The Future of Trados With Mark Lawyer
Trados General Manager, Mark Lawyer, on continuing to innovate translation technology products, leading a cloud-first strategy, and supporting the clients’ user experience.
*New* Slator Pro Guide: Scaling an LSP Key Account — Growing Small Clients into Key Accounts
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The Overlooked Key to Translator Productivity
Translators still spend as much as a third of their time interacting with external resources. Terminotix solves those oft-overlooked translation bottlenecks.
What It Takes to Get Hired as an In-House Translator at a Large Company
Large companies require translators to have core disciplinary knowledge, strong technical, intra- and interpersonal skills to remain competitive in the job market.
How Metadata Is Staging the Next Revolution in AI-Enabled Translation Workflows
In Q3 2021, AppTek will launch a machine translation system that can toggle between nuances of style, gender, domain, topic, length, dialect, context, and glossaries.
New Research Flips the Script on CAT Tools — Literally
November 2020 paper by University of Zurich and Lilt researchers measures how text presentation impacts translation quality via three tasks: copying, identifying errors, and revision.
Reader Polls: Freelancer Tests, Better CAT, Sales SEO, Back to Booth?
Should LSPs pay freelancers for taking tests? Have CAT tools and TMSs improved? How important is SEO to the lead funnel? And will interpreters ever return to their booths?
BeLazy Announces End-to-End Automation for Translation Packages
BeLazy’s latest release helps boost project manager productivity by 1000% when translation assignments are done via packages.
Traductions Serge Bélair Appoints New CEO; Strikes Deal With Private Equity Investor
New partnership allows TRSB to enter the M&A race; founder takes on strategic role as longtime VP of Business Development Mary Kazamias is named CEO.
Reader Polls: Rev Pay Cut, Shift to Hourly Rates, Edit Distance, Translation Regulations
LSPs moving toward hourly rates for linguists? Edit distance a viable metric long-term? Are regulations important to translation demand? Will Rev recover from bad press over transcriptionist pay cuts?
A Quick Primer on Edit-Distance, a Key Metric in Post-Editing Machine Translation
As the language industry transitions to an operating model where the first draft is mostly generated by machines, many are looking for ways to quantify linguists' value-add. Edit-distance can help.
Google to Shelve Translator Toolkit After Decade of Failing to Gain Traction
Mixed reactions from linguists and industry experts as search giant shelves its in-house translation productivity tool Translator Toolkit, which failed to gain real traction since launching in 2009.
Creator of Trados Joins Summa Linguae Board, Says CAT Tools Will Become Obsolete
Trados founder Jochen Hummel discusses the demise of the product category he helped create, what has delayed full NMT disruption, and what’s next for human translators.
The Most Important Trends in Translation Technology for 2018
Can machines become as good as humans in natural language? Are CAT tools getting far too complicated? Will users increasingly grow comfortable with sacrificing data privacy for personalized digital comfort? These issues are examined with bold quotes and predictions from the memoQ Trend Report 2018.
3 Reasons Why Neural Machine Translation is a Breakthrough
PhD Candidate and TextShuttle CTO Samuel Läubli presented a compelling case for neural machine translation during SlatorCon Zurich, outlining why neural is a breakthrough over predecessor technologies.
Reader Polls: Payment Terms, Virtual Remote Interpreting, Terminology
Slator readers on who is leading the world in language tech, when VRI will take over conference interpreting, how important terminology is to their productivity tool, and how fast they get paid.
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