Last week, 100 attendees — largely owners and operators of language service providers (LSPs) — gathered in Phoenix, Arizona for the 11th annual ATA-TCD conference (that stands for American Translators Association, Translation Company Division).
Highlights of the show included presentations on sustaining high growth, trends in machine translation, technology planning, and quality standards, along with a […]

This week in Luxembourg nearly 200 conference delegates temporarily forgot about “Pop Idol, “American Idol,” and “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” as the European Commission (EC) heard and evaluated proposals for its newest translation technology idols. Representatives from universities, research centers, and commercial organizations were looking for a share of the 100 million euros that the […]

Journalists writing about machine translation always lean on the proposition that MT will one day put professional translators out of business. Just as likely, ubiquitous availability of “good enough” translation will do the opposite. Here is why.
In our localization maturity model, we posited a time in the future when advanced corporate and government users of language processes […]

SDL today announced an update to Trados Studio, a new edition for freelancers, and an open application programming interface (API) for Trados. The freelancer version and API respond to longstanding demands in the marketplace for lower-priced translation memory (TM) software and a more open global information management (GIM) ecosystem.