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The difference between a termbase and a translation memory

18.10.2024 by Delingua

If your business regularly works with translations involving multiple languages, you may have already encountered the terms “termbase” and “translation memory”. While both are essential tools for translators, they each serve a different purpose.

In this straightforward guide, we’ll explain the basics of termbases and translation memories, the differences between the two, and how they can help to improve your translations.

What is a termbase?

A termbase (TB), also known as a terminology database, is a collection of specific words and expressions used in a particular subject area, industry, or company. A term entry may include definitions, examples as well as the corresponding translations of these words and expressions in other languages. The primary purpose of a termbase is to ensure consistency and accuracy in translations by providing a reference for the translator.

For example, when translating a legal document, the corresponding termbase might include terms like “jurisdiction,” “liability,” or “indemnity.” When translating a marketing brochure for a technology company, on the other hand, it may include terms like “cloud computing,” “cybersecurity,” or “digital transformation.”

What is a translation memory?

A translation memory (TM) is a database that stores previously translated content in the source and target language. The content is stored as bilingual segments – or translation units – in the database for future use. When a translator encounters the same or a similar sentence or string in a new translation, the translation memory will provide the previously translated version as a suggestion for the translation, saving time and improving consistency.

For example, if while translating the user manual for a product, the sentence “Press the red button to start the machine” has already been translated, the translation memory will provide the stored translation as a translation suggestion for a new sentence like “Press the green button to activate the machine.”

How do they differ?

While both termbases and translation memories are databases used in translation, they serve different purposes. A termbase is a reference tool used to ensure consistency in terminology across translations, whereas the purpose of a translation memory is to reuse previous translations and thereby save time.

How do they work together?

Termbases and translation memories work together to improve the quality and efficiency of translations. For example, a termbase can be integrated into computer-assisted translation software to ensure consistent terminology across translations, improving the accuracy of the translation memory suggestions.

How can they benefit your business?

Using a termbase and translation memories can benefit your business in several ways. By ensuring consistent use of terminology, you can improve the accuracy of your translations, making your content easier to understand for your target audience. Additionally, by reusing previous translations, you can save time and reduce translation costs.

Using these tools can also help you maintain brand consistency across languages, strengthening your corporate voice and ensuring that your messaging is clear and effective in every language. This can improve customer satisfaction.

Want to know more about our advanced solutions for termbase management and translation memories? Reach out to us and we will be in touch shortly.

This article was originally published by LanguageWire Company (Verity Hartley).

Welcome to LanguageWire’s stand at NBForum

17.9.2024 by Katja Virtanen

It will soon be time for one of the absolute highlights of the business year: Nordic Business Forum 2024 at Messukeskus in Helsinki.

The event is again expected to attract more than 6,500 participants from many different countries, as well as nearly 30,000 livestream followers. The event features presentations by the world’s leading thinkers, excellent business tips and intensive networking.

LanguageWire is there, of course

Delingua has acted as Nordic Business Forum’s official interpreting partner since the early years of the event. This year, it will be the first time that our new parent company LanguageWire acts the interpreting partner. All presentations on the main stage will be interpreted from English into Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, Latvian and Lithuanian.

LanguageWire will also have its own stand (6d5) at the event, not to mention our virtual stand in the Brella app. Both stands will offer you the chance to learn more about LanguageWire’s extensive selection of translation, interpreting and language technology solutions and take part in our magnificent LEGO prize draw.

What’s new?

LanguageWire offers next-generation AI solutions that utilise automation, advanced neural networks and deep-learning algorithms. Our solutions boost our customers’ business and make multilingual content management smart and effortless.

Let’s take a couple of examples of what we will be demonstrating at our stand.

LanguageWire Generate is our Gen AI content creation tool that can help businesses speed up lead generation and improve conversion. The tool is designed to create high-quality content that meets the specific needs of the business. By incorporating various parameters to tailor distinct content pieces and by leveraging the company’s content memory and termbases, LanguageWire Translate can produce and customise content that resonates with its target audience.

LanguageWire Translate is our vision of what kinds of requirements a machine translation system for corporate use should meet. On the surface, it looks quite similar to many of its machine translation competitors, but the difference lies under the hood. The key features of LanguageWire Translate include a deep-learning neural network translation engine, extremely strong security and utilisation of the customer organisation’s language resources.

Of course, we will showcase the entire range of LanguageWire’s language solutions, what we call our ecosystem. Its core is LanguageWire Platform, which seamlessly integrates a variety of advanced technology solutions.

See you at our stand!

LanguageWire is an international corporation headquartered in Denmark. That is why we will also be organising some LEGO activities at our stand: take a moment to relax during the hustle and bustle of the seminar, visit our stand and build something concrete!

Also, be sure to bring your headphones so that you can listen to our simultaneous interpreting on your smartphone.

See you at Nordic Business Forum on 25–26 September!

Offer interpreting at your next event

10.9.2024 by Sofia Väänänen

Technological development, combined with more environmentally sustainable practices, has led to more and more events, both small and large, taking place remotely. As an increasing number of events offer the opportunity of remote participation, the need for remote simultaneous interpreting has also increased.

Simultaneous interpreting is an interpreting method in which the interpreter interprets into another language at the same time as the speaker is speaking. It is exactly this idea of everything happening at the same time that sets simultaneous interpreting apart from other forms of interpreting in which the speaker and the interpreter take turns speaking. Remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI) also makes it possible to offer interpreting for virtual and hybrid events.

After reading this article, you will know what it takes to arrange simultaneous interpreting for an international virtual or hybrid event and why offering interpreting is an asset for both the company and the event participant.

Simultaneous interpreting at the Europe Forum

Delingua has been the interpreting partner of the Europe Forum for the past two years. This year, after last summer’s change of ownership, we provided simultaneous interpreting as part of the LanguageWire group. The event took place in Turku on 28–30 August 2024.

At an international event such as the Europe Forum, interpreting plays a key role, with topics such as politics, finance and science concerning people across geographical boundaries. All programme sections in Finnish and Swedish were interpreted simultaneously into English, which made it possible for a wider audience to participate in the EU discussion.

This year was exceptional at the Europe Forum as it was the first time interpreting took place completely remotely. The event was a hybrid event, which meant that participants could listen to simultaneous interpreting both on site with a mobile phone app and live online.

“Together with Rajupaja’s AV team and our partner Interprefy, we were able to achieve a technical solution that served the participants both remotely and on site,” says Anneli Waris, Interpreting Services Manager.

Organising simultaneous interpreting for a three-day event as large as the Europe Forum requires both technical and professional competence. A successful event is based on good preliminary work and close cooperation between the parties.

“It goes without saying that organising such a massive three-day event requires coordination with the customer and the technology partners, as well as insight into what is being done. By going through the details carefully, we can make sure that everyone knows what is happening and how it is done,” says Anneli.

Simultaneous interpreting can also be arranged remotely

The need for RSI has grown at a rapid rate in recent years. Technological development, combined with more environmentally sustainable practices, has led to more and more events, both small and large, taking place remotely – in practice, online.

Thanks to advanced technology, interpreting can be conveniently provided via an app that any participant can download to their phone free of charge. During hybrid events, participants can listen to interpreting either at the venue via a mobile phone app or as a live stream online. RSI can be arranged on various digital platforms, such as Teams or Zoom.

As an increasing number of events offer the possibility of remote participation, the need for remote simultaneous interpreting has also increased. So why not offer interpreting for your virtual event as well?

Interpreting benefits both the company and the participant

It is important to remember that good language skills are not always enough. At an international event, speeches and presentations may be superficially understood, but the nuances of the language, the deep meaning of the message or the quick speech of a native speaker, for example, might not be fully understood. It is clear that without professional interpreting, not all participants get the most out of the event. By offering interpreting in different languages, you not only create new business opportunities but also show that you take the audience’s multilingualism into account.

“Organising interpreting for your own event is a good way of making it clear that every participant matters to your company. Understanding and becoming understood creates added value and can, at best, contribute to an overall sense of belonging. When all the information has been shared and understood correctly, it is also possible to build a better vision of the future and the direction in which society is heading. Interpreting is a valuable tool – so make good use of it!” says Anneli.

Interpreting is a great asset for both the company and the event participant. Interpreting can be used both to boost business and improve the customer experience. By offering interpreting in different languages, you open doors to your global audience and enable participation across language boundaries. So, next time you are organising an event, consider the added value that interpreting could bring to both your company and your customers.

Would you like to reap the benefits of interpreting for your own event? Contact us – let’s find the best solution for your company!

11th year of interpreting at Nordic Business Forum

30.4.2024 by Delingua

How generative AI can help elevate your work and boost efficiency

26.4.2024 by Delingua

In the last year, awareness of Generative AI has skyrocketed. The availability of newer and more powerful GPT models has given everyone a chance to benefit from this new technology.

But what exactly are those benefits? How is generative AI really going to change the way you work and why should we be investing our time in understanding these new, powerful tools.

Let’s look at some ways you can use AI to help you work smarter and faster than ever.

Kickstart Creativity

Generative AI is a great starting point for getting your ideas on the page. When working creatively, nothing can be worse than blank page syndrome, where the cursor blinks at you incessantly while you wait for inspiration to strike.

From creating article outlines, to writing first drafts of content, Generative AI can help you jump start your creativity and speed up your workflows. Use it to create first draft outlines or give you heading ideas to get you started. If you’re really stuck it can even create a first draft from scratch to fill that first page.

You can use the new wave of AI tools to help break this cycle and start getting new ideas on the page for you to then finesse with your own style, voice and creativity.

Maintain Consistency & Quality

When working on multilingual content, you want to always maintain a consistent tone of voice and use the right business language. This can be tricky when you have content creators or translators working all around the world and often across different languages.

By interlinking your Generative AI tool with your company termbase and other linguistic assets like translation memories, you can ensure that any content your AI tool generates for you will maintain the correct business tone and language to ensure consistency.

You can train your AI model on your linguistic assets to ensure that it knows your tone of voice, what terms you use and how to spell and write them correctly. This will save you time and effort when validating and boost the overall quality of your content.

Personalise Customer Experiences

It can be difficult to provide always-on multilingual customer service, especially on a global scale. However, AI chatbots can help provide a customer service presence even when your employees are off the clock.

With the latest versions of AI models, these chatbots can be programmed to provide a huge amount of personalised interaction with your customers, in their own language.

Always-on AI chatbots can provide friendly, helpful support to your customers at any time of the day and respond in a conversational manner that seems natural. They can pull data directly from customer databases to personalise the experience and make answering customer queries simple in any language.

Boost Productivity

Data analysis is one of the key areas where AI can help make our lives much easier. AI models are trained on large datasets, and they can easily absorb, review and analyse data in a second before returning the results in an easy-to-read format.

One powerful way this can be used is to summarise long texts. AI can quickly read and create a summary of a longer document by identifying the key points and adding them to a bulleted list. It can also create short-form copy from long-form documents, for example it could build social media posts based on blog articles.

You can input large data sets of any variety into your AI tool and asking them to identify trends, format the content in a variety of ways or to extract key information quickly and easily, cutting down on the manual effort required.

Additionally, you can use an AI tool to help you be more productive in other tools such as Excel by asking you to write a formula that will analyse your data for you in that application.

You do need to be careful about where and what data you upload to open and public AI tools as there is no protection on who can see your data once it is uploaded. Make sure you only upload sensitive data to a company you trust who can provide assurances that nothing will be kept or shared after the task is completed.

Make Generative AI work for you

Generative AI is a powerful tool that you can use to enhance your daily workflows. From creativity to communication, the possibilities are endless. Getting the most out of AI includes understanding how to input the right prompt. If you would like to learn more about AI prompting, read our detailed guide.

Interested to learn more about what LanguageWire AI tools can do for you and your business? Contact us and let’s talk more!

This article was originally published by LanguageWire Company (Verity Hartley).

The future of termbase management

18.4.2024 by Delingua

As we have seen recently, things can change very quickly in business technology. AI has leaped into our lives and is now becoming a major part of most of the daily processes and systems in ways we could never have imagined a year ago.

Termbases, critical business tools for those who seek quality and consistency in the content, and their related science of terminology management will be no different.

Peering into our crystal ball let’s see if we can catch a glimpse of a few of the future trends that will be impacting on our termbase management systems.

Cloud network storage

Long gone are the days when termbases were confined to a single desktop, accessible only by the one who created it. With cloud computing becoming much more ubiquitous in business, we can expect to see termbases becoming not just about storage but about accessibility, availability, and real-time updates. As businesses become increasingly global, the need for language experts to access these linguistic assets from anywhere, be it a bustling office in London or a quiet cafe in Kyoto, becomes imperative.

Cloud platforms don’t just facilitate this global reach; they also ensure that backup, security, and updates are managed centrally, reducing the nitty-gritty tasks for businesses, and freeing them to focus on their core operations. It also allows for greater levels of integration with more applications ensuring that you can apply your business language to your content, at anytime and anywhere.

Automation

Imagine a world where the process of updating a termbase doesn’t require manual intervention but is instead a seamless, automatic process. That’s where automation steps in.

Instead of combing vast amounts of content to identify and add new terms, automation tools, driven by AI, can detect, classify, and even suggest terms for inclusion. This not only streamlines the process saving you time and money, but also reduces the chances of error that manual processes can introduce therefore producing a much higher-quality final product.

AI data enhancement

Large Language Models thrive on data. The richer and more diverse the data, the more adept these models become by training the model with your specific business language. Termbases, teeming with linguistic intricacies, provide a golden opportunity here. By integrating termbases into AI training data, businesses can ensure that their AI tools are not just linguistically aware but are also culturally and contextually astute.

For businesses aiming for global resonance, this is a game-changer. A chatbot trained with a comprehensive termbase, for instance, would not just communicate; it would connect, understand nuances, and deliver a richer customer experience. Generative AI models would be able to produce content in your business voice using correct product names and ensuring consistency across the board.

Collaborative platforms

The beauty of collaboration is that it captures a myriad of perspectives. In the context of termbases, this means a more robust and diverse linguistic database. Collaborative platforms are set to revolutionise termbase management by enabling teams, irrespective of their geographical location, to contribute to, refine, and leverage a centralised termbase.

This collective approach ensures that the linguistic spectrum captured is broad, nuanced, and immensely valuable and specific to your business needs.

Looking forward in termbase management

The great news is that many of these exciting changes to greater improve and simplify termbase management are already here and improving day by day. You just need to understand and take advantage of them.

This article was originally published by LanguageWire Company (Verity Hartley)