Created by French computer engineer, Jean-Paul Nerrière, Globish claims it is a natural subset of English, which uses a simplified grammar and a 1500 word vocabulary. Nerrière claims it is not a language, but rather common ground that non-native speakers of English can use to communicate among themselves in the context of international business.
The campaign of the Spanish Association of Translators, Copy-editors, and Interpreters (ASETRAD) is called #LosOtrosAutores. It was launched to celebrate the association’s participation in the Madrid Book Fair and highlighted the work of editorial translators.
The Guild of Public Translators of the City of Buenos Aires is organising a series of workshops on improving translation tools, to be held on 14 July.
The members of the European Union of Associations of Translation Companies (EUATC) – Hungary’s Association of Professional Language Providers (Proford), the Austrian Association of Translation Companies (AATC), the Association of Czech Translation Agencies (ACTA) and the Association of Translation Companies of Slovakia (ATC SK) – have created a brand-new language industry conference that will take place in Budapest on the 30/31 October: Meet Central Europe (MCE).
The NTIF was founded in 2011. Its original purpose was to serve as a natural meeting point for providers of language services in the region. Since then it has sparked more and more interest in the translation community and further afield.
Die 13. internationale EUATC-Konferenz „T-UPDATE on Management & Sales“ richtete sich an Entscheidungsträger der Übersetzungsindustrie, die ihre Dienstleistungen über die nationalen Märkte hinaus auf internationalen Märkten bekannt machen möchten.
Does anything about this translation of the Lord’s Prayer, the most well-known prayer in all of Christianity, strike you as odd?
The scene is a Translation Slam, so-called. Two translators translate the same short passage and discuss their versions with a moderator in front of an audience of other translators. “Slam” suggests violent struggle and eventual victory or defeat. In reality, it’s all very polite and even protective.
Following Amazon’s announcement of its own neural machine translation (NMT) offering, the company’s machine learning scientists published a paper on research repository Arxiv.org that details the inner workings of Sockeye, their open-source, sequence-to-sequence toolkit for NMT.
SMEs often wonder who they should employ to do translations for them.
Should you employ a translation company, or is it enough to just do an online search and get in touch with translators directly? When it comes to price, the decision seems obvious, but you should also ask yourself:
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