Five Models and a Challenge: Past, Present and Future of Translator Training...
Argentina has a long-standing tradition in translator training. This article has two purposes. On the one hand, it seeks to describe four translator training models prevailing in Argen- tinean...
View ArticleSeeing the Wood for the Trees: Reassessing Research Agendas in Specialized...
There is a case for widening the scope of translation—and in- deed professional communication—to encompass the broader communication community as a whole because, ultimately, we are all concerned with...
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View ArticleAssessing the Overall Quality of a Document Based on Editorial Comments
Technical writers are often responsible for creating and maintaining multiple documents. In organizations where a formal editorial review is integral to the documentation process, technical writers who...
View ArticleTermWiki: A New Collaborative Terminology Management Solution
The development of TermWiki provides organizations with an open-source, easy-to-use environment for managing terminology. Uwe Muegge explains the benefits of this system and how it works.
View ArticleStudent Project: With Free Machine Translation, Is International English...
With free machine translation software such as Google Translate, is the translation of 'international English' better than the translation of 'plain English'?
View ArticleContent Management Systems and Translation Memory: Creating Management Buy-In
Your department is faced with tighter deadlines, more products in the pipeline, staff reductions, an expanded list of standard languages for a typical release as well as pressure from management to...
View ArticleManaging a Translation Flow: Best Practices
Managing global content combines content management and content translation processes. Each of these draws on different technologies and skills. Companies publishing multilingual information without...
View ArticleUp-Front Translation Strategies Save Big Time Downstream
Effective delivery of content across languages requires up-front attention to three main areas: 1) translation-friendly authoring strategies, 2) leveraging of content management technologies, and 3)...
View ArticleXML Text Memory (xml:tm)
xml:tm (XML-based Text Memory) is the vendor-neutral open XML standard for embedding text memory directly within an XML document using XML namespace syntax. xml:tm leverages the namespace syntax of XML...
View ArticleTranslating Product Documentation
Documentation provided in the speaking language of a market is often a requirement for product launch, often adding considerable burdens to the creation of this content as a company increases its...
View ArticleTranslation Workspace Will Take Translators To Cloud 9
An eye-opening experience with my son made me realize that our new translation workspace, will give translators the means to reach out to the cloud to work. And cloud 9, I must say. Finally, a robust...
View ArticleWriting for Translation: Internationalization Skills for Content Developers
Very commonly content developers are disconnected from the localization process, rendering them unable to contribute to the effectiveness of the process in terms of cost, efficiency and overall...
View ArticleUnderstanding Translation Glossaries
Choosing the right word is a deliberate decision. Making sure everyone in your company uses the same term for the same concept requires discipline. All of this becomes even more complex as you attempt...
View ArticleJust Translate Please: a Message to the Industry
Ah, life in the localization industry ain’t easy. For twenty years now we have been preaching and proclaiming how important and precious our profession is. And still our customers won’t listen. They...
View ArticleTranslation Commoditization: Some Recipes for Defending Ourselves
If Oscar Wilde were alive and well and working in the localization business today, he would probably describe the “Procurement Executive” as a person “who knows the price of everything and the value of...
View ArticleDo the Math! The Changing Calculus of Translation
How do you calculate likely future needs for translation/localization?
View ArticleHow TMS Developers Pitch Their Wares to LSPs
For those of you keeping score, TMS often gets sold under the moniker of "globalization management system" (GMS); we have long found that term to be a gross distortion of what these systems actually...
View ArticleManaging Translation for Global Applications
Rather than dealing with globalization (a particularly vague term for many people anyway), TMS systems focus on one major consequence of going global – the need to manage multiple streams of...
View ArticleOpportunities for the Localization Job Seeker
The changing economic climate of the past few years has meant changing realities for the job seeker looking for opportunities in localization (L10n). Industry players, priorities, and technologies have...
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