Optimizing Lara's results

To achieve the highest levels of accuracy and stylistic consistency, Lara leverages a sophisticated, multi-layered adaptive engine. By providing the right context, memories, and instructions, you ensure that each translation is perfectly aligned with your brand's voice and with the specific requirements of the industry.

Context awareness

Lara employs a dual-context approach to ensure semantic accuracy and technical integrity, analyzing both the structure of the text and external guidelines.

Internal context

Automatically extracted from the source text to preserve its logic and structure.

• Structural mapping: Analyzes sister strings and the hierarchy to ensure grammatical accuracy and proper pluralization.
• Code integrity: Protects placeholders (e.g., {{user}}) and HTML tags from any corruption.

External context

Additional information provided to clarify the purpose, the target audience, and the visual placement.

• Developer notes: String-level descriptions for improved disambiguation (e.g., placement within the user interface).
• Project metadata: Overarching guidelines that define the target audience or industry.

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Using both types of context can reduce manual post-editing by up to 40%.

Translation memories (TM)

Lara leverages historical translation memory data to ensure consistency. This way, previously translations are reused, saving time and maintaining a consistent brand voice.

• Flexible selection: You can manually specify the TMs or let Lara's engine automatically select the most relevant ones.
• TM generation: If you don't have an existing TM, we can generate one for you based on your previous translations.

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Lara can handle both user-defined private TMs and industry-standard global memories.

Accuracy through glossaries

Glossaries ensure that technical terms and brand names are translated exactly as intended. The terms defined in your glossary serve as rules that take precedence over the predictions of the standard model and the TMs.

• Terminology control: Require specific translations for industry-specific jargon or acronyms.
• Brand protection: Ensure that your product names and slogans remain identical in all target languages.

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Use glossaries for terms that do not allow for any creative interpretation.

Style guides and Lara Prosa

For content of high editorial value, Lara Prosa offers an advanced style service. We analyze your past editorial decisions to create a unique style guide, ensuring that your tone, rhythm, and personality are preserved.

• Preservation of nuance: Refines the text to maintain the distinctive personality of the original.
• Editorial insights: Provides structured notes explaining the reasons behind key stylistic choices.

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Use Lara Prosa for blogs, essays, and editorial content.

Localization instructions

Custom instructions allow you to set out detailed rules for the localization process, providing guidance that translation memories or glossaries alone cannot offer.

• Technical constraints: Set character limits for user interface strings or define specific formatting rules.
• Language preferences: Provide the model with guidance on gender neutrality, tone, or specific regional dialects.

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Instructions are expert localization directives not LLM prompts. Use instructions only on content that matches a specific condition, see examples.

Overview

Lara's strength lies in its multi-layered adaptive engine; by combining these features, you can create a tailor-made translation environment. Whether it's technical user interface text or a nuanced blog post, choosing the right combination of tools ensures that communication remains accurate, professional, and consistent with the brand.