Language Technology Division

July 2010 Newsletter: Now Online

et — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:28:43 PDT

Dear LTD Member, The Language Technology Division’s July 2010 edition of Language Tech News is now available online. HIGHLIGHTS in this issue include: From the Administrator Annual Meeting Cloud Computing, Cloud Sourcing & Machine Translation The Beetext Flow Leadership Multilingual Reference Material The “X” Files Trados Tip Enjoy! Emily Tell Language Tech News Editor HOW TO DOWNLOAD: For a direct download of the LTD newsletter, click on http://tinyurl.com/246t8u3 [...]

From the Admin Desk: Don’t try this at home

mm — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:16:12 PDT

Probably you have. Leave all your electronic valuables to the risks of theft, damage, and other worldly disasters. Help can only be given to those who read the following article from our esteemed Webmaster Michael Wahlster. Michael had to add a minor correction to the well written piece which we will publish here. “As of version [...]

From the Admin Desk: Denver anyone?

mm — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:58:26 PDT

The other weekend I attended the ATA Board Meeting as they were in town. And one thing led to another. That is the question what we want to do this year at the LTD General Meeting, part of the annual ATA Conference? For those who attended last year in New York you will remember that [...]

From the Admin Desk: AMTA 2010 conference: Call for MT User Presentations

mm — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:07:11 PDT

Call for MT User Presentations: Commercial Users and Translators The AMTA is seeking case studies and user stories for the AMTA 2010 conference – October 31-November 5, Denver, Colorado, immediately following ATA conference. MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE PRODUCTION PIPELINE The ninth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2010) will be held at the [...]

From the Admin Desk: Editors & Writers wanted

mm — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:27:38 PDT

All hands on deck! We are looking for LTD members interested in and thinking about some volunteering opportunities in the LTD. We have something for You! Join our production team of editors, reviewers or fact checkers (yours to decide) in any upcoming LTD newsletter production cycle. Currently we use a publication model that really serves us [...]

The Quality of Relationship

mw — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:33:55 PDT

Interesting post in the TranslationGuyBlog about Jost Zetzsche’s presentation at the recent Translation Company Division conference in Phoenix. Jost [...] is the author of the Tool Kit, an online newsletter that is a must-read for any translator or language service provider concerned about the interface between translation technology and their paycheck.

Op-Ed Contributor: I, Translator

et — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:10:27 PDT

OPINION | March 21, 2010 Op-Ed Contributor: I, Translator By DAVID BELLOS http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21bellos.html?emc=eta1 Why Google Translate won’t put me out of a job.

Will we soon have speech-to-speech translation, a la “Star Trek’s” universal translator?

Naomi de Moraes — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:33:48 PDT

Well, Franz Josef Och, over at Google, things we will! See an interview with him by the Los Angeles Times here. A snippit: Is it just short step from here to real time, speech-to-speech translation, a la “Star Trek’s” universal translator? To really do the integrated speech-to-speech translation, where you can have a phone call with someone and it [...]

From the Admin Desk: LTD @ ATA Colorado 2010 Conference

mm — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:19:19 PST

The deadline for Conference Speaker Proposal Submissions is coming closer and we are still open for suggestions from our LTD membership. Here is what we are looking for: Distinguished Speaker(s) We need Experts, Heroes & Legends that have got really something great to say and contribute and that can be related to Language Technology. If you are [...]

Hibernation overload

mm — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:55:41 PST

Time flies and yesterday was just a posting away. Or so it seems. In reality we have been working on our first newsletter, encouraged members to participate in activities or come up with a conference proposal as the deadline looms over our minds. Start seeing new articles as they have passed the editorial process on [...]