Haiyi Lin’s Blog

Welcome to the blog of a localization engineer, Haiyi Lin.

Graduate of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, majoring in Translation and Localization Management. Multilingual translator with 7+ years of experience in English-Chinese translations, and a great passion for translation technology and localization management.

  • DTP Project Showcase

    BACKGROUND Working Title: First Night Monterey 2022 Poster Localization into Simplified Chinese Source URL: https://www.firstnightmonterey.org/Posters/index.htm Description: First Night Monterey is a new year celebration event that has a long history. This poster is the winner of the FNM 2022 POSTER CONTEST, and it is used as the official poster of this year’s event. Localizing this post allows more

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  • Project Overview I decided to modify an Ae Template first and then localize the video into Simplified Chinese. After the video is rendered in Ae, I will add additional dubbing and background music in Pr. I download the template on a resource website – Evtato Elements. Here is the original Ae template: It’s an animation

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  • Game Overview For this project, my colleague Yiwei Wu, Haoyang Qin, Yun, and I decided to try out our hands at localizing an open-source Unity game Glitcher into Simplified Chinese and Japanese. Glitcher is a Tactical Espionage game where you play as a computer virus. It was created by Rafi Emilio Alam & Sarada Chen for

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  • Overview This semester, I have been working as the Head of the Team in Translators for Elders (TFE). This is an unpaid practicum internship with credit-bearing. The internship would be a minimum of 20 hours per week for at least 15 weeks. Translators for Elders (TFE) is a nonprofit organization started in 2021 in order

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  • Game Overview For this project, my colleague Yiwei Wu, Jocelyn Kwong, Bahna Miller, and I decided to try out hands at localizing an open-source C# game Top Down Car Racing into Chinese and French. The coding language we used is C#. Specifically, we will use the Windows form and Resource file to localize the game. The following

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  • INTRODUCTION This portfolio includes the NMT Training Project and the TMS Project. NMT Training Project This pilot project aims to estimate the work involved in training a neural machine translation (NMT) engine for military news from English to Simplified Chinese. After the training, our BLEU score rise by 4.26, which is a promising result. Proposal

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  • For this project, my colleague Yiwei Wu, and I decided to try out hands at localizing an open-source web game Clumsy Bird into a Chinese version with sunset mode. File Preparation 1. Source file of the game Clumsy Bird is an open-source web game provided on GitHub. We first downloaded the source file from Github

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