If you’re a professional translator of planet Earth, you’ve probably heard of Matecat, one of the most popular CAT Tools used worldwide as a helpful method for translating accurately into almost any language. Its easy practical functionality with a very easy system makes it ideal for anyone who needs to translate documents with massive amounts of words.

This web-based Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tool provides translators with a professional work environment, integrating translation memories, terminology bases, concordancers, and machine translation. The tool is completely developed as open source software and has proven to be useful for business, research and education.

During translation, the CAT tool queries the TM to search for exact or fuzzy matches of the current source segment. These matches are proposed to the user as translation suggestions. Once a segment is translated, its source and target texts are added to the TM for future queries.

MT suggestions can substantially improve the productivity of professional translators. MateCat leverages the growing interest and expectations in statistical MT by advancing the state-of-the-art along three directions:
• Self-tuning MT, i.e. methods to train statistical MT for specific domains or translation projects;
• User adaptive MT, i.e. methods to quickly adapt statistical MT from user corrections and feedback;
• Informative MT, i.e. supply more information to enhance users’ productivity and work experience.

Some benefits of using Matecat

• It’s free, which gives freelance translators the advantage of being able to use a CAT tool without paying for expensive software.
• You can assign a job to another translator when you work with a team.
• It accepts a variety of file formats, and even produces a weighted word count when source documents are uploaded.
• It has a friendly user interface and a comfortable design. They both have an organized system where you can easily find the information.
• It offers the option to use its internal translation program which has a very broad database and it feds and it updates through the feedback of the users.
• It’s easy to install and easy to understand.
• Words suggested by this translation software are of professional importance.
• It retains original data format after translation.
• Language translation is faster than other software available in the market.
• It gives user meaningful translation with utmost accuracy.
• You can see how many words you have translated and how much time you will need to spend in order to conclude the translation.
• It segments the parts along the texts. Also, it keeps the same format you have previously about the document.
• Availability and compatibility: you can use Matecat with your favourite browsers, on a laptop or tablet; most file formats can be uploaded.
• You can use your translations memories for the new translations, as well as your glossaries.

The MateCat Tool represents today probably the best available open source platform for investigating, integrating, and evaluating under realistic conditions the impact of new machine translation technology on human post-editing.

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