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Glossary

  • CAT tool (computer-assisted/computer-aided translation) refers to all computer-aided auxiliary systems of the translator, i.e. dictionaries, reference texts, translation memories, etc. Today, CAT tools are often used synonymously with translation memory system, a system for managing and(...)
  • A compound is a word, usually consisting of two or more nouns. The most common group in German is the determinative compound (e.g German Erd-ball, Erd-apfel, Erd-umrundung). In addition to the pure noun compounds, there are also adjective compounds (e.g. German "schwarz-weiß"), and(...)
  • A corpus is a digitized collection of text data that is used for computer-aided processing of natural language. For example, machine translation uses aligned, bilingual parallel corpora as the basis for statistical analysis and MT engine training.