POETS Day
A British English acronym that is short for “push off early, tomorrow’s Saturday” referring to the practice, particularly where a
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Post-edited Machine Translation (PEMT)
Post-edited machine translation (PEMT) involves human editing of machine translation.
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Austria uses a four digit numerical postcode system, (ie from 1000 to 9999). The first digit relates to the province
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Quality assurance (QA) tools in Trados can be used for example to check that the terminology used corresponds to that
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Regular expressions for translators are useful search tools for finding (and on occasion replacing) complex strings of characters. They can
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A Single-Person Language Services Unit (SPLSU) is an in-house language services unit consisting of a single dedicated employee.
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Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) is an XML specification for the exchange of translation memory (TM) data between computer-aided translation (CAT) and localization tools with
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A translation job that effectively costs more to arrange the procurement of the external translation than to translate it yourself.
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