disruptive technology Archives

What Is Post-Editing? Here Are 3 Approaches

Post-editing of Machine Translation (PEMT) wasn’t born yesterday. On the contrary, it’s as old as machine translation (MT) itself. And although at the moment, we

september 20, 2018 Geen reacties

A Data-driven Approach to Translation Vendor Management

Have you ever asked yourselves how a translation vendor differs from a vendor in other industries? Let’s tackle this question from two different perspectives. Consider first the

juli 4, 2018 Geen reacties

[#SmartReads 3-2018] The second sneak preview

#SmartReads 3-2018 on the Translation Industry. The March issue of this newsletter contained a sneak preview about the Translation Technology Summer 2018. Here comes another announcement. Build

mei 11, 2018 Geen reacties

How to Survive Technological Hypes

This article was originally published on the WordBee Blog. Neural networks, neural machine translation, speech-to-speech technology, blockchain, translator implants in our brains, automated interpreting, mind reading

mei 11, 2018 Geen reacties

[#SmartReads 2-2018] What’s coming

Hello, Here it is: #SmartReads 2-2018 on the Translation Industry. I skipped the February newsletter because there are few interesting things in the pipeline. I am going

maart 27, 2018 Geen reacties

Best of Translation Fun

#SmartReads on the Translation Industry 1-2018. Downloads Galore During the Christmas break, I took some time to write a couple of documents. They were meant

januari 26, 2018 Geen reacties

[Newsletter] #SmartReads on the #Translation Industry – 2017

#SmartReads on the Translation Industry is een nieuwsbrief in het Engels met artikelen en nieuws over … Vertaaltechnologie Taal en communicatie Terminologie Lokalisatie … en andere

december 17, 2017 Geen reacties

Starting Up

I live in Amsterdam, the city that prides itself not only for its “live and let live” mentality and for having been a location for

december 13, 2017 Geen reacties

#TranslatorsTraining: A Trainer’s Point of View

Iulianna van der Lek is an academic researcher, teaching assistant and trainer at the KU Leuven (Belgium). She is part of the team for the SCATE Project

mei 14, 2017 Geen reacties

#TranslatorsTraining: A Recruiter’s Point of View

Last month I received some positive feedback after I published my interview with Nancy A. Locke about the great divide between translators’ training and the