Machine Translation: A New Era

By 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, [...]

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. [...]

By Kåre Lindahl, CEO – Venga Got a mobile phone? Well, according to a late 2012 report from the ITU (International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations telecom agency), we’re pretty sure you do.  A total of 155 countries reported more than 6 billion existing mobile user subscriptions in 2011, pretty close to the human population of [...]

The software industry offers big opportunities for African countries. It opens up access to important technologies that benefit the continent, but also constitutes an area where Africa can contribute and generate innovation-led business opportunities. Recent developments in mobile technologies on the continent have opened up new avenues for innovation and software development, especially in local [...]

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about how simultaneous, automatic, on-demand translation is at hand. This year already, none other than The Economist has swooped in on this topic from its lofty perch – not once but twice. They prognosticate that “simultaneous translation by computer” is getting closer (http://econ.st/Vjick8), adding, “How long… before automatic simultaneous [...]

The so-called “advanced” economies of the world spent last year in a funk and their sideways slide along a variety of cliffs will continue well into 2013. Meanwhile, other global markets are picking up the slack. The old BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries, though still going strong, are losing ground to new artificial groupings [...]

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

AMTA 2012 Workshop has sent out its second call for papers on Post-Editing topics.

GALA delegates Serge Gladkoff (GALA Standards Director) and Demid Tishin (CEO, All Correct Language Solutions) report on the success of participating in the annual meeting of ISO Technical Committee 37.

June 20/21, Brussels, Belgium http://www.meta-forum.eu
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