{"id":5166,"date":"2018-10-10T19:45:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skrivanek.sk\/uncategorized\/what-does-cat-stand-for\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:30:41","slug":"what-does-cat-stand-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/what-does-cat-stand-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What does CAT stand for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it is medicine, electrical engineering or even gastronomy, the expertise provided by\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CAT<\/span>\u00a0tools is very important for the final output and the satisfaction of all those involved \u2013 the customer, the vendor\u00a0and, ultimately, the user who will read the document. Of course,\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CAT<\/span>\u00a0tools will not \u201cjudge\u201d input data sent for\u00a0translation (more on\u00a0the topic of input data is included in the GIGO\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skrivanek.cz\/cz\/blog\/pdf-je-gigo\"><span class=\"caps\">PDF <\/span>\u00a0\u00a0article<\/a><\/u>).\u00a0<strong>Their function is\u00a0<\/strong>to save time and costs and preserve the high quality of translations, as\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CAT<\/span>\u00a0tools use translation memory technology\u00a0. In short, this means that repeated text that has already been translated once into the target language in the\u00a0document does not need to be translated again \u2013 the translator is offered the option to use the already translated segment. This applies even when\u00a0a completely different document is being translated. This feature is particularly suitable for\u00a0<strong>technical documents<\/strong>, but is not suitable for artistic texts, which should be\u00a0original by nature.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to translation memory,\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CAT<\/span>\u00a0tools have a terminology database\u00a0<em>.\u00a0<\/em>This database, unlike translation memory, is not created in\u00a0the translation process, data must be written into it instead. So, we could have the English\u00a0<strong>terminology<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0the field of information technology, and then when localizing software using\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CAT<\/span>\u00a0tools, there is no danger that, for example, the term \u201cuser-friendly\u201d will be translated as \u201cuser-cuddly\u201d\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>Kl\u00e1ra Malinov\u00e1, Marketing Specialist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abbreviation CAT (Computer Aided Translation) refers to computer tools that are used, for example, in specialised translations. These tools not only help save time in translation, but also maintain terminological consistency throughout the document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.skrivanek.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}