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Thread poster: LaTherm
LaTherm
LaTherm
Germany
English to German
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Sep 21, 2021

Hey everybody,

i am currently working with my firm's old reference material (German to English) in Transit Nxt Professional. The quality of the translations is really bad. Therefore, I am looking for ideas of how to clean up this material in a cost-efficient and fast way. On the one hand the terminology is mostly wrong, sometimes target segments still have source text or there are spelling mistakes.

What are your ideas on cleaning up my reference material?

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Hey everybody,

i am currently working with my firm's old reference material (German to English) in Transit Nxt Professional. The quality of the translations is really bad. Therefore, I am looking for ideas of how to clean up this material in a cost-efficient and fast way. On the one hand the terminology is mostly wrong, sometimes target segments still have source text or there are spelling mistakes.

What are your ideas on cleaning up my reference material?

Looking forward to your ideas.
All the best. ▲ Collapse
 
Abdullah Hassaan
Abdullah Hassaan  Identity Verified
Egypt
Local time: 06:27
Member (2013)
English to Arabic
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I'm a previous Project Manager at STAR Group and might be able to help! Sep 22, 2021

Hello LaTherm,
I'm a previous Translator and Project Manager at STAR Group and might be able to help you!
First, I need to get more details from you to find out which workarounds could work in your case.

Please feel free to contact me to discuss the possible options to answer your question! For example, using Reg. Ex. filters could be a way to find specific segments and parts in both the REF materials and the new texts\terminology as well.

This is my email: ... See more
Hello LaTherm,
I'm a previous Translator and Project Manager at STAR Group and might be able to help you!
First, I need to get more details from you to find out which workarounds could work in your case.

Please feel free to contact me to discuss the possible options to answer your question! For example, using Reg. Ex. filters could be a way to find specific segments and parts in both the REF materials and the new texts\terminology as well.

This is my email: [email protected]
And that is my Whatspp no.: +20 100 913 7131

Looking forward to helping you!

Best regards
Abdullah Hassaan ▲ Collapse
 
CafeTran Trainer
CafeTran Trainer
Netherlands
Member (2006)
On the fly Sep 23, 2021

LaTherm wrote:

What are your ideas on cleaning up my reference material?



You could, of course, run Transit's QA checks (including spell-checking and terminology verification) but you would waste a lot of time on TUs that you'll probably never use again.

So my approach would be to correct errors on the fly (during the translation process), when you see them in the Concordance or in the inserted suggestion from the TM.

As you know, Transit offers features to Find and Replace in, or directly edit the reference files.
 


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