The Full-text Multilingual Corpus: Breaking the Translation Memory Bottleneck

Driven by fast-paced global competition where the time-to-market of new products, services and communications into multiple languages and cultures is mission-critical, organizations are increasingly demanding translation services that provide faster turnaround while maintaining the highest level of quality. A key driver behind the need for speed and quality is the ongoing explosion of web-based content and the related expectations of content freshness and quality. Operating in a competitive and typically fixed-price environment, translation service providers need to respond with significant gains in translator productivity while continuously improving translation quality. Also, translators and terminologists do not work in isolation they are members of a complex language management value chain that consists of monolingual and multilingual authors, reviewers, translators, terminologists, and content consumers who may reside in multiple organizations. In order to fully optimize language management, all of these participants must be able to seamlessly share language resources and collaborate in real-time.