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, [...]

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

At META Forum, GALA Standards Director Serge Gladkoff presented on behalf of GALA, spotlighting our European membership’s collective expertise in the domain of development and use of language technology.

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.

There are a number of events planned in coming months that will highlight the GALA Standards Initiative and its programs. We invite you to join us for these events and to learn more about the GALA Standards Initiative.

GALA announces a partnership with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Translation and Brigham Young University Translation Research Group to standardize the way that translation projects are sent and received. We invite interested parties to help define this new standard.

The W3C has received a proposal to add a “translate” attribute to HTML5. This attribute would provide explicit, standardized instructions in HTML files to help control translation processes (human or machine translation) that use HTML input. The W3C requires demonstration that this proposal would address a widespread and common need and that it is the proper way to address this issue. We encourage you to add constructive comments to the dialogue about this proposal.

The LISA/OSCAR standards are now available again to the public with an open license. GALA is privileged to be hosting copies of these documents and to make them available.

ASTM International announces a new standard that will provide useful, timely, reliable, and reproducible tests of language proficiency for general communication purposes.

GALA board member and Standards Initiative Advisor Serge Gladkoff of Logrus International shares why the GALA standards initiative is important for the industry at large.