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CAT4TRAD CAT Environment for the translation, revision and editing of documents in XML format (Akoma Ntoso)

#TranslatingEurope Forum – 27/10/2016

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2 AGENDA

CAT4TRAD as part of the e-Parliament programme

CAT4TRAD features

Future developments in CAT4TRAD

Video of Cat4Trad

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5 PROGRAM FULL SERVICE STACK

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6 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (1)

WYSIWYG view for two columns

Layout conveys information, XML is not visible

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7 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (2)

Handling multilingual source texts

Native multilingualism support

One shared multilingual memory

Dynamic generation of the final document

Automatic generation of translation memories

The document can be translated sequentially

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8 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (3)

Collaboration across languages

Fullcat: XML-based central memory

• Real time sharing of translated segments

• Normative and thematic memories

• MT integration

• Pertinence, ranking of results

• Scalability, robustness

Access to translations in other languages

Translation from pivot language

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9 SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (4)

Automatic mark-up of legislative amendments

Translators concentrate on the content, not the formatting

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10 • Support of new

documents:

• Plenary Amendments

• My House of European

History

• Reports

• CIBA (Budgetary AMs)

• Parlamentary Questions

• Editing

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12 QUESTIONS?

Thank you for your attention!