Mapping Today’s Translation Evaluation Practices and Needs

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, [...]

After 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 [...]

By 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 [...]

Por Diego Bartolomé – Tauyou La versión inglesa fue traducida automáticamente gracias a tauyou <language technology> y después post-editada. Lea la versión inglesa aquí. Seguro que ustedes han utilizado uno de los muchos traductores automáticos (TA) online para traducir un texto breve o una página web. Si usted no habla el idioma de destino, probablemente [...]

By Robert Etches – CIO, TextMinded Danmark & Vice-chairman of GALA 83K Lufthansa flight no. LH 843 is about to depart from Frankfurt and I with it – away from the early spring snowstorm enveloping Europe. You know you’re on a large plane when the boarding pass is telling you to go to seat no. [...]

Gain exposure to emerging professionals from the Monterey Institute of International Studies by participating in their Career Fair 2013. Friday, 8 March Monterey Conference Center President’s Welcome Breakfast: 9:00 am-10:00 am Check-in begins at 7:30 am (Early check-in and set up on Thursday, March 7th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm) Exhibition Open: 10:00 am-3:00 pm Employer Happy [...]

The Imperial College Management Board has announced that the activities carried out by the Translation Studies Unit (TSU) are not considered core to the College strategy and that, if possible, the Unit should be transferred to another institution. If this solution proves not to be feasible, consideration will be given to closing the unit by [...]

The Department of Communication in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland (College Park) has announced their new Graduate Studies in Interpreting and Translation program (GSIT). The program is now accepting applications for Fall 2013 admission and are writing to let you know about our GSIT degree program. Part-time and full-time study is [...]

LIND-Web, the European Commission, and DG Translation invite you to participate in the LIND-Web Language Industry Survey.

Are you interested in international technology and communication? Join the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington on May 29th for an information session about its Global Technology & Communication Management (GTCM) certificate program. Two instructors of the program will be present to discuss the features of the certificate and answer any questions that you might have.