In addition to this, as the datafication of the translation industry is now a reality and data seems to be the new fuel, your language data represents a very precious drop of that new oil that is used to train MT systems. If you answered no, ask yourselves: Why should I spend some of my precious free time to maintain my TMs? Well, because clean and consistent TMs can help improve the quality of your work and boost your productivity. I must confess I can be quite sloppy at times.

If you answered yes to all these questions, you are one of the very few smart TM users.

… run an automatic QA checks ( empty or duplicate segments, terminology… ).

… make sure that the terminology is consolidated?.

… do a bit of maintenance after a certain amount of time, especially if you harvest language data from other sources?.

Do you really take care of them as you should? Do you… Now, let’s say you have always been collecting your language data. Once you realize how important translation memories and term bases are for your work as a linguist, they quickly become your best friends.

It is vital to start using a CAT tool and build your translation memories and term bases from the very beginning yes, even if you’re still a student, and yes, even if the texts you’re supposed to translate for homework are all on different topics.

Inevitably, one or more students come up with the “I am better than GT” statement in class or in their social media account. I need to pinpoint that, although far from perfect, Google Translate has been constantly improving since inception, especially considering that is not a language- and domain-specific system.My story shouldn’t become too technical, otherwise most of the participants will have a case of MEGO.When I am involved in training colleagues or students (for ex., the ITV students) and have to talk about machine translation and post-editing, I have to remind myself not to take a few things for granted:

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