Each domain, and even individual clients within a domain has its own specific or preferred terminology and vocabulary. Language Studio™ allows you to control terminology and vocabulary with:

• Glossaries – can be applied to an entire project or a single translation job. Glossaries can be added to at any time.
• Non-Translatable Terms – can be specified so that essential terms remain in the original language. This is especially important for product, company and people names and locations.
• Translation Memories – can be used to automatically learn key terminology. Leverage your existing translation assets to quickly build terminology without the need for human effort.
• Post-Translation Normalization – can be applied to terms that may vary or where a customer prefers to use a specific phrase. For example, 4 clients are all in the same domain (Information Technology) and are using one custom translation engine. Each client can normalize terms to its preferred form: Database / Relational Database / Relational Database Management System / RDBMS.

Avoid post-editor frustration of having to repeat the same corrections multiple times. Language Studio™ provides a variety of means to control capitalization:

• Translation Memories – provide an automated means to learn capitalization from your existing translation assets.
• Source Sentence Matching – ensures that when a word is capitalized in the source text that is being translated, the capitalization is mapped to the translated phrase in the target translation.
• Monolingual Data – can be used as learning material for various industry specific forms of capitalization.
• Post Translation Capitalization – can be applied for specific customers to ensure that words are only capitalized when they are used in a specified context. Example: "Catch the ICE International train from Brussels to Frankfurt International Airport." vs. "There was ice on the road along the international border."

A key task in human translation projects is to define the style guide. Language Studio™ also uses a style guide in the form of examples from existing high quality text written in the style that is desired by the client. Writing style information is automatically extracted from examples of writing in the target language. Examples can come from a variety of sources:

• Translation Memories – provide an essential source of writing patterns through the previous translations for a client.
• Monolingual Data – that the client may already have in the target language is very good content to learn from. The best learning material is material that was originally authored in the target language by the client and was therefore not influenced by the translation process. Mother tongue source text is often readily available.
• Similar Content – from other sources can be analyzed for writing style and to learn how industry specific terms can be used within a sentence structure.

Whether you start without any learning material or with large volumes of learning material (Translation Memories, Glossaries, etc.) Language Studio™ helps you to rapidly evolve your custom translation engines to near-human quality.

The unique Language Studio™ human feedback loop where every edit that is made helps to improve future translations ensures that the automated machine translation output continues to improve progressively.

Language Studio™ PowerTrain technology analyses the differences after editing and then adjusts its statistical data to account for the new knowledge gained. Through this evolutionary process, error patterns are automatically identified and future translations do not repeat the same error.

Over a series of learning iterations, Language Studio™ translation quality will improve. With each improvement, less post editing effort is required, resulting in lower costs and faster delivery times, without compromising quality.

Translation is a complex task. It is often hard to define and conceive of everything that you want in your translated text in advance. However when you see the output, you know very quickly what you do not want. Once a custom engine has been created, Language Studio™ allows further refinements to be applied through a number of powerful runtime features:

Quality issues in source text are often a major cause of lower quality translations. Common issues can be addressed by automatically modifying and correcting the source material as part of the overall translation process.

This feature modifies the source text making changes that can then be processed as normal by other steps within the translation process.

Additional glossary terms can be added quickly to any translation or applied to all translations by default.

This feature modifies the source text and makes changes that guide the engine to make specific choices on vocabulary and terminology.

Additional non-translatable terms can be added quickly to any translation or applied to all translations by default.

This feature modifies the source text and makes changes that guide the engine on what should be translated and what should remain in the original form.

Normalization of terms and adjustments to preferred capitalization

This feature modifies the target text after it has been translated.

Use Language Studio™ to increase productivity. A typical human can translate between 2,000-3,000 words per day. With Language Studio™, productivity can rapidly be increased by 200-300%. With highly technical content, it is possible to increase productivity to even greater levels. Many human translators will struggle with technical terms, but once defined and trained just once, a Language Studio™ delivers a technical term as quickly and any other term – saving a lot of time looking up complex terminology in dictionaries.

Language Studio™ can be used in a similar manner to a translation memory, with confidence scores serving in place of a match percentage normally seen with translation memories. Many translation management systems have already integrated Language Studio™ so that it is part of the overall process and seamlessly integrated with traditional translation management processes and methodologies.

Productivity gains not only translate into faster delivery, but lower the overall cost of a project. With an increasing squeeze on margins from lower cost markets (or lower quality competitors), lowering the cost of translation is essential for LSPs to remain competitive. Automation of parts of the translation process is essential. Humans are an essential element of the translation process, but with a human and machine combination approach to delivering translations, quality translations can be delivered with higher margins than ever before.

Language Studio™ should be thought of as a translation memory on steroids. Like a translation memory, checking and proof reading is still required, but unlike a translation memory, Language Studio™ is able to provide translations of materials that have not been seen in the past.

By viewing Language Studio™ as an advanced form of translation memories, it is easy to understand how machine translation fits into the overall professional translation process. Some LSPs will inform their customers that they are using translation memories; others choose simply to use a translation memory as a tool in their tool-chest that enables them to deliver high-quality translations faster and at a lower cost than their competitors. As an advanced form of translation memory, Language Studio™ also matches these models.

Many LSPs specialize in a field of knowledge such as Information Technology (IT), Legal or Healthcare. Over a period of time, large volumes of translation memories have been accumulated along with other industry knowledge such as glossaries and terminology.

Like human translation, Language Studio™ delivers the highest quality translations when customized for a specialized purpose. Once a specialized engine has been created, it can be refined rapidly and adapted for a variety of customers. It is also possible to build a specialized system in a domain of knowledge that acts as a foundation for other customized engines. Taking this approach, different customers can have their specific vocabulary, terminology and style applied.

Many new opportunities reside in work outside the reach of traditional human translation projects. With speeds reaching hundreds of millions of words per day, it is possible to translate a wide variety of enterprise information, communications, support and knowledge base information, user generated content, reports and more.

Many translation projects are not feasible due to cost or time constraints. As a result, they fail to be approved and end before they are even started. With Language Studio™ large translation projects can be delivered at a fraction of the original cost and in a fraction of the time.

Projects that in the past were rejected are now feasible, and the business case can more readily justified. In addition, new kinds of content that was not affordable to translate in the past or was simply too large in volume for humans to translate can now be translated quickly and cost effectively.

Not only do projects that would have previously failed business case justification get approved, because of those projects success, more business in generated by end customers in foreign languages. These markets have ongoing requirements for new translation work and through their success drives the desire for expansion into additional markets that were originally out of reach.