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translation will automatically be retrieved from the translation memory
database and inserted in B's target text.
Naturally, translation memory tools are especially useful on large
volume texts, which contain a lot of repetitive text and where translations
can be created on a one-to-one sentence basis. Using translation memory
tools to translate marketing text or adverts is not a good idea, simply
because those types of texts often require many adjustments, rewrites, and
other modifications.
In the software localisation industry, translation memory tools have
always been very popular because of the short life cycle of software
products. Most software products are updated at least once a year, and re-
using translations of previous versions will decrease time to market of
localised versions drastically.
Examples of translation memory tools are Trados Translator's
Workbench (http://www.trados.com/), Atril Déjà Vu
(http://www.atril.com/), and STAR Transit (http://www.star-ag.ch/).
Terminology tools
In localisation, terminology management is usually dealt with in a
very basic manner. Localisers typically don't create or use large
multilingual terminology databases with term definitions, context,
grammatical information, source, etc. Instead, in most cases only bilingual
glossaries of translated terms or phrases are used, for example all translated
terms from the software user interface, e.g. menu options, dialog box items,
etc. For this reason, not only are professional terminology management
tools used, but also basic glossary tools with search features.
Most translation memory tools come with terminology management
applications which can be linked to the translation memory for automatic
terminology lookup. Automatic terminology lookup means that terms in the
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