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CAT Tools
Software environments supporting professional translation through TMs, termbases, and quality checks.
Definition
Software environments supporting professional translation through TMs, termbases, and quality checks.
How It Works
CAT Tools helps teams build predictable AI and translation workflows by setting clear expectations for quality, consistency, and decision-making.
In production environments, this concept is applied with process controls such as human review, terminology alignment, and repeatable quality checks across multilingual content.
Key Concepts
- core principle of cat tools
- workflow-level implementation
- terminology and quality consistency
- human validation before publication
Where It Is Used
- localisation workflows
- AI translation pipelines
- multilingual content production
- cross-referencing related concepts such as chrF++