How to prepare (and translate) an SmPC

Posted on 21 January 2013 by Emma Goldsmith

EMAThe European Medicines Agency has just added a section called “How to prepare an SmPC” to its website. The aim of the new section is to help applicants include quality information in a clear and concise way when submitting a Summary of Product Characteristics. As translators, the section provides a useful new resource for enhancing our understanding of the SmPC, although unfortunately it’s only available in English. Read more…

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Open Document vs. New Project in SDL Trados Studio 2011

Posted on 8 January 2013 by Emma Goldsmith

Open Document / New Project

In Studio 2011 there are basically two options for translating a file: “Open Document” or “New Project”. You can select them by clicking the icons on the Home page, from the File tab or from the standard toolbar. But which is the best option? Read more…

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Finding My Invincible Summer

Posted on 27 December 2012 by Emma Goldsmith

Finding My Invincible SummerThis is a review of a book called “Finding My Invincible Summer”, by fellow translator Muriel Vasconcellos. I e-met Muriel for the first time on the ProZ Spanish to English medical terminology forum a few years ago and she soon gained my respect for her valuable contributions there. So when I learnt that she had published her autobiography a month ago, I was keen to learn more about the person behind this ProZ profile. Read more…

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Thoughts on Machine Translation and Post-Editing Analysis

Posted on 11 December 2012 by Emma Goldsmith

This is a guest post by Jason Hall that he has written in response to my blog article on MemSource and Studio 2011: a side-by-side comparison. Jason is concerned about the post-editing analysis feature in MemSource and its implications for translators: Read more…

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The intricacies of display in SDL Trados Studio

Posted on 6 December 2012 by Emma Goldsmith

Resizing windows in SDL Trados Studio 2009 / 2011As promised in my post on Zoom, font and display issues, here is a follow-up on more advanced display features in Studio 2011, 2014 and 2015. When you install Studio for the first time and open a file to translate in the Editor window, you’ll have all the default display settings in place. It looks a bit cluttered, but luckily there are lots of ways to customise it to suit you. Read more…

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Safe Surgery Saves Lives

Posted on 22 November 2012 by Emma Goldsmith

I’ve been translating an article on patient safety this week and in the course of my terminology research I came across the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, a brief but useful reference on the subject. It’s available in English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, French and Russian, so I’m lucky that my language pair is covered. Read more…

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Memsource and Studio 2011: a side-by-side comparison

Posted on 9 November 2012 by Emma Goldsmith

I recently completed a large project using Memsource. My tool of choice is SDL Trados Studio 2011 and although I didn’t like having another tool imposed on me by my project manager, I was pleased to have the chance to put Memsource through its paces. Read more…

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Statistics One: Final Report

Posted on 29 October 2012 by Emma Goldsmith

Here is my final report on the Statistics One course that finished last week. After covering variance, correlation, and single/multiple regression in the first half of the course, we learnt about mediation, moderation, t-tests and ANOVA in the second half. The last three weeks were packed with new concepts for me and I felt we fairly galloped through some of the lectures to cover all the contents as scheduled. Read more…

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: a new multilingual TM

Posted on 23 October 2012 by Emma Goldsmith

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has just published a translation memory (TM) containing topics on infectious diseases. The content was originally written in English and the CdT (EU Translation Centre) has translated it into the 23 official languages of the EU plus Icelandic and Norwegian. Read more…

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A Spanish-English statistics glossary for clinical trials

Posted on 15 October 2012 by Emma Goldsmith

Here’s a glossary (or more of a list) of Spanish/English statistical terms that I’d like to share with you. I created it with SDL Multiterm and use it for reference when I translate clinical trials. Read more…

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