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  • Back to school… again!

    Paul Filkin
     
    After I did my last studies, apart from all the endless mandatory HR type training we have to endure these days, I thought that would be it for any sort of formal training for me.  In fact the main reason for me doing my last formal studies, TCLoc Masters degree at the University of Strasbourg, was to fill the gaps I thought I had given a complete lack of education in the field I’ve been working for the last 17-years…
  • Unveiling Our Latest Micro-Learning - Working with PerfectMatch!

    Unveiling Our Latest Micro-Learning - Working with PerfectMatch!

    Caroline Bernard
     

     Exciting News: Unveiling Our Latest Micro-Learning - Trados Studio Level 2 - Working with PerfectMatch!

    Greetings RWS Community!

    We're thrilled to share the launch of our newest addition to the Trados Studio Level 2 mini-learnings suite: "Working with PerfectMatch." 

    Course Highlights: 

     Duration: 30 minutes 

     Target Audience: Users with some Trados Studio experience looking to enhance their skills in handling…

  • NEW! micro Learning – Trados Studio Level 2: Reviewing Translations

    NEW! micro Learning – Trados Studio Level 2: Reviewing Translations

    Caroline Bernard
     

    Announcing Our Latest Micro-Learning Offering: Trados Studio Level 2 - Reviewing Translations! 

    We are thrilled to introduce you to our newest addition in the realm of Trados Studio Level 2 eLearning. Whether you are a seasoned linguist or a meticulous reviewer already well-versed in Trados Studio, this course is designed to take your skills to the next level in the art of reviewing translated documents.

    This 60-minute…

  • XML… unravelling chaos

    Paul Filkin
     
    Whilst I would definitely not claim to be an expert, writing this blog has allowed me to learn a reasonable amount about XML over the years.  Most of the articles I’ve written have been about explaining how to manage the many amazing features in the filetypes that are supported by Trados Studio… and of course how to deal with the many changes over the years as the filetypes have become more and more sophisticated catering…
  • NEW! Trados Studio Cloud Capabilities elearning!

    NEW! Trados Studio Cloud Capabilities elearning!

    Caroline Bernard
     

     Exciting News for the RWS Community! 

     

    Are you ready to level up your Trados Studio skills? We're thrilled to announce our latest course on "Trados Studio Cloud Capabilities". 

     

    This comprehensive 3,5-hours course is designed to provide you with a deep understanding of Trados Studio's cloud-based features. The course is divided into five modules, each designed to assist you in understanding and utilizing the…

  • Working under a cloud!

    Paul Filkin
     
    In the heart of LingoVille, translator Trina was renowned for her linguistic prowess but was a bit behind in the tech world.  When her old typewriter finally gave out, she received a sleek new laptop, which came with OneDrive pre-enabled.  Initially hesitant about this “cloud magic,” she soon marvelled at the convenience of securely storing her translations online, accessible from anywhere, safeguarding her precious work…

  • Going, going…. gone!

    Paul Filkin
     
    It may be a little small to read but my social highlights for twitter  were: joined in July 2010 tweeted 24.3K times follow 16 users followed by 1878 users With the exception of youtube twitter was the only social media account I had retained.  youtube is more of a place to host and share videos and less of a platform I have to visit for anything else, so my exposure to the material in there…

  • Linguistic Alchemy to unlock AutoHotkey

    Paul Filkin
     
    In the echoing halls of the Tower of Babel, myriad languages tangled, creating a confusion of tongues and leaving humans estranged.  Fast forward to the present day, professional translators stand as the modern-day heroes, bridging linguistic divides and fostering global connections.  Yet, these linguists often grapple with the technical juggernaut of AutoHotkey scripting. AutoHotkey, an open-source scripting language…
  • NEW! Trados Studio Level 2 eLearning modules

    NEW! Trados Studio Level 2 eLearning modules

    Caroline Bernard
     

    We are pleased to introduce you to 5 new Trados Studio Level 2 courses in eLearning format.

    These courses are for learners who already have an understanding of Trados Studio and who wish to improve their expertise in the use of the product.

    Course Details

    Trados Studio Level 2 Alignment

    This 30-minute course provides an overview on the alignment process in Trados Studio. Topics included are as follows:

    • An overview of…

  • Helping the Help!

    Paul Filkin
     
    I really like this image created by DALL·E of a man… maybe a businessman… on a wall, putting down his newspaper and reaching down to offer help to the worker with a ladder.  Created with only this prompt – “Helping the Help in the style of Richard Estes.”  When we read about how ChatGPT is “only” an advanced autosuggest we really need to think about how it must have some understanding of what was previously said to be…

  • Unlocking Linguistic Success: Navigating the Path to Translation and Localization…

    Paul Filkin
     
    The Studious Translator, a pen-and-ink illustration inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s style, depicts a student immersed in the world of translation and localization at a University participating in the RWS Campus academic programme.  Just as the Vitruvian Man embodies the ideal human proportions outlined by the Roman architect Vitruvius, this diligent student exemplifies the harmonious balance of linguistic mastery, cultural…

  • The elephant in my room…

    Paul Filkin
     
    The reaction I rarely see when discussing artificial intelligence with anyone is indifference.  The reactions I usually see are split between overflowing enthusiasm and overflowing concern.  I rarely have a conversation about them both.  But after writing a few articles on how useful it is, and obviously I spend most of my time in the overflowing with enthusiasm camp, I wanted to address the elephant in the room. The…

  • The elusive regex with GPT-4

    Paul Filkin
     
    Whilst the solving of regular expressions with ChatGPT seems like a great way to give yourself superpowers I have stayed away from writing about this usecase till now.  Yes, ChatGPT is great for those simple things that anyone with some basic knowledge could probably write themselves in the time it took to explain what was wanted.  But I like regular expressions… I’m definitely not a real expert, but I do like to play…

  • When error messages attack: using ChatGPT to make peace with your users!

    Paul Filkin
     
    I’m sure everyone reading this is no stranger to the often completely unintelligible error messages that can be generated when software goes wrong!  You can even find in the most voted for ideas in the RWS Community ideas platform that is related to just that, “ Get those cryptic error messages more human “.  As computers have become more and more complicated and software is  relying heavily on inbuilt technologies provided…

  • ChatGPT + Powershell = Localization Superpowers!

    Paul Filkin
     
    Localization engineers are the miracle workers behind the scenes of localization workflows, and without them many of the projects we see couldn’t happen.  The skillsets they possess go far beyond the sort of things that most translators know how to do, and often require the ability to code.  I’ve already written a little about these sorts of things in the last three or four articles I published this month, mainly because…

  • Never get lost with ChatGPT…

    Paul Filkin
     
    As I’m getting lost in my own thoughts around just what to talk about next with regard to AI technologies and in particular ChatGPT… and as I’m pondering about the effect this is going to have on our industry I recalled a couple of questions around the use of XPath in the community.  One of these questions was yesterday and it related to how to use XPath to extract one of the languages in a TMX file using the XML filetype…

  • Styling with ChatGPT!

    Paul Filkin
     
    Continuing the theme of how to make use of AI technologies to help with the more technical nature of localization I thought I could revisit an article I wrote back in 2013… this month a decade ago!  In that article I explained how to write a very basic stylesheet that could be used to provide more context when translating XML files.  To do that I had to learn some basics myself and that did give me enough of a skillset…

  • Say goodbye to doppelgangers with ChatGPT…

    Paul Filkin
     
    With all the excitement and interest around ChatGPT these days, and with the numerous interesting projects we’re working on at RWS that involve the use of AI, its hard not to allow the lure of the technology to pull you in.  Last month I wrote an article on corrupt translation memories, and in doing this I dabbled a little with SQLite queries… an SDLTM is a SQLite database.  They are pretty much new to me as I’ve only…
  • Introducing the Trados portfolio

    Introducing the Trados portfolio

    Mark Lawyer
     

    As you may know, we are the longest-standing translation technology provider and have pioneered how the translation industry has worked for the past 30 years. We are now in a new exciting era, and after becoming the General Manager back in April 2022, I'm proud to lead our cloud-first strategy across our family of products. As with all industries, technology evolves at a rapid pace, so I wanted to take a moment to…

  • TM corruption…

    Paul Filkin
     
    This is a topic that probably occurred a lot more in the old days of Trados and Translators Workbench where it was relatively easy to corrupt a translation memory.  In those days the translation memory consisted of five file types with the extensions .tmw, .mwf, .mtf, .mdf and .iix and when problems did occur it was probably related to the files that supported indexing and lookup speeds for example.  The .tmw file itself…

  • Community helps those who help themselves…

    Paul Filkin
     
    Everyone is probably familiar with a similar phrase, often mistakenly attributed with biblical origins, “the Lord helps those who help themselves”.  The phrase actually originated in ancient Greece through one of Aesop’s fables called “ Hercules and The Wagoner “: A Waggoner was once driving a heavy load along a very muddy way. At last he came to a part of the road where the wheels sank half-way into the mire, and the…

  • Can’t see the wood for the trees…

    Paul Filkin
     
    Back in 2015 I wrote an article called “ Good bugs… bad bugs! ” which was all about the unintended positive side effect as a result of computer software not working as intended.  I’d actually forgotten about this article until this weekend as I was pondering my own behaviour in responding to a post in the RWS Community.  In fact it was my wife that got me thinking as I allowed the community thread to frustrate me because…

  • Character counts…

    Paul Filkin
     
    The most viewed article I have ever written by far was “ So how many words do you think it was? ” which I wrote in 2012 almost ten years ago.  I revised it once in 2015 and whilst I could revise it again based on the current versions of Trados Studio I don’t really see the point.  The real value of that article was understanding how the content can influence a word-count and why there could be differences between different…

  • The portfolio merry-go-round…

    Paul Filkin
     
    Growing a product range, buying new companies, being bought yourself, adopting new technology, reorganising  etc… all of this creates significant change across an organisation that often feels as though you’re on a merry-go-round where things change as you go around until you’re back to where you started and then it all changes again.  I can only imagine that feeling applies to customers and employees alike as each revolution…