How Translation Technology Facilitates The World

The purpose of this portfolio is to introduce the basics of CAT tools.  While there are multiple CAT tools online, the CAT tool used in this portfolio is SDL TRADOS. The ultimate goal of translation technology is to reach a FA, HQ and UT translation. However, we are only able to achieve any of these two combinations.   There are two parts to this portfolio. The first is "Useful Tips for Regex with SDL Trados (QA Checker)" in which Language-Specific Regex for SDL Trados QA Checker/Find&Replace were written and verified to increase the quality and speed of the translation.  The second part is the "Team CAT Translation Project " in which we simulated a real-life scenario between the language service provider (LSP) and the client. We are required to provide a translation quote  (proposal) and attend the start-up meeting with the client. ♔Key Takeaways after Reviewing this Portfolio 1) Anticipate questions from the client and interact  2) Actively engag...

  Language-Specific Regex for SDL Trados QA Checker/Find&Replace 1.   Replace the date format in Chinese content. In Chinese, we tend to prefer  年（ year ）月（ month ）日（ date ） to show date. So for certain dates, we would like to write 2020/10/09 as 2020 年 10 月 9 日 . The first one is to identify these unchanged dates in target content and replace them. Regular Expression ： (\d\d\d\d|\d\d)\/(\d\d|\d)\/(\d\d|\d) Replace:$1 年 $2 月 $3 日 2.  From English to Chinese, sometimes, numbers are expressed as k/m/b. However, that’s not the case in Chinese. We tend to use 万（ 10k ）百万（ m ）千万（ 10m ）亿（ 100m ） The following expressions will send a warning while detected m/k/b numbers in Chinese for a doublecheck. Regular Expression: (\d{1,}[k|K])|(\d{1,}[m|M]|\d{1,}[b|B]) 3.   This Regex is to identify the English punctuation marks in Chinese content, and sends a warning when verifying translation. Regular Expression: [.,?!:“”?] ...

Overview The purpose of this project is to simulate a real-life scenario between  the language service provider (LSP) and the client. We are required to provide a translation quote  (proposal) and attend the start-up meeting with the client (Prof. Wooten). This stimulation project was conducted under SDL Trados for translation.  Team Members Our team members are  Chih-Yuan Chen, Ruby Lee and myself. For this project, our team formed an imaginary translation company called CCC Turkey Translate.  Project Specifications For this project, we imagined our client to be the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). Our goal is to translate the report on importing U.S. pork and beef that contains ractopamine. The translation for this project is from  Traditional Chinese into English and because the purpose of this translation is to be published on the official  website for the English-speaking public to read everything must be at top standard.  Proposal ✅ Downl...