GALA Top Localization Content - September 2023

It's time for our monthly recap! Whether you missed out or need a quick recap, the GALA Team's got the September highlights you can't afford to overlook.

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Do Machine Translation Models Dream of your Corporate Terminology?

Companies face many tech challenges when leveraging terminology to customize the MT output due to scattered glossary support on the MT side. Pavel Doronin (Intento) has compared all the options, so you don’t have to:

  • adding a glossary during the model training
  • using natively stored glossaries
  • sending glossary terms with translation requests
  • applying them on top of MT via tag injection
  • automated post-editing based on word alignment models.

This talk shares our insights about the benefits and drawbacks of those approaches for different commercial MT engines and language pairs.

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For a nice refresher on terminology management, we recommend our GALA Academy on Terminology Management. Experts will discuss PPT (i.e. People, Processes, and Tools. And yes, AI is going to be put to the test), how to make the case for terminology, how to leverage and harmonize data, and much more.

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Catalan Language, A Key to New Digital Markets

Catalan is one of the world’s languages with the most content online. Companies that don’t localize their products into Catalan are missing a huge opportunity. Ester Griera (Ushuaia Solutions) shares some insights.

Complement this with Neutral Spanish? What Is That? (by Germán Garis, GeaSpeak), and Non-sexist Uses of the Spanish Language (Ayelén Giraudo, Win & Winnow).

 

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Digital Asset Management in Localization

In the world of media localization, the need to dynamically manage assets is critical. A digital asset management system (DAM) can help localization teams actively manage assets securely, with improved automation and collaboration features.

Jamie Cox from the Blizzard Localization team discusses when a localization team might find a DAM useful, what goes into setting up a DAM successfully, and how to manage future DAM iterations.

For more on games localization, don't miss next week's webinar: MTPE Outside the Box with AI (Part 2): Improve Quality, Cost and TATs in Game Localization, presented by Viveta Gene (Ionian University), Cristina Anselmi (EA) and Fernando Velasco (EA).

 

 

Isabella Massardo

Content strategist at GALA. A linguist and technologist who has lived in Italy, Russia and the Netherlands. Through GALA, Isabella offers the localization community content that’s relevant, reliable, and timely. She is always on the lookout for thought-provoking globalization and localization topics.