Six ways to create personal glossaries
Course summary | Start time: | Feb 15, 2017 09:00 GMT  Add to calendar 
Duration: 120 minutes.
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| | Language: | English | | Summary: | Join us and learn or practise 6 methods to create personal glossaries in 1 hour. |
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Description Six methods to create personal glossaries will be discussed in a little more than one hour. Join us to recognize approaches to glossaries which you did not know before or found too irritating to try. No matter if you use CAT tools or not and regardless of your area of expertise I will do my best to offer solutions suitable in your case.
You will learn how to create glossaries, types of glossaries that are most useful with most recent software and make traditional paper resources more efficient. Target audience Freelancers starting in the industry.
Experienced translators who would like to give a try to new methods of handling resources. Learning objectives During this course you will learn:
★ How to create and maintain glossaries using rarely used functions of popular software (e.g. MS Word)
★ How to create glossaries using tools which are not intended for this purpose (OCR)
★ How to prepare "non-terminological" glossaries and why?
★ How to create glossaries using batch tools intended exactly for this purpose (online ones or those incorporated in CAT tools)
★ How to be more efficient at using regular, oldschool terminology resources Prerequisites There are no special prerequisites. ★ Creating glossaries in OCR tool (here Abby FineReader)
★ Creating glossaries in Microsoft Word using indexing (checking consistency in non-CAT projects)
★ Creating glossaries in Microsoft Word with macros
★ Creating glossaries with online tools (here TEXT™)
★ Creating glossaries with functions integrated in CAT tools (here example of MemoQ)
★ Preparing glossaries which do not contain any specialist terminology – how and why?
★ Tips concerning traditional means of using terminology resources Registration and payment information (click to expand) Click to expand To purchase your seat at this session please click on the "buy" button. Available slots are limited and will be assigned to registered and paid participants as soon as payment is reported. Early payment is advised in order to secure participation. Allow some time for payment processing if you are paying by wire transfer.
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Courses will be open half an hour before the start time. Please login before the start time to ensure that everything on your system is working correctly. Created by Anna Fitak View feedback | View all courses | Bio: Anna Fitak is a freelance technical and software translator and outsourcer. A PhD in social sciences , doctoral student of linguistics and computer engineering. For 5 years she has been giving lectures to MTA students and attendees of numerous translation-related conferences. With over 8-year experience in translation she belongs to teams that provide translation for leading software, electronics and industrial equipment manufacturers. With basically no philological background she successfully established her business on her own. Keen CAT user and computer lover. Enjoys constructing useless electrical devices and learning programming languages. |
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