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Building Value Beyond Translation
June 07, 2013By: Linda Richardson, President – All Clear Translations, LLC Working for clients in a highly competitive market can create opportunities to stand out as a preferred vendor. One value we offer that my clients often site is publishing interesting facts about emerging markets. As with all of us, our clients are so busy trying to stay [...]
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- Linda Richardson
- Education and Training, Globalization Forecast, emerging markets, exports, globalization, language, localization, russia, translation
- Time: 10:51 am
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No Measurement, No Improvement
May 30, 2013Ines Iros, CFO – suma As important as doing things correctly from the beginning is finding a way to monitor how we’re doing them in order to be able to improve. We need measurable and realistic results. Assumptions are no good and that’s why we need to establish metrics that will tell us how we’re [...]
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- Ines Iros
- Education and Training, balanced scorecard, BSC, globalization, language, localization, translation
- Time: 12:21 pm
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KISMET, the Language Enterprise, and You
May 23, 2013Last weekend, I gave a keynote talk at the first-ever all-Ukrainian translators conference (UTIC) in Kiev. One of the questions I asked some 400 attendees – Ukrainian and Russian freelancers, translation business owners, educators, and others – was, “Are you in the business that you want to be in? Are you satisfied with the income, [...]
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- hfenstermacher
- Events, GALA Partner Events, KISMET, ukraine, UTIC 2013
- Time: 12:03 pm
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Assessing translation quality has been hampered by the lack of open and widely accepted tools and methods that support the automation required by today’s workflows, but how can this hurdle be overcome? As part of a large-scale mapping of the translation and localization industries in order to push for a community-based solution to such hurdles, [...]
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- GALA
- Education and Training, Standards, CRISP, dfki, European Commission, quality assessment
- Time: 8:19 am
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Pricing paradox for the “forgotten Hispanics”
May 02, 2013By Joseph Gomes – Managing Director, Viva Translations Brazilians, the forgotten Hispanics? Ok, before you Brasukas get all in a huff, according to some, Brazilians are Hispanic. Now, it’s true that if you ask anyone to list all the countries whose native people are considered Hispanic – of which there are roughly 24 – almost [...]
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- Joseph Gomes
- Hispanic Market, Uncategorized, brazil, hispanic, language, latino, localization, portuguese, spanish, translation
- Time: 1:29 pm
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Ukrainian Translation Industry Conference
April 25, 2013350 agencies and freelance translators, mainly from Ukraine, Russia, and CIS countries, will meet in Kiev at the first Ukrainian Translation Industry Conference (UTIC) on 18-19 May. This event, featuring presentations by Hans Fenstermacher, Jost Zetzsche, Renato Beninatto, and 40 other well-known speakers will open up communication between the local and international professional communities. Russian [...]
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- GALA
- Events, GALA Partner Events, language, localization, russian, translation, ukraine
- Time: 12:51 pm
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Machine Translation: A New Era
April 22, 2013By Tony O’Dowd – Founder and Chief Architect (KantanMT) Machine Translation is a tool positioned to create new competitive advantage. However, most mid-sized localisation service providers are still intimidated by the complexity, cost and lengthy deployment times traditionally associated with production quality MT systems. In a world where margin erosion and price compression are daily challenges, [...]
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- Tony O'Dowd
- Industry Innovations, MT, language, localization, machine translation, post-editing, translation
- Time: 1:07 pm
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memoQfest 2013
April 18, 2013By Sandor Papp – Marketing Director, Kilgray When we were organizing the program for memoQfest 2013, GALA contacted us with a suggestion for a panel presentation. The topic for this discussion was, “Price isn’t everything: Positioning for growth, not price wars.” It is clearly one of the most important issues which could be brought up [...]
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- GALA
- Events, GALA Partner Events, globalization, kilgray, language, localization, memoQ, technology, translation
- Time: 2:12 pm
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Think Latin America: 21 countries. 2 languages. 1000 ideas.
April 11, 2013After three successful editions, Think Latin America makes it to Europe. Organized by GALA members Ccaps and SpeakLatam, Think Latin America is where leading industry experts, strategists, and true decision makers get together to talk about the region that continues to grow and attract investments every day. Could this growth be because of the more [...]
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- GALA
- Education and Training, Events, GALA Partner Events, Hispanic Market, globalization, language, localization, standardization, standards, Think Latin America, translation
- Time: 11:23 am
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Machine Translation Means New Business Models for LSPs
April 08, 2013By Diego Bartolomé – Tauyou The Spanish version of this article was post-edited from a machine translation prepared using tauyou <language technology>. Read the Spanish version here. No doubt, you have used one of the many online machine translators (MT) to translate a short text or a web page. If you didn’t speak the target [...]
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- Diego Bartolome
- Education and Training, MT, GALA Board, globalization, language, localization, machine translation, post-editing, translation
- Time: 1:14 pm
