A grounder on what a translation memory is, from the point of view of Mozilla localizers. Talk at MozCamp Berlin 2011

1. Translation memory What's that?

3. … independent of context

4. … portioned out in sensible units

6. Translators working with TMs report they work, on average, between 20-30% faster than without TMs.

7. Job – as words to be localized subject words comm 176000 aurora 173000 verbatim 37000 Mozilla web 20000 SuMo articles 40000 Total 446000

9. All (ALL!) file formats!

10. QA and QC

11. Terminology

12. Groupware

13. Pretranslation Comm (miramar) Segments Words Percent Total 31201 175717 100% Remaining after pre-translation with Fx 3.2 TMX 11383 108706 62% Unique Remaining: 8678 95462 54%

14. QA and QC

15. All (ALL!) the file types

16. TM – to be or not to be

17. QA and QC cont

18. QA and QC cont

19. QA and QC cont LOOK IT UP in http://www.frenchmozilla.fr/transvision/index.php?recherche=clear&locale=sl&repo=aurora

20. QA and QC cont LOOK IT UP in http://www.frenchmozilla.fr/transvision/index.php?recherche=clear&locale=sl&repo=aurora

21. QA and QC cont LOOK IT UP in http://www.frenchmozilla.fr/transvision/index.php?recherche=clear&locale=sl&repo=aurora

23. N

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28. increase the productivity

30. Examples here using OmegaT (cf www.omega.org)