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Translation
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Computers are tools that can help people - and they also offer various
aids to translation work. Translation tools and technologies
enhance productivity and performance and make translators' lives
easier: They help to improve the quality of translators' work, reduce
the amount of time required to translate, make work more efficient
and produce better results.
In the localization industry, there are numerous different
translation tools offered by different providers.
The list below shows the most common and standard tools used at Sun.
The Open Language Tools are a set of translation tools aiming to make
the task of translating software and documentation a lot easier.
They comprise a full-featured XLIFF Translation Editor and a set of
XLIFF file filters for a number of documentation and software file
formats.
Our intended audience is tool developers and translators of software
and documentation - both professional translators and those just doing
it for fun!
For more information, and to download the XLIFF Translation Editor,
go to
Open
Language Tools.
The
Quick Guide
for the
XLIFF Translation Editor is intended to help you start using the
tool quickly.
SunGloss is
Sun's terminology management tool. It provides a user interface for
consulting existing translation terminology (en-US language and target
language term pairs) and allows the exporting and importing of term
lists, also called glossaries.
Consulting and managing terminology helps to keep the translation
consistent.
For more information, go to
Terminology
Management and
Terminology Tool.
If you already have a login, you can also directly access
SunGloss (at
https://g11nportal.sun.com/sungloss).
You can also find/learn more about terminology on the Web.
Some websites of interest are listed
here.
A Style Guide is a small book or publication with the main purpose of
providing guidance on language use. It specifies details of writing
style
such as punctuation, capitalization, spelling, word usage, grammatical
conventions, syntax and sometimes even structural and formatting issues.
Sun provides style guides for numerous translation languages.
To download the style guide for the language you're translating
into, visit the
Language Style Guides
page.
When a product is being localized in a language, it's critical to keep
track of the quality issues to guarantee improvements and plan
targeted corrective actions.
At Sun Microsystems, the "bugs" found in the translation are listed in
a
template (QA Matrix) and compared with other parameters like word count
and target customer. At the end, the macros in the template deliver a
feedback, which is a quality "level".
The aim of the
QA matrix is to
provide
feedback on the translation quality and keep track of the quality
trend.
If you would like to share your opinion regarding the content
of this page, please
contact
the Open Translation team.
