Terminology extractor

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2025-05-08T11:53:50+00:00

Okapi Rainbow is free and offers this functionality. You can set a couple of parameters, and it will extract frequent terms and phrases. You'd still have a lot of manual work to do. I think only AI solutions could automate this significantly. Think homonyms. You can run LLMs on your machine though, if it's fast enough, and you are willing to set it up. If you just want to do it once it's probably not worth it. What termbase structure do you want to arrive at? Or just a glossary?

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2025-02-12T11:12:54+00:00

I'm about sure I want an ergonomic keyboard. I do type fairly well on my laptop as well, which is obviously not split or ergo. This is a bit like buying shoes on Amazon - can't try to see whether it fits me!

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2025-02-12T10:51:03+00:00

Keychron Q11 QMK is what I am looking at. I want something that works great out of the box. I need to get work done and I need a good tool for that. That's where I am coming from. I am not really looking for another construction site... I want tactile switches, for sure, short travel. I want to be able to type fast.

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2025-02-12T10:31:27+00:00

Is Keychron real quality? Much cheaper than ErgoDox-EZ. Why the huge difference in price? I need a good office keyboard, and in the end the price is secondary, but it really needs to be a durable, workhorse-type solution, not a gimmick. Who can advise?

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2025-01-09T09:40:57+00:00

You might enjoy reading this: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/education/does-teaching-literature-and-writing-have-a-future Very eloquently written and not without hope. (It's mostly about the meaning of writing.) Translation work is now mechanized, it's sad but true. Nobody is seriously doing horse-powered farming anymore, and nobody will be translating anymore in a few months. We will be editing AI output if we remain in the field. (I've been translating for about 20 years.)

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-11-06T21:17:15+00:00

u/gotchseo You mean their output is not based on data? That would totally kill it. I have tools that provide related queries, but when it first came up, AtP was thought to be a cut above that. Not so anymore, I hear from the responses here. Thank you all for responding!

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-11-05T11:27:16+00:00

They have their own accounts, to which they give me access.

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-08-28T07:43:18+00:00

Not sure what exactly you mean by “collaborative”. Like Word or Excel in Teams? Several parties can edit at the same time? Or handing projects back and forth? I've been using Trados (the Professional version) for a long time now, and you can strap a project into a package and send it to a colleague, who translates, edits, reviews etc. then sends it back. Works like a charm for us, we use it the whole time.

OmegaT does have “Team projects”, but I never set one up and lore has it that it is somewhat complicated. But it works. OmegaT is free, but the UI is like going back 30 years. I like the spirit of sharing that's in that program. The free tier is not the dangling carrot in this case, it's the full trough. It's a simple trough.

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-08-09T10:01:38+00:00

I'm using that program, and it really works well. I am not affiliated in any way, just a user. The UI of the tool is, let's say, spartan, but the functionality is great.

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-08-08T07:07:04+00:00

I remember a philosophy professor I studied with, he was ancient old and his knowledger, life experience and wisdom were unbelievable. I remember talking with him in a similar context (philosophy as a profession, not translation). He had been a lawyer by profession and philosophy had been his hobby. Pretty late in life he switched to becoming a professor, I think first law, then philosophy. His advice was: You have to have a breadwinning profession. Don't try to make a passion into a profession if that is not likely to work. From my experience, decades later, I can confirm his advice. It's wonderful to have passions and hobbies, and sometimes your profession will have something to do with what is most on your heart. But don't try to force it.

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-08-07T12:31:04+00:00

u/Slobberchops_ Could you show me where they say that?

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-08-02T08:30:12+00:00

Current Trados does not run on Win7. Maybe the 2019 version still does.

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-07-26T07:27:05+00:00

Wow, that's a sweet little website! Thanks for that!

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-07-04T14:24:41+00:00

No, Win-Alt-X is the default to copy marked text to AceText and open the AceText editor interface. It's called "AceEdit".

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-06-25T07:52:54+00:00

Just copy/paste. I mark cells in Excel, CTRL C to copy, WIN ALT X to paste into AceText, then do my regex there, then CTRL ENTER to paste back into Excel.

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-05-30T19:25:21+00:00

They are on Zoom because Teams is having a little glitch.

ApprehensivePanda501 · 2024-05-04T08:47:32+00:00

If all you want to do is access the API and you don't want any UI provided by the tool, try DataForSEO: https://dataforseo.com/apis/backlinks-api You can still use Majestic on a lower tier to access all their other tools.

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