As also pointed out in the TAUS Translators in the Algorithmic Age Report, the search for a better name that combines the many roles translators take on these days has been going ..
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Do you ever visit the kiosks at the shopping mall? Did you ever go kayaking? Do you eat yogurt? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, congratulations: you speak some ..
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“The language services and blockchain technology could be considered a match made in heaven,” says Peggy Peng, the founder of Singapore LIC (Language Information Communication) ..
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I thank Lane for his kind remarks about our 2014 debate (see Lane Greene's blog), and in particular about what I had said. I don’t dispute the factual claims he makes for now: the ..
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In 2014, I took part in a lively and enjoyable debate with an intellectual hero, Nick Ostler. Our topic was whether English or MT was the “language” of the future. As we were in ..
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Four years ago in June, 2014, TAUS held its Industry Leaders Forum at Clontarf outside Dublin in Ireland. The event’s highlight was a formal debate between Nicholas Ostler, a ..
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Well over a decade ago, the concept of “translation out of the wall” (TOOTW) was proposed by TAUS’ founder Jaap Van Der Meer in various presentations to the industry. His aim was ..
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In March 2013, TAUS organized their first Translation Quality Evaluation (QE) Summit in Dublin, Ireland, hosted by Microsoft. TAUS had been working on the development of the ..
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Today almost everyone seems to own some sort of an activity tracker which counts the steps taken, calories burnt and hours slept. The most dedicated users measure their ..
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As the industry is getting closer and closer to adopting the TAUS Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF) as a standard for evaluating translation productivity and quality, we’ve decided ..
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