Chinese Localisation Chinese Localisation 1. Introduction To meet the communication needs of the information age, Keyoung set up a professional language translation department in 1993 to provide our clients with various types of professional translation services.
Localisation refers to the adaptation of a product or service to a particular market.
Localisation work was first carried out in the United States by software companies. The volume and repetitive nature of the information, along with shorter product life cycles and the consequent need for frequent updating of information, led translation companies like Keyoung to adopt faster, more efficient translation techniques than traditional translation. As the limitations of automatic translation became evident, Keyoung turned towards computer-aided translation techniques. Computer-aided translation is the ideal compromise between automatic translation and solely human translation. Using specialist software, terminology databases and translation memories, professional translators can translate large quantities of information more quickly and keep terminology uniform throughout a project.