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TRANSLATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY |
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Where are Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft taking us? It's become a standing joke in technology crystal-ball gazing: fully automatic machine translation will be available "within five years", a prediction made regularly since the 1980s. Well, this time it seems to be true. |
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| SURVEY |
Is there a need for global postediting guidelines? Take the survey (5 minutes to complete) |
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| EVENTS - CONFERENCES |
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TAUS User Conference 2010 Take the pulse on the future of translation October 3 - 6, 2010 / Portland (OR), USA
Keynote debate Keith Mills, SDL, and Smith Yewell, Welocalize What is open? Why collaborate? What's next for MT?
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| EVENTS - WORKSHOPS |
How to implement open source MT solutions October 3, 2010 / Portland (OR), USA
How to evaluate the quality of MT output October 3, 2010 / Portland (OR), USA
Best practices for postediting October 4, 2010 / Portland (OR), USA |
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ARTICLES - PERSPECTIVES
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Breaking down the language barrier Innovation in healthcare engagement Earlier this year I wrote about how language barriers are creating a new digital health divide and I suggested that the single biggest barrier to successfully connecting patients online internationally is language. |
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ARTICLES - USE CASES
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Imagine you are small language service provider Eat or be eaten Imagine you are a small LSP, one of the thousands of translation agencies listed in the Yellow Pages of the world. You are kind-of midlife. Business is tough. You exist because of the words you sell but your word rates are under pressure every year. |
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| TAUS DATA - YOUR TECHNOLOGY |
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One is ten Translation Matching by TAUS Data Association We are on track for TAUS Data Association (TDA) to deliver Translation Matching as a new service in October. This means that everyone - translators, agencies, buyers - can retrieve and reuse translations directly from the industry supercloud of translation memories |
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| TAUS DATA - OUR MISSION |
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6 ways TDA differs from other sharing initiatives We are increasingly being asked how TAUS Data differs from other sharing initiatives in the industry. The difference is actually very clear. |
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