Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Internal fuzzy matching: WFP 3.4 x Trados 2011 x MemoQ 6.2
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Yes
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
These kinds of calculations and calculated results have no great impact on the price I charge. [/quote]
One can calculate rates in many ways, and one method is to align the rate to the amount of time it will take to do the translation.
[quote]Charging per word is really simply a way to express all that goes into delivering a flawless product. [/quote]
That is true, and giving discounts for fuzzy matching is really a simple way to express the duration variable of "all that goes into" it.
[quote]Just because we have tools to perform certain (often very insignificant) word analyses doesn't mean we are now calculating our prices based on these analyses. [/quote]
I think you will find that it does.
[quote]1. The analysis isn't equivalent (or expresses) the actual amount of work that needs to be performed;
2. it is no measure of the quality of the translation;
3. it is no measure of the experience, the skills and commitment of the translator; [/quote]
All true, yes. But that doesn't mean fuzzy match statistics are completely useless for price determination. It should simply not be the *only* variable.
[quote]And that goes for any fields of expertise unless you have 100% repetitions of certain words or numbers in a text that not only are the same in the original text but also in the target text. [/quote]
Yes, yes, of course, and that is why you should not have one single rate for all types of translation and all types of clients and all types of document formats. However, that does not render the fuzzy match statistics useless for price determination.
Samuel
Topic: Internal fuzzy matching: WFP 3.4 x Trados 2011 x MemoQ 6.2
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Yes
[quote]Bernhard Sulzer wrote:
These kinds of calculations and calculated results have no great impact on the price I charge. [/quote]
One can calculate rates in many ways, and one method is to align the rate to the amount of time it will take to do the translation.
[quote]Charging per word is really simply a way to express all that goes into delivering a flawless product. [/quote]
That is true, and giving discounts for fuzzy matching is really a simple way to express the duration variable of "all that goes into" it.
[quote]Just because we have tools to perform certain (often very insignificant) word analyses doesn't mean we are now calculating our prices based on these analyses. [/quote]
I think you will find that it does.
[quote]1. The analysis isn't equivalent (or expresses) the actual amount of work that needs to be performed;
2. it is no measure of the quality of the translation;
3. it is no measure of the experience, the skills and commitment of the translator; [/quote]
All true, yes. But that doesn't mean fuzzy match statistics are completely useless for price determination. It should simply not be the *only* variable.
[quote]And that goes for any fields of expertise unless you have 100% repetitions of certain words or numbers in a text that not only are the same in the original text but also in the target text. [/quote]
Yes, yes, of course, and that is why you should not have one single rate for all types of translation and all types of clients and all types of document formats. However, that does not render the fuzzy match statistics useless for price determination.
Samuel