writing Archives - Isabella Massardo

Interview with Teodora Petkova

In April of this year, while teaching a course in terminology management, with my students we started talking about knowledge management, taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs

May 12, 2020 No Comments

Going Local: Learning from Hudson’s Bay’s Efforts at Expansion

When we think of localization, we think of content. As a matter of fact, content localization is the last stage of a long and arduous process that starts much earlier, with steps that go from planning, product development and marketing to content development. If all these steps are not carefully harmonized, it can lead to unfavourable results.

March 31, 2020 No Comments

How To Write And Localize Lay Summaries

This article was originally posted on the Wordbee blog. Wordbee are the makers of the popular translation management platform and CAT tool for translators. You

March 31, 2020 No Comments

Writing for Machine Translation

The quality of an MT engine raw output and the final results after post-editing depend on various factors, one of which is the quality of source content. For this reason, the pre-editing stage of a text is as important as the post-editing.

February 25, 2020 No Comments

Setting up your source files for translation

Writing for translation means first of all setting up the source text so that translation or localization can take place without a hitch.

What follows are a few attention points that will help you set up your source content and prepare it for translation and localization.

December 17, 2019 No Comments

#SmartReads 7/2018 – The Fall Issue

#SmartReads 7-2018 on the Language and Translation Industry At the beginning of September, I was invited to hold a workshop at the Translation Technology Summer School,

November 2, 2018 No Comments

SmartReads 6-2018: Post-Summer Issue

#SmartReads 6-2018 on the Translation Industry Let’s start by wishing Happy Birthday to Katherine Johnson (in the picture above) on her 100th birthday. She is the “human computer” who helped

November 2, 2018 No Comments

[#SmartReads 4-2018] Summer’s Back

#SmartReads 4-2018 on the Translation Industry. Now that summer is back, here are some articles and podcasts for you to enjoy while you’re at the

July 4, 2018 No Comments

[Interview] What Writers Can Learn from Watching MasterChef

Lisa Friedman is a well-known writer and writing instructor in the Netherlands. In 2003, she founded the Amsterdam Writing Workshops for writers of fiction and nonfiction.

September 13, 2017 No Comments

[Guest Post] Avoid Getting Lost in Translation With Emoticons

Although the internet and mobile technology have made it easier than ever for people throughout the globe to communicate with one another, the dependence on

July 17, 2017 No Comments

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