

Terminometro
Multilingual portal on terminology and associated disciplines

The Linguist list
Online linguistic resources

The Translator’s Home Companion
Internet resources for translators and interpreters

Tips for translators

Web del traductor jurídico
Legal translation resources (in Spanish)

Tradulex

Servicio Iberoamericano de Información para la Traducción
Iberoamerican translation information service

Interpreter training resources

Dr Maria’s Translation Clinic

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Translation and interpretation research

Christine — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:30:35 +0000

Advanced Translation Research Center (ATRC)
Saarland University, Germany

CIRIN
International information network on conference interpreting research

HISTAL – history of translation in Latin America
Research group at the University of Montreal, Canada

International Academy for Translation and Interpreting

Translation Concepts
International network of researchers working in the field of translation & interpreting concepts

TIM/ISSCO
Multilingual Information Processing Department at the University of Geneva, Switzerland

Projet Leonardo Bruni – Traduction et philosophie
Les rapports de la philosophie et de la traduction entre le seizième et le dix-huitième siècles

Centre for Translation and Textual Studies
Established in 2000, the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) is a university-designated research centre of Dublin City University. The CTTS is the leading centre for translation research in Ireland.

Progetto Boscán
Catálogo de las Traducciones Españolas de Obras Italianas (hasta 1939)

Grandes traductores de la Biblia
Great Bible translators

Centre de recherche en terminologie et traduction
University of Lyon, France

Agence universitaire de la francophonie – Réseau de chercheurs Lexicologie, Terminologie, Traduction

Joint Inter-Agency Meeting on Computer-Assisted Translation and Terminology

Translatologie – Übersetzungswissenschaft

Almutarjim
Almutarjim is a Cadi Ayyad University-based Translation Research Group devoted to the study of the theoretical and practical issues relating to translation, culture and terminology.

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Publishing houses and online libraries

Christine — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:59:57 +0000

Dicoland – La maison du dictionnaire

John Benjamins Publishing Company

John Benjamins Ebrary

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Translation bibliography

Christine — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:58:55 +0000

BITRA – Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation
Universidad de Alicante, Spain

Index Translationum
UNESCO – International bibliography of translations

Translation studies bibliography
John Benjamins Publishing Company

World Translations Index

Bibliography of Translation Studies
St Jerome Publishing

Online bibliography of Irish literature in translation and online biographies of translators of Irish literature

Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation

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Translation software

Christine — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:48:49 +0000

First of all, it is important to distinguish between machine translation (or automatic translation) and computer-assisted (or computer-aided translation). In the case of machine translation (MT), the text is translated by a computer, whereas in the case of computer-assisted translation, the text is translated by a human translator who uses computer tools to facilitate his task.
The most common computer-assisted translation tools (CAT tools) are translation memory software, terminology management tools, localization software and alignment software.

Translation memory programs

Translation memory (TM) programs are databases that store previously translated texts in bilingual translation units, usually sentence by sentence. When the translator buys such a program, the database is empty. As he translates texts using the TM, every sentence in the source language is stored in the database together with the corresponding translation as entered by the translator. If, later on, the translator has to translate a sentence that is identical or very similar to a previously translated sentence, the TM will automatically show him the previous translation which he can then reuse or amend as needed.
Many TM programs have integrated terminology management programs which allow the translator to enter his own glossaries. When a term that is included in the glossary appears in a sentence to be translated, the TM automatically shows the glossary entry.
The main advantages of translation memory programs are:

- Saving time. No sentence has to be translated twice. TM programs are particularly useful for translators who often translate similar texts, such as user manuals or software documentation (i.e. the user manual of a new version of a product is highly likely to be very similar to the user manual of the previous version).
- Numbers and other non-translatable elements such as URLs can be automatically copied into the target text. This reduces the risk of errors as the translator does not have to copy them manually.
- Terminology integration. Easy access to the stored glossary. The translator can make sure that the terminology is consistent within a text or for all texts translated for a particular client (i.e. company-specific terminology)
- Translation memory databases can be shared between a team of translators or in a translation agency.
- Since the software automatically opens each sentence one after the other, the risk of missing a sentence or a paragraph is reduced.

List of translation memory programs:

SDL Trados
MultiTrans
Déjà Vu
Wordfast
ForeignDesk
MetaTexis
Transit
Across
Babeling
OmegaT
Synthema
Cafetran
TinyTM
Felix
BTT Translator
Fusion
Anaphraseus
Similis
Heartsome
Wordfisher
Transolution
AidTrans Studio
GlobalSight
LingoPoint
MadCap Lingo
Memorg
ppt.helper (for MS PowerPoint presentations)
Swordfish Translation Editor

Terminology management programs

SDL MultiTerm
TermiDOG
TermStar
crossTerm
GFT-DataTerm
LogiTerm
Beetext Term
EDITerm

Localization programs

Localization (L10N) refers to the translation and local adaptation of software and websites. It involves translation of texts, but also adaptation to the specific market.

Passolo
RC-WinTrans
Alchemy Catalyst
Visual Localize
Lingobit Localizer
Multilizer
WebBudget
Virtaal
The Translate Toolkit
MemoQ
Okapi Framework
CatsCradle

Other software for translators

Translation 3000
PractiCount and Invoice
ErrorSpy
Translator’s Abacus
Translator’s Office Manager
Productivity tools 4 translators
Transmissions for Photoshop
Transflow
NoBabel AutoAligner & NoBabel Enhancer

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