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Language factors DE/FR/GB/SE to Finnish
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O3C
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Швеция
Local time: 00:44
немецкий => шведский
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Mar 20, 2008

Background: We will need to translate some patents from any of GB/FR/DE/SE to Finnish. The problem is that we only have source docs. on paper and of bad quality. The suggestion is then to count the words in the translation and calculate the number of words in the source document.

Problem: It does not seem to exist any common idea about the language factor (=number of words in the source text compared to thenumber of words in the translation).

Question: Who knows anythi... See more
Background: We will need to translate some patents from any of GB/FR/DE/SE to Finnish. The problem is that we only have source docs. on paper and of bad quality. The suggestion is then to count the words in the translation and calculate the number of words in the source document.

Problem: It does not seem to exist any common idea about the language factor (=number of words in the source text compared to thenumber of words in the translation).

Question: Who knows anything about the factors used (or where to find info about it) and, if possible, the background to this factor?

/ Olle ▲ Collapse
 
Spencer Allman
Spencer Allman
Великобритания
Local time: 23:44
финский => английский
Not sure what you mean Mar 21, 2008

Anyway a document in English of 5,000 words could boil down to 3,000-4,000 words in Finnish, if that is of any help.
 


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