from eMediaWire
"Iverson Language Associates, Inc., has been nominated for a 2005 ClientSide Excellence Award for its work in managing document translation. Client Side News, the publication presenting the award, is a monthly news magazine focused on the language and translation industry."
Friday, March 11, 2005
Young Translator Helps Interpreting the Written Experiences of Japanese Immigrants
from SFGrate.com
"Some people had large boxes full of diaries they called me to translate, " says Nicole, 17. "I told them I'd love to, but there's no way I could get through even half of that."
"Some people had large boxes full of diaries they called me to translate, " says Nicole, 17. "I told them I'd love to, but there's no way I could get through even half of that."
When Translations Leave for Cheaper Markets
from Business Week online
An article that deals with problems that are all too common for most of us, nowadays:
"When one market begins to dry up, try adding the value of expertise. For a couple of linguists hit hard by online outsourcing, going upmarket may be the only solution"
One answer (given by Chris Durban), is certainly interesting... I don't know how feasible it is, though, for most translators:
"The key in translation services is to segment, segment, segment. The problem with most translators is that they make themselves too small. They have stuck with 12 cents a word for far too long. The top of the market is 50 cents or 60 cents a word -- and it's empty! There is very little competition at that level."
Chris Durban, however, has more to say on this topic in his own column, The Bottom Line (certainly worth checking out, though "cum grano salis").
An article that deals with problems that are all too common for most of us, nowadays:
"When one market begins to dry up, try adding the value of expertise. For a couple of linguists hit hard by online outsourcing, going upmarket may be the only solution"
One answer (given by Chris Durban), is certainly interesting... I don't know how feasible it is, though, for most translators:
"The key in translation services is to segment, segment, segment. The problem with most translators is that they make themselves too small. They have stuck with 12 cents a word for far too long. The top of the market is 50 cents or 60 cents a word -- and it's empty! There is very little competition at that level."
Chris Durban, however, has more to say on this topic in his own column, The Bottom Line (certainly worth checking out, though "cum grano salis").
E-Z-MRP Seeks Spanish Translation & Distributor for Exclusive License Agreement
from MediaSyndicate
E-Z-MRP is an integrated manufacturing system that includes all the functions needed to control manufacturing operations.
It was designed to make it easy to add and support foreign languages. With the success of the Chinese translation project E-Z-MRP is seeking to add additional foreign languages to the system through cooperative ventures with distributors in foreign countries.
E-Z-MRP is an integrated manufacturing system that includes all the functions needed to control manufacturing operations.
It was designed to make it easy to add and support foreign languages. With the success of the Chinese translation project E-Z-MRP is seeking to add additional foreign languages to the system through cooperative ventures with distributors in foreign countries.
Thursday, March 10, 2005
"Tasking the Translator" conference
from Cornell Chronicle
Anne Carson, winner of the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, will be keynote speaker for a conference titled "Tasking the Translator," to be held March 11 and 12 at Cornell. The conference features artists and scholars from the United States and abroad, including a presentation by Barcelona-born multimedia artist Antoni Muntadas.
"Globalization produces rich new possibilities for linguistic innovation and experimentation, as well as threatening the continued existence of a wide array of linguistic and literary practices, translation is bound up with our modes of transmitting knowledge and the past, as well as our very ability, as global intellectuals, to address each other."
Anne Carson, winner of the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, will be keynote speaker for a conference titled "Tasking the Translator," to be held March 11 and 12 at Cornell. The conference features artists and scholars from the United States and abroad, including a presentation by Barcelona-born multimedia artist Antoni Muntadas.
"Globalization produces rich new possibilities for linguistic innovation and experimentation, as well as threatening the continued existence of a wide array of linguistic and literary practices, translation is bound up with our modes of transmitting knowledge and the past, as well as our very ability, as global intellectuals, to address each other."
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Translation Device for Emergency Zones
from Wired
"...the U.S. military is refining a handheld voice-translation device that will soon be used by police and emergency-room doctors back home."
"...the U.S. military is refining a handheld voice-translation device that will soon be used by police and emergency-room doctors back home."
Suit against translator rule is dismissed
from SignOnSanDiego.com
"A federal judge in San Diego dismissed a lawsuit yesterday that challenged a federal policy requiring hospitals and doctors to provide translators for patients who speak little English. [...] The rule applies to doctors and hospitals receiving federal funding."
"A federal judge in San Diego dismissed a lawsuit yesterday that challenged a federal policy requiring hospitals and doctors to provide translators for patients who speak little English. [...] The rule applies to doctors and hospitals receiving federal funding."
New Full-text G>E E>G MT Program
from Presse Portal
"To avoid the most obvious mistakes resulting from the incorrect translation of terms with several different meanings, the Full-Text Translator 5.0 has been equipped with subject areas to limit the possible choices right from the start."
Which, as far as I know, is standard on most other MT translation packages.
"To avoid the most obvious mistakes resulting from the incorrect translation of terms with several different meanings, the Full-Text Translator 5.0 has been equipped with subject areas to limit the possible choices right from the start."
Which, as far as I know, is standard on most other MT translation packages.
Monday, March 07, 2005
Lost in translation?
from the Kansas City Star (registration required)
Yet another public administration relying on automatic translation to provide multilingual information to non-English speakers.
"Translations done by computer are not always accurate..."
Which would imply that most of the time they are... or am I missing something?
Yet another public administration relying on automatic translation to provide multilingual information to non-English speakers.
"Translations done by computer are not always accurate..."
Which would imply that most of the time they are... or am I missing something?
The Dispiriting Experience of a Translator
from: Corriere della Sera
"Ora i casi sono due: o l'autore e l'editore si aspettano che io lo corregga e operi i tagli necessari, ma io non sono in grado di farlo..."
"Either the author or publisher expect that I correct and cut the text as necessary, but I cannot do that..."
How many times, as translators, we end up ranting against whomever is responsible for the (perceived?) poor quality of the text we are working on.
I wonder, though, how many times we look at the quality of our own efforts, instead.
It is always easier, I think, criticizing others, more difficult to see with an objective eye our own work.
"Ora i casi sono due: o l'autore e l'editore si aspettano che io lo corregga e operi i tagli necessari, ma io non sono in grado di farlo..."
"Either the author or publisher expect that I correct and cut the text as necessary, but I cannot do that..."
How many times, as translators, we end up ranting against whomever is responsible for the (perceived?) poor quality of the text we are working on.
I wonder, though, how many times we look at the quality of our own efforts, instead.
It is always easier, I think, criticizing others, more difficult to see with an objective eye our own work.
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