The International Linguistic Freelance Platform 2Polyglot Is Launching a Contest for Translators

Online freelance service for specialists of language area invites linguists to participate in a contest and gives a possibility to win free translation software.

The prize is the popular translation software Swordfish Translation Editor provided by Maxprograms. Every package costs $320 out of the frames of the contest, but winners will get it for free. 3 winners will be selected with online service Random.org, which will define lucky translators.

The contest will last for one month from the 16-th of November up to and including date the 21-st of December. On the last day of this competition license keys will be send via email to winners. The Swordfish software can be downloaded on the official website Maxprograms.com.

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Contest conditions are quite simple:

  • Sign up on the linguistic freelance platform 2Polyglot https://2polyglot.com (current registered users may participate too);
  • Fulfill personal profile for 80% and more;
  • Like public page on Facebook fb.com/2polyglot or subscribe on Vkontakte fb.com/2polyglot.

The contest is dedicated to catholic Christmas and the prizes will presented 4 days before the holiday for not interrupting Christmas preparation. Selection process will be taped and provided in open access on 2Polyglot’s blog and pages in social networks.

Swordfish III is a CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool based on XLIFF 1.2 open standard, designed for demanding professional translators. Swordfish III supports exchanging TMX (Translation Memory eXchange), the vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer Aided Translation (CAT) and localization tools, originally published by LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association). Swordfish includes two translation engines: a "traditional" TM (Translation Memory) system that provides matching and Auto-Translation, an exclusive technology that assembles matches from regular TM databases and Terminology databases.

Google's Machine Translation engine and Microsoft's Bing Translator are fully integrated in Swordfish. It also accepts uncleaned (tagged) RTF produced by Trados or Wordfast and generates uncleaned RTF from regular RTF files.

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