Imagine this: you’re waiting in line at the DMV, watching paint dry, listening to the soothing symphony of an old dot-matrix printer, and thinking, “Surely, nothing in life could be slower than this.” Well, congratulations, because until recently, Cattitude’s term-matching algorithm could give the DMV a run for its money—if…
We previously discussed the enormously powerful Search & Replace feature of Cattitude, which allows you to search and replace terms and sentences in multiple translation memories and terminology databases simultaneously in one go. Now this feature has become even more powerful with the introduction of RegEx, a search pattern language…
Game translators and technical translators know it: almost every file has them… the parts in the source text that list every possible part of the car or item in the game. Not the most fascinating part of the text, but one of the most important parts, as this is the…
This is actually a grammatically correct sentence in English. If it baffles you: a semantically equivalent form preserving the original word order is: “Buffalo bison that other Buffalo bison bully also bully Buffalo bison.” Buffalo (capitalized) is a place in America, so Buffalo bison means bison from Buffalo. Another example….
There’s a lot of buzz around ChatGPT. Most people, including myself, don’t even want to hear the word anymore. Gurus pop up everywhere, claiming they are experts and charging thousands of euros for teaching you how to “talk” to this language model. “Prompt engineering”, they call it. Many of these…
Cattitude has just released a new feature that is set to make the lives of its users much easier. This new feature allows users to show the most recent entries in their translation memories and then enables them to narrow these entries down per file. This means that users can…
It’s quite an honor for Cattitude to be compared to tools like memoQ and SDL Trados Studio, especially if you realize that the latter products are being made by huge companies with access to tons of resources, while Cattitude is basically a one-man show. And that show is run by…
In a previous blog, we already spoke about Term Modifications, a nifty feature that allows Cattitude to “intercept” machine translations and search and replace certain words or phrases that for some reason keep giving the wrong results. For example, if you’ve been translating a text on birds for a while,…
We recently integrated ChatGPT, a new and incredibly impressive artificial intelligence, as a new feature in Catittude’s Concordance function. This allows users to define a context domain for each client, which ChatGPT then uses to provide the exact meaning of a selected word or sentence in that specific context. Using…
This week I had a very interesting discussion with Boris Bastijanić, a Language Technology Expert who, amongst other things, specializes in terminology extraction. The discussion focused on whether all terms in a text should be extracted before starting a project, or whether they should be defined on the fly during…
