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There are now several online services allowing access to aggregated translation memories. Please add any you know to the list below.

Resources

• Multilingual translation memories from European Commission. As of November 2007, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) made publicly accessible its multilingual Translation Memory for the Acquis Communautaire (the body of EU law) – a collection of parallel texts (texts and their translation, also referred to as bi-texts) in 22 languages. This is a page for technical users, where you will find a summary of this unique resource and instructions on where to download it and how to produce bilingual aligned corpora for any of the 231 language pairs (462 language pair directions). See http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html
• MyMemory - Free large TM. Offers an API supporting remote access to the TM. See: http://mymemory.translated.net/
• TAUS - Industry association formed for the purpose of sharing TMs, with large translation companies and end clients as participants. Some search capabilities are available online. http://www.tausdata.org/index.php/language-search-engine
• Linguee - "Search millions of sentences translated by other people." http://www.linguee.com
• [Glosbe http://glosbe.com/tmem] - Web interface for searching really big (more than 0.5 bln bitexts) TM/parallel corpora. A lot of bureaucratic, medical and "normal life" texts. A lot of languages covered (even less popular like Hebrew or Turkish)

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Publicly accessible translation memories (TMs)
Walter Moura  Brazil Local time: 19:52 English to Portuguese Linguee.com - Search millions of sentences translated by other people. Oct 13, 2010 What is Linguee? With Linguee, you can search many millions of bilingual texts for words and expressions. Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences. What is the benefit? When you translate texts to a foreign language, you usually look for common phrases rather than translations of single words. With its intelligent search and the significantly larger amount of stored text content, Linguee is the right tool for this task. ... See more What is Linguee? With Linguee, you can search many millions of bilingual texts for words and expressions. Every expression is accompanied by useful additional information and suitable example sentences. What is the benefit? When you translate texts to a foreign language, you usually look for common phrases rather than translations of single words. With its intelligent search and the significantly larger amount of stored text content, Linguee is the right tool for this task. You find: * In which context a translation is used * How frequent a particular translation is * Example sentences: How other people translated an expression By searching not only for a single word, but for a respective word in its context, you can easily find a translation that fits optimal in the respective context. With its large number of entries, Linguee often retrieves translations of rare terms that you don't find anywhere else. http://www.linguee.com/english-portuguese/page/about.php ▲ Collapse   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Ivana Kahle  Germany Local time: 23:52 Member (2007) German to Croatian + ... Linguee Oct 13, 2010 ... can be very useful, indeed. I've tried it myself several times.   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Henry Dotterer Local time: 17:52 SITE FOUNDER I'll add Linguee to the body of the wiki article Oct 13, 2010 Thanks. Feel free to edit the wiki directly, that's how it works...   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Michael Wetzel  Germany Local time: 23:52 German to English best for translations into a foreign language Oct 14, 2010 Hello, I also occasionally use linguee.de, but would like to emphasize that is is most helpful when translating into a foreign language. The results of linguee.de (at least de>en) are often not very reliable compared to a decent dictionary; but, when the results are good, linguee.de offers a lot more help in correctly using the term or phrase in the target language. This is a major issue when translating into a non-native language. (On the other hand, linguee.de tends to reinf... See more Hello, I also occasionally use linguee.de, but would like to emphasize that is is most helpful when translating into a foreign language. The results of linguee.de (at least de>en) are often not very reliable compared to a decent dictionary; but, when the results are good, linguee.de offers a lot more help in correctly using the term or phrase in the target language. This is a major issue when translating into a non-native language. (On the other hand, linguee.de tends to reinforce typical errors of non-native translators.) If the linguee.de results are then checked against a specialized or general monolingual dictionary or, better yet, against genuine parallel texts (vs. the translated texts offered by linguee.de) with a Google regional search or by other means, then it is a good tool. Sincerely, Michael PS: My main concern is that ▲ Collapse   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Lisa McCarthy  Spain Local time: 23:52 Member (2007) Spanish to English + ... Reliability of Linguee Feb 29, 2012 I agree with Michael. Linguee is useful sometimes, but remember that these are just translations done by other people, some good and some bad - you really need to be able to tell the difference. It's worth taking a look at the quality of some of the rest of the text, not just the phrase or word that you're looking for.   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
FarkasAndras  Local time: 23:52 English to Hungarian + ... OPUS Feb 29, 2012 You left out the most important one, OPUS. I tried adding it but some sort of login is required, and frankly, I won't bother with that.   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
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Stephen Reader Local time: 23:52 German to English Translationese to be taken with care Jun 7, 2012 Absolutely agree with Michael and Lisa. Linguee a resource of both inspired and risible/pitfall solutions; cueing "+wikipedia" with a search term in one of the pop. search engines in source & then target lang. (if there is one) is often more fruitful (though not every Wik. article is native-language either); & often a good point of departure for further, respective native-lang. links.   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)
Silvio Picinini  United States Local time: 14:52 English to Portuguese + ... Which ones can be used directly in CAT tools? Aug 1, 2013 They are all great as an external searches, but maybe it could be good to identify which of these can be used directly as TMs in CAT tools. It seems that MyMemory can be used in most tools. [Edited at 2013-08-01 05:33 GMT]   Subject: Comment: The contents of this post will automatically be included in the ticket generated. Please add any additional comments or explanation (optional)

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