Glossary – Letter C

CAT Tools

Software environments supporting professional translation through TMs, termbases, and quality checks.

chrF++

A character-level machine translation metric evaluating similarity between system output and a reference.

COMET

A neural evaluation metric scoring translation quality based on semantic similarity and model judgments.

Confidentiality in Translation Workflows

Safeguards ensuring that customer texts remain private, protected, and not reused beyond authorised tasks.

Concordance Search

A tool function retrieving previous translations or term occurrences from a translation memory.

Context-aware Translation

Translation methods using surrounding sentences or document-wide information for better accuracy.

Context Window

The amount of text an AI model can process at once during translation or generation.

Continuous Localisation

A workflow where translation, QA, and updates occur continuously alongside product development.