More About Cycling​

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First Project

Translation of bike components and repair parts -mainly road bikes - to be sold through Amazon. These translations were technical and required the use of the right terminology while assuring that the product could be easily found online.

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Major Projects

• On-going freelance collaboration - Translation of marketing content such as blog articles, social media messages, press releases, catalogues, and websites. The cycling disciplines involved are road, mountain-bike, and gravel, including e-bike systems for urban cycling and mountain biking.

  • The translation of blog articles and websites requires the use of transcreation to convey the same message in a way that sounds natural and familiar to the Italian reader. Likewise, for the translation social media messages I have to respect the character limit set by Facebook and Twitter - here as well, special attention is given to transcreation, rather than translating word-for-word.

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• On-going freelance collaboration - This freelance collaboration consists in translating online learning materials for bike technician. The workflow involves the translation of subtitles and exams, a post-correction phase where I double-check the corrections made by the dealers, and a phase of subtitles revision meant to confirm they are in sync with the video and they don't exceed the limit of characters per subtitle.

  • ​Being intended for an audience of cycling professionals, these translations are highly technical. Nonetheless, the character limit requires to be creative and find a solution to shorten the Italian translation while preserving its core concept.

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• Occasional freelance collaboration - Translation and revision of cycling manuals for various brands. Manuals, more than other content, require consistency in terminology use and writing style. I always take care of these projects with the use of SDL Trados Studio, which helps me integrate any terminology databases and translation memories given by the client.

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More About Machine Translation Post-editing (MTPE)​

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Overview

Since my first machine translation post-editing (MTPE) project for the tourism industry, I been offering MTPE services mainly for this industry. At times, I work on projects for other industries, as long as the MT output is of fair quality. My work consists in medium to heavy post-editing of content pre-translated by the client/translation agency and post-edited within SDL Trados Studio. I rarely worked on projects that required light post-editing, but thanks to the various courses I have completed regarding MTPE, I know how handle each scenario while meeting the level of quality required. I know the limits and the advantages of post-editing, its history and its latest technology advancements, such as neural machine translation (NMT).

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So far I have post-edited over 150,000 translation units!

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First Project

I have been collaborating directly with Booking.com since 2015 to help them localize their hotels and apartments descriptions. This project consists in post-editing a mix of human and machine-translated text through Memsource (previously Google Translate Toolkit).

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Major projects

• On-going freelance collaboration - Post-editing of training materials for travel agents working for one of the largest companies in the travel industry. This project consist in post-editing machine-translated content within SDL Trados. I receive the pre-translated text and I take care of the post-editing. This is heavy post-editing with the strict implementation of the terminology provided by the end client.

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• Occasional freelance collaboration - Light to medium post-editing of content that varies from company guidelines to terms and conditions. This post-editing is done within SDL Trados Studio.