| Acronym |
Explanation |
Comment
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| CAT |
Computer Assisted Translation |
Also Computer Aided Translation
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| CHM |
Compiled HTML Help |
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| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheet |
Describe the presentation semantics of markup documents(html, xml)
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| DTD |
Document Type Definition |
Markup declarations that define a document typ
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| DTP |
Desk Top Publishing |
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| ERP |
Enterprise Resource Planning |
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| FL |
Freelance Localizer |
Independent Localizers
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| GMS |
Globalization management System |
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| HT |
Human Translation |
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| HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language |
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| IPE |
International Project Engineer |
Also referred to as SLEor Loc Engineer
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| IPM |
International Project Manager |
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| LPM |
Localization Project Manager |
Also referred to as IPM
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| LQA |
Localization Quality Assurance |
Also Linguistic Quality Assurance - to assess the quality of localized content.
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| LSP |
Language Service Provider |
Also Localization Vendor
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| MLV |
Multi Language Vendor |
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| MT |
Machine Translation |
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| RC |
Release Candidate |
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| RFP |
Request For Proposal |
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| RFI |
Request for Information |
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| ROM |
Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Estimate |
A rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimate is the least accurate estimate. ROMs are -50% to +50% accurate, or potentially even larger. ROMs are used very early in the project when there is limited information from which to develop an accurate estimate.
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| RTF |
Rich Text Format |
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| RTM |
Release to Manufacturing |
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| RTO |
Release to Operations |
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| RTW |
Release to Web |
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| SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
ISO-standard technology for defining generalized markup languages
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| SL |
Source Language |
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| SLE |
Software Localization Engineer |
Also referred to as IPE
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| SLV |
Single Language Vendor |
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| SRX |
Segmentation Rule Exchange |
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| SWAG |
Scientific Wild-Ass Guess |
A rough estimate made by an expert in the field, based on experience and intuition.
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| SWOT |
Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis
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| TEP |
Translation, Editing, Proofreading |
Standard tasks included in localization
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| TL |
Target Language |
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| TM |
Translation Memory |
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| TMS |
Translation Management System |
aka GMS
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| TMX |
Translation Memory Exchange |
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| UA |
User Assistance |
Also referred to as UE, content, help, documentation
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| UE |
User Education |
Also referred to as UA, content, help, documentation
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| UI |
User Interface |
Also referred to as SW (Software)
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| XML |
Extende Markup Language |
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| XSL |
Extensibel Stylesheet |
Stylesheet for rendering and transforming XML data
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