Topic > Translator's Responsibilities - 542

IntroductionNowadays, translation is no longer a task performed by a single person, but requires multiple participants to collaborate on the same project. Each team member plays a different role and helps drive the effectiveness of a translation task. This project consists of running the translation workflow in an industrial scenario. The team is made up of a project manager responsible for the entire process, one or two translators and a terminologist for each language pair. The author is assigned by the project manager as the first translator in the English-Chinese language pair. In this project, SDL Trados Studio 2014 provides a complete translation environment so that the team can work collaboratively and access shared resources such as project files, centralized terminology and relevant translation memories. Responsibilities as a translator The translator primarily produces output initial of the document. In this project, the author is responsible for translating the “Quilting” section of the source file, which is approximately 400 words, as indicated by the project manager. Based on...