AI and technology
Leveraging AI and advanced technologies for faster translations while maintaining quality
CAT tools An indispensable part of the translation process
We use Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools to optimise our project management processes.CAT tools became more commonplace in the 1990s and 2000s and are now a must-have tool for any translator. The market boasts a wide range of options, from traditional desktop tools with online features to fully online tools which can be accessed from any location.
With powerful features like Translation Memories (TMs), Term Bases (TBs) and even Machine Translation (MT), CAT tools produce faster and cheaper translations while ensuring quality, consistency and accurate terminology.
At TWIS, we adapt to your needs, including your toolbox. Whether you already use a CAT tool or know nothing about them, we will adapt our offering and processes to reflect your requirements.
With more than 15 years’ experience, we are familiar with many CAT tools and are eager to learn about new options.
From RWS Trados Studio and memoQ to XTM and Phrase, we can adapt to any tool. And if you don’t own or use any CAT tool just yet, we’ll use our own solutions for your projects.
Translated by machines, perfected by humans
Machine Translation (MT) is a powerful tool which quickly provides fit-for-purpose translations for a wide range of project types.
Although machine translation has been around for longer than you might think, the development of neural machine translation (NMT) has led to much more widespread use of this technology. With their powerful features, NMT engines now provide good quality texts for a broad range of project types. From technical projects to marketing texts, NMT can provide excellent results when combined with the appropriate level of post-editing.
Depending on your needs in terms of quality, our expert team of post-editors can provide three different levels of post-editing:
- Light post-editing: we focus on rendering the overall meaning of the text. This is the minimum level of editing to ensure your audience understands the essence of the text, even if it contains spelling or grammar mistakes or a few inaccuracies. This can be useful for non-important internal communications, for instance.
- Medium post-editing: we ensure the meaning is successfully conveyed in the target text with correct spelling and grammar. However, style will not be improved, so the translation may be quite literal and sound unnatural. This is particularly suited to projects which don’t require a strong sense of style, such as user’s guides and technical specifications.
- Full post-editing: this level of post-editing provides a translation quality which is closest to that of a human translation. In addition to the areas of focus of the previous levels of post-editing, we also work on style to create a fluent and natural-sounding translation.
This level of post-editing is suitable for documents which have more visibility and require a more stylistic approach.
Before applying MT to your project, we begin with a sample to test the MT output and check whether MT will provide sufficient quality. Based on this initial analysis, we will determine whether MT can be used for your project; if so, we will then calculate the discount we can offer you.
AI-enabled localisation
We incorporate artificial intelligence into our translation processes to improve efficiency and quality.By using AI to automate repetitive tasks and speed up our localisation process, we can provide cheaper services while maintaining high quality. Our AI-enhanced quality assurance tools check our translations for consistency, accurate terminology and style guide conformity. These tools also maintain translation memories and terminology databases to ensure we’re using up-to-date materials for all your projects.
We can also help you with your AI projects. If you’re intending to make your own AI tool available in other languages, we can work with you to train it in the target language by translating prompts for your engine. We can also localise your block list to make sure your AI engine doesn’t respond to certain prompt types, thereby preventing the generation of problematic content for users.
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Translating for the web
SEO experts to boost your search engine positioning.
Appearing among the first results of any user’s search will inevitably increase your company’s revenue. We can help you to achieve that by optimising your source pages and by translating your content to optimise your positioning in your target languages. In this way, you’ll improve your reach and your engagement within all your markets.
Using Google Ads and other SEO tools, we look for the most appropriate keywords to ensure the best results. By including these keywords in your metadata and your website’s main pages in a natural way while applying SEO best practices, we can ensure that your content will be found easily by your intended audience.
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