Intro to Plain Language for Translators – presentation from FIT-congress

Posted by on Aug 25, 2011 in Business, Conference, Languages, Translation | 10 comments

During the FIT XIX World Congress held in San Francisco last week, I attended a very interesting presentation by Erin Lyons, called “The Simple Life – Using Plain and Controlled Language to Improve Continue reading the rest of this...

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Notes about the emerging role of Machine Translation Post Editing from FIT2011 presentation

Posted by on Aug 17, 2011 in Conference, Localization, Technology, Translation | 24 comments

One of the most discussed and attended events for translators during the FIT XIX World Congress were Rosana Wolochwianski’s presentation on Machine Translation Post Editing. Since I Continue reading the rest of this...

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Translation Market Trends – presentation from Common Sense Advisory at FIT2011

Posted by on Aug 12, 2011 in Business, Conference, Languages, Localization, Translation | 0 comments

One of my personal gems from the FIT XIX World Congress, is Nataly Kelly’s presentation about market trends in the translation industry. Nataly works for the Common Continue reading the rest of this...

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Recap from International Congress for Translators or FIT2011

Posted by on Aug 4, 2011 in Business, Conference, Languages, Translation | 4 comments

The International Congress for Translators is held every third year and this was the first year it was hosted in the US, in San Francisco, CA. The American Translators Continue reading the rest of this...

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