Computer-assisted translation tools range from basic spell checkers and grammar checkers to more advanced terminology managers, translation memories, and project management software. These tools can help improve consistency, researcher terminology, and manage complex translation projects. Supported file formats include Microsoft Office files, HTML, XML, and translation memory formats like TMX. The document provides examples of popular computer-assisted translation tools and their functions.

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CAT Tools = Computer-assisted translation
Computer-assisted translation is a broad and imprecise term covering a range of tools, from the fairly simple to the
complicated. These can include:
• Spell checkers, either built into word processing software, or add-on programs
• Grammar checkers, again either built into word processing software, or add-on programs
• Terminology managers, which allow the translator to manage his own terminology bank in an electronic form. This
can range from a simple table created in the translator's word processing software or spreadsheet, a database created
in a program such as FileMaker Pro or, for more robust (and more expensive) solutions, specialized software
packages such as SDL MultiTerm, LogiTerm, Termex, etc.
• Electronic dictionaries, either unilingual or bilingual
• Terminology databases, either on the host computer or accessible through the Internet
• Full-text search tools (or indexers), which allow the user to query already translated texts or reference documents of
various kinds. Some such indexers are ISYS Search Software, dtSearch Desktop and Naturel
• Concordancers, which are programs that retrieve instances of a word or an expression and their respective context
in a monolingual, bilingual or multilingual corpus, such as a bitext or a translation memory
• Bitext aligners: tools that align a source text and its translation which can then be analyzed using a full-text search
tool or a concordance.
• Project management software that allows linguists to structure complex translation projects, assign the various tasks
to different people, and track the progress of each of these tasks
• Translation memory tools (TM tools), consisting of a database of text segments in a source language and their
translations in one or more target languages.

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Terminology creation
We recommend SDL MultiTerm Extract, a specialized program that automatically extracts potential terminology from client
texts. This tool produces a long list of term candidates. The next step is to clean up the list and remove any clearly
inaccurate suggestions. We then provide you with a clean list of term candidates, which you can quickly edit in a program
like Microsoft Excel and use as a starting point for further terminology work.
Style Guide (in Brazilian Portuguese and/or Latin American Spanish)
A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a
specific publication, organization or field. The implementation of a style guide provides uniformity in style and formatting
within a document and across multiple documents.

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Translation memory
Some translation memory programs function as standalone environments, while others function as an add-on or macro to
commercially available word-processing or other business software programs. Add-on programs allow source documents
from other formats, such as desktop publishing files, spreadsheets, or HTML code, to be handled using the TM program.
Formats and languages
Supported Document Formats
You can process the following document types by using memoQ:
Source Documents
• Adobe Framemaker™ (.MIF)
• Adobe InCopy™
• Adobe InDesign™ (.INDD - a free Language Terminal account is needed)
• Adobe InDesign™ (.INX)
• Adobe InDesign™ Markup Language (.IDML)
• AuthorIT (.XML)
• DITA (.DITA, .XML)
• FreeMind mind maps (.MM)
• GetText (.PO)
• HTML (.HTML, .HMT, .SHT)
• Java properties
• JSON
• Microsoft Word™ 2003 (.DOC, .RTF, .BAK, .DOT)
• Microsoft Word™ 2007-2010 (.DOCX)
• Microsoft Excel™ 2003 (.XLS, .XML)
• Microsoft Excel™ 2007-2010 (.XLSX, .XLSM)
• Microsoft Excel™ documents (.XLS, .XLT)
• Microsoft PowerPoint™ 2003 (.PPT, .PPS, .POT)
• Microsoft PowerPoint™ 2007-2010 (.PPTX, .PPSX, .POTX, .SLDX)

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• Microsoft Visio™ (.VDX)
• MS Help™ Workshop (.HHC, .HHK)
• OpenDocument text documents (.ODT, .ODF)
• Plain text (.TXT, .INF, .INI, .REG)
• Plain text from PDF files (.PDF)
• Rich Text Format™ (.RTF, two-column .RTF)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
• SDL Studio package (.SDLPPX)
• SDL TradosTag (.TTX)
• SDL Trados bilingual RTF (.RTF or .DOC, .BAK, pre-segmented)
• SDLXLIFF (.SDLXLIFF)
• TMX filter
• Typo3 pages (.XML)
• Wordfast Professional TXML (.TXML)
• ResX (.RESX)
• XML (.XML)
• XLIFF (.XLF, .XLIF, .XLIFF)
• XLIFF:doc
• YAML
• Any text based document can be imported for translation through the "regex text filter"
• Complex documents (for example HTML embedded into Excel files) can be imported in a friendly way using cascading
filters
Bilingual Documents
• memoQ Bilingual Document (.MBD) - import only since memoQ 6.0
• memoQ XLIFF (.MQXLZ)
• SDL TradosTag (.TTX)
• SDL Trados bilingual RTF (.RTF or .DOC, pre-segmented)
• SDLXLIFF (.SDLXLIFF)
• Two-column .RTF export (.RTF)
• Wordfast Professional TXML (.TXML)
• XLIFF (.XLF, .XLIF, .XLIFF)
• XLIFF:doc
Project Files
• Handoff packages (.MQOUT)
• Handback pages (.MQBACK)
• Full memoQ project (.XPR) - memoQ 3.6 or lower
• memoQ server project (.SPR) - memoQ 3.6 or lower
• SDL Studio package (.SDLPPX)
• STAR Transit project (.PXF, .PPF)
• TIPP package
Translation Memories
• Translation Memory eXchange (.TMX) 1.1-1.4
• memoQ translation memories
Term bases
• Delimited files (.CSV, .TSV, .TXT)

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• Translation Memory eXchange (.TMX) 1.1-1.4
• memoQ term bases
Segmentation rules
• Segmentation Rule eXchange (.SRX)
Source: Wikipedia.com, SDL.com and Kilgray.com.
Reference available upon request, provided it does not breach my confidentiality agreement with such companies or clients.
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