Translation Memory (TM) is a key technology in the translation industry, its success based on several assumptions: that it saves time, provides cost savings, and enhances consistency. Our research tests the assumption of consistency in TMs. We examine English/German and English/Japanese TM data from two commercial companies with a view to measuring the levels of consistency (or inconsistency) b...

The paper gives an overview of the evaluation methods of memory-based translation systems: Translation Memories (TM) and Example Based Machine Translation (EBMT) systems. After a short comparison with the well-discussed methods of evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) Systems we give a brief overview of current methodology on memory-based applications. We propose a new aspect, which takes the ...

The paper gives an overview of the evaluation methods of memory-based translation systems: Translation Memories (TM) and Example Based Machine Translation (EBMT) systems. After a short comparison with the well-discussed methods of evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) Systems we give a brief overview of current methodology on memory-based applications. We propose a new aspect, which takes the ...

This paper is intended to alert all those who are involved directly or indirectly in the translation industry to the facilities offered by Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) and Translation Memory (TM). It considers some of the main functions offered by CAT in the form of Translation Memory and compares them with the basic characteristics and constraints of Machine Translation (MT). In particu...

With the steadily increasing demand for highquality translation, the localisation industry is constantly searching for technologies that would increase translator throughput, in particular focusing on the use of high-quality Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) supplementing the established Translation Memory (TM) technology. In this paper, we present a novel modular approach that utilises sta...

Our previous work focuses on combining translation memory (TM) and statistical machine translation (SMT) when the TM database and the SMT training set are the same. However, the TM database will deviate from the SMT training set in the real task when time goes by. In this work, we concentrate on the task when the TM database and the SMT training set are different and even from different domains...

Translation Memory (TM) tools have been a major focus of efforts over the past 1020 years for improving translation and localization productivity. Recent articles have only briefly mentioned the notion of "authoring memory" (AM) tools. This paper discusses in further detail the concept of AM, how such a tool can benefit from a Controlled Language (CL) authoring environment, and how TM and AM sh...

With the steadily increasing demand for high-quality translation, the localisation industry is constantly searching for technologies that would increase translator throughput, with the current focus on the use of high-quality Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) as a supplement to the established Translation Memory (TM) technology. In this paper we present a novel modular approach that utilise...

The integration of machine translation (MT) and translation-memory (TM) systems in professional translation settings has turned pre-translation + post-editing into an attractive alternative in terms of productivity for all parties involved in the translation process. In some cases, source files are pre-translated using a combination of customised MT and TM before reaching the translators, who t...

This paper describes the Senseval-2 Japanese translation task. In this task, word senses are defined according to distinct translations in a given target language. A translation memory (TM) was constructed which contains, for each Japanese head word, a list of typical Japanese expressions and their English translations. For each test word instance, participants were required to submit the TM re...