The DGT Multilingual Translation Memory

As of November 2007, the European Commission's Directorate General for Translation (DGT) made publicly accessible its multilingual Translation Memory for the Acquis Communautaire (the body of EU law) - a collection of parallel texts (texts and their translation, also referred to as bi-texts) in 22 languages. This is a page for technical users, where you will find a summary of this unique resource and instructions on where to download it and how to produce bilingual aligned corpora for any of the 231 language pair combinations (462 language pair directions). For an example of one sentence translated into all 22 languages, click here.

Note that - if you are a non-technical user - you may be more interested in our freely accessible news analysis applications, which you find at http://emm.jrc.it/overview.html.

The release of this linguistic resource follows the public release - in May 2006 - of the JRC-Acquis multilingual parallel corpus with sentence alignment for 231 language pairs. Version 3.0 of the JRC-Acquis, which now also contains Bulgarian as a 22nd language and which comprises a total of over 1 Billion words, has been made available in April 2007. The data releases of DGT and JRC are in line with the general effort of the European Commission to support multilingualism, language diversity and the re-use of Commission information.

The Acquis communautaire is the entire body of European legislation, including all the treaties, regulations and directives adopted by the European Union (EU) and the rulings of the European Court of Justice (see the Wikipedia entry). Since each new country joining the EU is required to accept the whole Acquis Communautaire, this body of legislation is translated into 22 official languages. As a result, the Acquis now exists as parallel texts in the following 22 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish. For the 23rd official EU language, Irish, the Acquis is not translated on a regular basis.

A translation memory is a collection of small text segments and their translation. These segments can be sentences or sentence parts. Translation memories are used to support translators by ensuring that pieces of text that have already been translated do not need to be translated again.

Both translation memories and parallel texts are an important linguistic resource that can be used for a variety of purposes, including:

• training automatic systems for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT);
• producing monolingual or multilingual lexical and semantic resources such as dictionaries and ontologies;
• training and testing multilingual information extraction software;
• checking translation consistency automatically;
• testing and benchmarking alignment software (for sentences, words, etc.).
  

Generally speaking, parallel corpora are useful for all types of cross-lingual research. The value of a parallel corpus grows with its size and with the number of languages for which translations exist. While parallel corpora for some languages exist abundantly, there are few or no parallel corpora for most other language pairs. To our knowledge, the Acquis Communautaire is the biggest parallel corpus in existence, if we take into consideration both its size and the large number of languages involved. The most outstanding advantage of the Acquis Communautaire - apart from being freely available - is the number of rare language pair combinations (e.g. Maltese-Estonian, Slovene-Finnish, etc.).

The distribution consists of 12 zip files (Volume_1.zip, ... Volume_12.zip), each of approximately 100 MB. Each zip file has dozens of tmx-files identified by the EUR-Lex number of the underlying documents of the Acquis and a file list in txt specifying the languages in which the documents are available.

Get it!

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Part 11
Part 12

You need to also download the extraction program and copy them into the same directory as the zip files with the data. The program consists of two files:
Program File
Library DLL

Enjoy it!

AnyCount

AnyCount Overview

AnyCount produces automatic word counts, character counts, line counts, and page counts for all common file formats. Supports .RTF, .DOC, .WPD, .XLS, .PPT, .PPS, .PDF, .CSV, .HTM, .HTML, .XML, .MIF, .TXT, .ZIP, .ODT, .SDW, .SXW, .ODS, .SDC, .SXC, .ODP, .SDD, .SXI, .HLP, .CHM formats, characters with spaces, characters without spaces.

When counting of files is completed, you can:

• view count results on the screen;
• sort results in columns;
• copy results to clipboard;
• print count results;
• export count results into .PDF format;
• export count results into .TXT format;
• export count results into Comma-Separated Text / Tab-Separated Text (.CSV Format) (which can be opened by Microsoft Excel and most other spreadsheet software);
• export count results to .HTML format;
• export count results to MS Word format;
• export count results to MS Excel format;
• export count results to .RTF format.

All count units in AnyCount Text Count Engine are derived from 3 basic atomic values:
· words
· characters with spaces
· characters without spaces.
You can edit existing count units (for instance, change the number of characters in a line or in a page) or create your own count units.

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Translation Office 3000

Accounting and Administrative Software for Freelance Translators

What is Translation Office 3000?
Translation Office 3000 is an advanced accounting tool for freelance translators and small translation agencies. TO3000 easily and seamlessly integrates into the business life of professional freelance translators.

Translation Office 3000 transforms the complex and diverse world of the translation business into a manageable concept implemented in software.

This top Accounting Tool for Freelance Translators is used by language professionals in 90+ countries.

General Features

Multiple Volume Units
With Translation Office 3000 you can calculate your work amount in words, lines, characters and any other text volume units (e.g. page of 1800 characters with spaces, page of 1500 characters without spaces, line of 50, 55 or 60, or 62 characters).

Easily Manageable Price-List
There are two purposes for a price-list. First, it is useful alone for reference purposes and for sending it to prospective clients at their requests. Secondly, when you make a new job quote to a translation agency, Translation Office 3000 automatically suggests the price for the given language pair from the price-list, if it is listed there.

Optimum Client and Contact handling
With Translation Office 3000 you can communicate more consistently keeping track of all the important things, which happen in your freelance translation business. For every translation agency or direct translation job client you can have a clear view of all the important information (client profile, translation quotes, translation jobs, invoices issued, payments received).

Built-in powerful word counters
Translation Office 3000 incorporates advanced content count tools: AnyCount and CATCount. Obtain quick and accurate word, line, page, character and even custom unit counts with the help of built-in AnyCount tool. Count easily Computer Assisted Translations with a single click, using built-in CATCount tool.

Visualized intuitive project and work tracking
Always have the clearest view of pending projects and jobs, using advanced features of Translation Office 3000 like schedules of projects.

Invoicing, Quoting and more
Invoices and quotes no longer consume time. Issue invoices and quotes with multiple jobs, markups, discounts, comments and even CATCount result tables, add or remove jobs from them with a single click. Save your invoices, quotes and price lists using fully customizable templates in .rtf or .doc files.

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WinLexic 2005

GUI to Microsoft Glossaries for Technical Translators and Technical Translation Agencies

* Downloads and resumes broken/paused downloads of Microsoft glossaries.
* Displays glossaries in a nice and covenient dictionary form.
* Allows fast search for glossary terms.

Downloading Microsoft Glossaries is not an easy task. They are large (only Farsi, Arabic, Malay, and Indonesian glossaries are under 1Mb, other 40 glossaries range in size between 1.05 Mb for Galician and 62Mb for Spanish) and downloading them by standard means (through Microsoft Internet Explorer, for instance) may be a nuisance.

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Wordfast 5.52

A Universal and Open Translation tool

Wordfast is a CAT tool designed as a Microsoft Word™ add-on. Its lightweight, flexible structure makes it easy to install and use. It is designed to meet the specific needs of the individual translator and translation workgroups. At nearly one-fifth the price of most competing CAT programs, Wordfast is the perfect tool to fit the freelancer’s budget without compromising power.

Wordfast is designed to meet the specific needs of the individual translator and translation workgroups. Its lightweight, flexible structure makes it easy to install and use, and contains features to handle jobs
of any size and complexity. Wordfast is a highly customizable program, and offers unique features such as quality checks and links to unlimited external dictionaries. Its small size allows for easy downloads, and at
nearly one-fifth the price of most competing CAT programs, Wordfast is the perfect tool to fit the freelancer’s budget.

Unlike other bulky TM engines, Wordfast’s low-impact design combines powerful data management with superior versatility, whether translating Microsoft Ofice documents natively or using the PlusTools™ freeware
package for HTML and other tagged formats. Wordfast’s glossary features provide reliable terminology re-use without having to purchase a separate terminology add-on tool. To streamline editing during and post-translation, Wordfast’s thorough quality check provides on-demand reports pertaining to the most common translation issues.

Glossaries

• Supports up to 250,000 entries per glossary.

• Open, plain text, tab-delimited format for easy maintenance or migration.

Supported Languages

• Any language supported by Microsoft Word.

Translation Memory

• Supports up to 1,000,000 Translation units per TM.

• Supports up to TMX 1.4b.

• Average retrieval speed of less than half a second per segment for large TMs.

• Supports up to 20 simultaneous users of the same TM over a LAN.

• Fully backward-compatible with previous Wordfast versions.

• Intuitive alignment feature through the PlusTools utility.

Technical Specifications

• Windows 95 and higher – Microsoft Word 97 and higher.

• Linux (tested on SUSE and Mandrake Linux with XFCE, KDE2, VMWare and CrossOver) – Microsoft Word 97 and higher.
  

• Mac OS 7 and higher (including OS X) – Microsoft Word 98 and higher (including Word X).

Save Money – Save Time – Save Memory

Trados TM Server 7.1

"Everywhere" Access to your Worldwide Translation Team.

• Centralize your Translation Memory assets to increase consistency and efficiency

• Manage access rights and maintain ownership of TMs

• Connect translators, internal teams, and customer reviewers

SDL Trados Translation Memory Server works with the systems you already have to build a knowledgebase of previous translations. Then the system identifies reusable content in this knowledgebase and stores it for future use. Source content revisions in your Content Management System can alert SDL Trados Translation Memory Server to initiate matching revisions for your translated content, keeping your content consistent and up-to-date across all languages.

SDL Trados Translation Memory Server works with your existing workflow software. The Access Management Dashboard secures access to content types, so, for example, only designated translators can view sensitive documents, or only technically sophisticated translators can change engineering texts.

SDL MultiTerm

Empowering Effective and Accurate Communications

The market-leading terminology management solution, SDL MultiTerm helps companies manage their terms in a centralized repository. Linguistically powerful and capable of managing any amount of terms in a limitless number of languages, it guarantees the delivery of the right word to the right author at the right time.

Managing terminology requires more than a simple word list or spreadsheet. Global organizations need the ability to:

• Create a centralized repository of all terminology in every language
• Capture any data about a term required, including antonyms, explanatory graphics and even usage recommendations
• Extract terms from all existing and new content to immediately build a comprehensive dictionary
• Provide access to centralized terms for all content creators and translators via network, intranet portal or web

Since 1990, SDL MultiTerm has been enabling complete control over an organization's most important asset: its terminology. It provides centralized access to approved terms, delivering accurate and consistent terminology throughout the authoring and translation processes. A comprehensive solution, SDL MultiTerm provides solutions to extract, centralize and publish terms for the organization's use.

Extract

To ensure companies can be immediately active, SDL offers the two industry-approved term extraction methods for both mono- and bilingual documents:

• Linguistic extraction method, based on sophisticated language-based rules and built-in dictionaries
• Statistical extraction method, based on the frequency of term candidate appearance

Centralize

Terms are stored in a central repository on a server, which captures limitless terms and supporting data. User-defined security administration ensures that only specified users can submit or edit terms, while others can only perform smart searching and view the results. Searching options include:

• Simple search to locate specific terms
• Wildcard search to locate all terms that contain a specific string of characters
• Fuzzy search to locate terms that are similar or contain part of the search text
• Multi-termbase search to locate a term that may exist in multiple terminology databases
• Full-text search, to locate a term that may exist anywhere within the complete termbase, including metadata

Publish

The terms held within the database can be shared over a number of media, ensuring read or write access for every author and translator, regardless of physical location or network connectivity, including:

• A client/server application
• Any standard web browser
• A powerful yet easy-to-use export function, for those not granted access to sensitive network architecture
• A thick client for remote access
• From within other business applications, via XML and SOAP. Out-of-the-box integrations include:

• SDL MultiTerm seamlessly integrates with SDL AuthorAssistant to verify terms during the point of creation in popular authoring tools such as Microsoft® Word, Adobe® FrameMaker®, XMetaL® and Arbortext Editor
• SDL MultiTerm seamlessly integrates with SDL Trados 2007 to deliver real-time term verification during the translation process.

  

SDL Trados Freelance 7.1

SDL Trados allows you to work with powerful SDL Package technology. The SDL Package is an all-in-one project file which is easily to create, send and open through the Translation Supply Chain. It contains all the necessary information, files and settings to translate a project quickly and accurately:

• Quality - Package your project with the right settings and correct information. Within the SDL Package environment translators have everything they need and they can immediately start working. The result is minimum queries and high quality translations. Automated batch quality assurance checks further accelerate accurate translated content delivery.

• Speed and ease of use - One quick wizard allows to compile all the file and information necessary for the succesful execution of a multi-lingual translation project. Nothing is left behind, projects are prepared in half of the time and queries minimized.

• Organization - SDL Package enables project analysis, scheduling and tracking all available through a simple dahsboard view.

SDL Trados 2007 offers the best of both worlds, with the choice of Trados Translator's Workbench, Tag Editor and SDLX editing environments. Integration with SDL MultiTerm provides powerful terminology lookup and search functions to ensure adherence to corporate terminology and dramatically reduce translation time.

SDL PerfectMatch™ is part of the SDL Trados 2007 SP2 Professional software, further reducing costs and improving accuracy. 100% in-contect matches do not need further review, saving time and money.

SDL Trados 2007 has five core components: SDL Translator's Workbench 8, SDLX 2007, SDL MultiTerm 2007 Desktop, SDL PerfectMatch™ and SDL Trados Synergy 2007 Client all for a single price.

Key Benefits:

• SDL Package: An all-in-one project file for increased quality, speed and consistency
• Over 320 updates: SDL Trados SP1 and SP2 have created additional stability and improved user experience
• Leverage past translation projects: Never translate the same sentence twice.
• SDL PerfectMatch™: SDL Trados 2007 now incorporates the technology to eliminate the requirement for in-context 100% match review, saving you time and money!
• Higher quality translations: SDL Trados 2007 is a core component of the CCM Methodology, the leading and most advanced approach to professional translation. It illustrates that SDL is dedicated to supporting the Global Ecosystem and is now offering the ‘Best of Both Worlds’ but significantly enhancing both TM products whilst moving towards a single platform
• Save hours of review time: Some of the fastest, most powerful quality checks ever seen, (inconsistent translations, punctuation, grammar, and more), with QA Checker 2.0. Plus, the QA checker can now be used in batch mode from within SDL Trados Synergy.
• Full compatibility with Windows Vista: To ensure that you are fully prepared for the latest Microsoft technology
• Work with all major file formats: Easily handle project files no matter what formats your clients provide, including HTML, XML, SGML, XLIFF, Interleaf/Quicksilver, Microsoft® Word*, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint®, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Clipboard, Adobe® PageMaker6.5, Adobe InDesign CS®, Adobe FrameMaker® 7.x/8.x, Adobe and a multitude of new file formats including InDesign CS2 and CS3, QuarkXPress 6.x/7.x (via CopyFlow via Napsys**), and Generic delimited text files.
• Have more choice: Multiple editing environments. (Translator's Workbench, SDLX and Tag Editor)
• Increased quality and consistency: Integration with SDL MultiTerm allows you to leverage client-specific and industry-specific termbases so your translations are more accurate and use your clients' preferred words and phrases.
• Connect to the Global Ecosystem: SDL Trados 2007 gives you the ability to work seamlessly across the global ecosystem of tens of thousands other SDL Trados equipped translators, translation companies, and enterprises around the world.

"Everywhere" access to your worldwide translation team: SDL Trados 2007 works with SDL’s server products, providing easy ways to expand as your business grows.

More Information

SDL Trados 2007 captures your teams' translations as they work, building a linguistic database (the translation memory or TM). From this database, the software identifies reusable content. When a translator works on new content and encounters a sentence similar or identical to an already-translated sentence, the software automatically proposes reuse suggestions.

As a result, no translator ever needs to translate the same sentence twice. Your translators can reuse what they have translated as often as they want. The more your teams build your translation memory, the faster they can translate subsequent projects and the more time they will have for the more creative aspects of their work.

System Requirements

SDL Trados 2007 runs on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Server. Windows Vista or Windows XP is recommended for optimum performance.

PC with Pentium III or compatible processor (Pentium IV or higher recommended).
512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) on Windows 2000/Windows XP Home/Windows XP Professional/Windows Vista.

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