SDL Knowledge-based Translation System™ (SDL KbTS™) provides high-quality translations, accelerated time-to-market and reduced total cost for the world's leading brands. The power of the solution lies in the combination of sophisticated machine translation technology with other translation automation technologies and human linguistic skills.

A breakthrough in machine translation quality

A major advance from traditional translation memory-based processes, SDL Knowledge-based Translation System™ (SDL KbTS™) delivers a breakthrough in translation quality and throughput and significantly reduces the total cost of translation - up to 50% faster whilst saving up to 40% on traditional translation services.

With organizations facing the increasing pressures of high volumes of content, needing to be turned around rapidly and at lower cost, some organizations are today considering machine translation. Machine translation alone can provide a certain level of support to customers, but for companies wishing to maintain high quality content, whilst delivering it faster and at less cost, SDL Knowledge-based Translation System is the solution. 

Benefits of SDL Knowledge-based Translation System

Drive revenues in new global markets 

• Build a better business case for entering new markets
• With fewer humans involved in translation, costs are reduced

High-quality translations

• The combination of sophisticated machine translation software and human linguistic skills provides greater consistency of translations
• Combines terminology extraction, translation memory, machine translation and translation management technology to provide high-quality output
• A knowledge base is updated to store human linguistic modifications to continually improve translations

Accelerate time-to-market

• With translation throughput at 3 times faster than traditional methods, time-to-market is typically reduced by 50% or more
• A translation management system automates the distribution of files for translation, working faster and more efficiently than humans
• New or updated content can be recognized as material for translation as soon as it has been updated and automatically passed through the system

The completion of our globalization project is an important step forward in serving the needs of our more than five million international travel guests who stay with us each year. The ability for our customers to learn about properties or book a reservation in their native language is an absolute necessity for our continued global expansion and growth.

David Kong, President and CEO, Best Western International

Features

SDL Knowledge-based Translation represents a breakthrough in the translation process itself. Terminology extraction, including key phrases, is automated through SDL PhraseFinder. The translated terms and phrases are used by SDL Enterprise Translation Server, which draws on this terminology knowledge base to enhance the quality of the automated translations.

SDL Translation Management System manages the entire SDL Knowledge-based Translation System process, first matching source texts against translation memory, and then using SDL Enterprise Translation Server to automate the remaining translation. Post-editing and quality review is all that is required to complete the translation.

Translated text is saved in the master Translation Memory and the master dictionary is also updated with any new terms and phrases, enhancing the knowledge base for future translations to reduce the amount of post-editing required.

SDL KbTS is built to use open standards such as TMX and XML, ensuring your investment in software, services and translation assets is fully protected.

To find out if you can benefit from SDL Knowledge-based Translation System for your translation requirements, contact us now for a free assessment by one of our knowledge-based translation experts.

Technical Details

SDL Knowledge-based Translation System is a fully outsourced solution. The only software requirement is access to a web browser.