Also known as Multilingual Preparation . See also translation memory. The process in which the various elements of a product are transformed for use in a specific locale or target market. The result is a product for which the user believes was developed specifically for them and not noticeably adapted from another language version. Several companies, governments, and other organizations have researched the viability of machine translation products and some have developed translation systems.
Machine translation is a complex technology that translates text from one human language to another.
Computers interpret the structure of sentences in the source language and generate a translation based on the rules of the target language. The process involves breaking down complex and varying sentence structures, identifying parts of speech, resolving ambiguities, and synthesizing the information into the components and structure of the new language. A vendor capable of localizing your product simultaneously into multiple languages. The benefits include lower overall costs, increased consistency and quality between different language versions. A translator for which the target language is the first learned and routinely spoken language.