Technology and Tools

Computer-aided translation (CAT) tools cover a wide range of software that helps translators, including electronic dictionaries, search engines and word processing software. CAT tool in a narrow sense refers to a computer tool specially designed for translation tasks and their management, which takes translation memory technology as the core to improve translation efficiency and optimize translation process. Different from machine translation, its translation process is still dominated by human beings, and its main functions include word segmentation, translation memory, terminology database and quality assurance. Nowadays, the functions of CAT tools in the market are constantly expanding, and they are no longer a single CAT tool, but also have broad functional features. Let's take a look at the common CAT tools at home and abroad.

Second, foreign CAT tools

1. Desktop Edition

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SDL Trados is the most popular CAT tool at present, which is suitable for Windows system. It provides a complete and unified translation environment for editing, reviewing and managing translation projects and terms. It can be used offline through desktop tools or online through the cloud. Equipped with translation memory, terminology database, machine translation and other functions, supporting the import of multiple file types.

5)? Wordfast

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Snowman Cat is a cat tool developed by Foshan Snowman Computer Co., Ltd., which is suitable for Windows system, easy to use and fast. Its functions include real-time translation preview, online dictionary search, machine translation, online search, translation memory, terminology database, grammar rule customization, word frequency statistics, quality assurance, original format export and so on.

2. Online version

1)? YiCAT

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A horse. Com and Transmate are both excellent translation companies in Chengdu, and both are online translation platforms. According to the needs of different users, there are personal edition, team edition, enterprise edition, university edition and customized edition. Their main functions include machine translation, pre-translation, translation memory, terminology database and project management.

3)? Yunyike

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Cloud translator is a comprehensive online intelligent translation platform under the company. Its main functions are human-machine translation, language asset management, teamwork, QA testing and so on. When translating, you can preview the original text.

Fourth, summary.

Caterpillar tools are versatile and powerful. Online tools do not occupy memory and are convenient and quick to use, while desktop tools have more functions. More and more tools adopt the collaborative mode of online and desktop tools, which makes the translation work more synchronous and efficient. These tools seem difficult to get started, but they work on the principle of * * *. You can learn the tools you are interested in first, then draw inferences from others, slowly explore other tools, understand their respective characteristics, and choose flexibly according to different translation needs.