Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Efficiency of using CAT tools in comparison to using none
Poster: Inga Petkelyte
Post title: Negative for me
In my personal experience, CAT tools only increased the time and not the other way round. I could, probably, have benefited of a CAT tool when translating noodle labels - but that's the only (ok, in addition to soft drinks labels) case I can remember where it could have been useful. Where I did use a CAT tool upon client requests, those tools proved to be a burden rather than a boon. With 7 morphological cases in one of the target languages, the probability of a 100% match to be true is just 1 to 7 in pure theory, as the probability of a nominative case is much lower in practice and I can tell that adapting 3 or more word terminations in "100% match" phrases usually takes me more time than writing those words entirely from scratch.
Topic: Efficiency of using CAT tools in comparison to using none
Poster: Inga Petkelyte
Post title: Negative for me
In my personal experience, CAT tools only increased the time and not the other way round. I could, probably, have benefited of a CAT tool when translating noodle labels - but that's the only (ok, in addition to soft drinks labels) case I can remember where it could have been useful. Where I did use a CAT tool upon client requests, those tools proved to be a burden rather than a boon. With 7 morphological cases in one of the target languages, the probability of a 100% match to be true is just 1 to 7 in pure theory, as the probability of a nominative case is much lower in practice and I can tell that adapting 3 or more word terminations in "100% match" phrases usually takes me more time than writing those words entirely from scratch.