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| Forum | Topic | Title | Text | Poster | Time |
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| Machine Translation (MT) | Machine translation: your experience with the various MT programmes? ("state of play") | Sole MT versus Convergence | The question of MT as a sole approach is actually
not the case...
MT can only be one component
within a greater convergence of numerous
approaches.
Technological progress Web 2.0 is
| James O'Reilly | Nov 22, 2008 |
| Translator resources | Blog about mobility and translation | Collaborative Mobile Smartphone Translating | [quote]Maria Paula Campagnari Bueno wrote:
Feel
free to make comments and provide here any more
information you have about mobility or topics you
would like to see
discussed.
Thank | James O'Reilly | Nov 11, 2008 |
| Subtitling | Benchmark Resource: SMIL for Subtitling - Ever heard of it? | | Wikipedia: SMIL
SMIL (pronounced /ˈsmaɪl/
"smile"), the Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language
for describing multimedia presentations. | James O'Reilly | Nov 6, 2008 |
| Translator resources | Collaborative Use of Wikis for Terminology, Style Guides and More | Wiki-Translation | Welcome to wiki-translation, a community dedicated
to discussing the impact of the wiki phenomenon on
the world of translation. This is a place where
people interested in translation using | James O'Reilly | Nov 3, 2008 |
| Internet for translators | Wikis in Plain English | | This video was made because wiki web sites are
easy to use, but hard to
describe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d
nL00TdmLY
Please note, why a Web 2.0 Wiki has
more advanta | James O'Reilly | Oct 16, 2008 |
| Poll Discussion | Poll: Will the Google Translation Center affect your business? | Will it affect my business? | As a disruptive technology under Convergence
conditions yes...
Creative Commons
License
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive
_technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technolo
| James O'Reilly | Sep 9, 2008 |
| Translator resources | Collaborative Use of Wikis for Terminology, Style Guides and More | Check the free public e-learning sessions for Wikis | From WizIQ, the most popular and free online
training
classroom:
http://www.wiziq.com/public/
This
free one for Wikis is coming
up:
http://www.wiziq.com/public/session.aspx?de | James O'Reilly | Sep 9, 2008 |
| Translator resources | Collaborative Use of Wikis for Terminology, Style Guides and More | Value-Add Business Opportunity: Linguistic Consulting using Wikis | Henry D was asking for case examples of
Collaborative Translation in the thread:
Paper
on "Collaborative Translation" by Renato Beninato
and Donald
DePalma
http://www.proz.com/foru | James O'Reilly | Sep 8, 2008 |
| Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | Verifying terminology during proofreading/editing | Verifying terminology during proofreading/editing | How about implementing this process within the
framework of a wiki...
Collaborative Use of
Wikis for Terminology, Abbreviation & Term Log
List, Style Guides,
Language Register,
Re | James O'Reilly | Aug 30, 2008 |
| CAT Tools Technical Help | The global TM I want... | Collaboratively Structureable Consensus | 1. If all the above applies, how does this come to
be?
TM Marketplace:
http://www.tmmarketplace.com/TMOwner.htm
Note
the reference to the article "Translation
Memories: The Disco | James O'Reilly | Aug 30, 2008 |
| Translator resources | Collaborative Use of Wikis for Terminology, Style Guides and More | | Collaborative Translation Wiki via Google
Sites
Google Trends: Wiki, Blog,
Translation
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wiki%2
C+blog%2C+translation&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort
=0
| James O'Reilly | Aug 29, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Paper on "Collaborative Translation" by Renato Beninato and Donald DePalma | Groupthink | Wikipedia:
Groupthink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupth
ink | James O'Reilly | Aug 29, 2008 |
| Speech recognition | Dragon Naturally SPeaking 10 (English, French & German) now available through ProZ.com | English Professional Version From Germany | I would prefer getting the English Pro version
from Germany.
As I have read in the next
thread, one license can accommodate German and
English
only by adding a new profile with a
s | James O'Reilly | Aug 26, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Paper on "Collaborative Translation" by Renato Beninato and Donald DePalma | Virtual Worlds | Translation in Second
Life
http://search.secondlife.com/client_search
.php?cof=FORID%253A11&q=translation&s=All&sa=Searc
h+The+SL
In answer to Henry's question above... | James O'Reilly | Aug 25, 2008 |
| Internet for translators | The Cloud | Check these directories for Web 2.0 cloud stuff | Collaborative Translation Toolbox 2.0
(under
Creative Commons License like Wikipedia, please
check Ning Terms of
Service)
http://collaborative-translation.ning.
com/forum
< | James O'Reilly | Aug 23, 2008 |
| Speech recognition | Dragon Naturally SPeaking 10 (English, French & German) now available through ProZ.com | Overview of Audio Transcription Technologies for Translation | Here is a blog compilation of audio transcription
technologies and methods that stretch and
interface into translation
processing:
http://e-i-consulting-translation.b
logspot.com/20 | James O'Reilly | Aug 23, 2008 |
| Speech recognition | Dragon Naturally SPeaking 10 (English, French & German) now available through ProZ.com | Dragon Product Matrix | Nice comparison of
features:
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaki
ng/resources/product-matrix.asp
I think ProZ
should also arrange purchasing opportunities for
the Professional | James O'Reilly | Aug 23, 2008 |
| Translation Project / Vendor Management | Client requires proofreading. The agency declines to arrange our talk | Proofreader Check List as MindMap | Make them aware of the following browser-based
mindmap, which addresses
the proofreading process
in best practice manner in accordance with
EN15038,
and make it a requirement for further | James O'Reilly | Aug 23, 2008 |
| German | Probeübersetzungen: wie viele Wörter? | Best Practice Reasons for No Sample Translation | Nice
compilation...
http://www.gala-global.org/GALAx
y-article-why_sample_translations_break_all_the_ru
les-8668.html | James O'Reilly | Aug 23, 2008 |
| Business issues | Translation test - How would you react? | Are test translations a waste of time? | Revealing Benchmark Reasons for No Sample
Translations...
In The Light Of These
Significant Reasons, It's Better To Offer
Linguistic Consulting Alternatively
A blog from
GALA Glob | James O'Reilly | Aug 22, 2008 |
| Business issues | What is the next best thing to Trados? | What is the next best thing to Trados? | Trados is based on fat-client Web 1.0
technology.
The next best thing is thin-client
Software As A Service Web 2.0 browser-based
technology.
It is also time to consider what is
h | James O'Reilly | Aug 20, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Paper on "Collaborative Translation" by Renato Beninato and Donald DePalma | The End of Old School Localization Thinking | From
TAUS...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4392144/The-E
nd-of-Old-School-Localization-Thinking | James O'Reilly | Aug 20, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Paper on "Collaborative Translation" by Renato Beninato and Donald DePalma | TranslateMedia | New collaborative
workflow
http://www.pr-inside.com/translatemedia-
s-clients-benefit-from-r760562.htm
Check the
video mentioned, it displays the new process
implemented.
Ask He | James O'Reilly | Aug 19, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Paper on "Collaborative Translation" by Renato Beninato and Donald DePalma | These people are doing it... | Blog Search: Collaborative
Translation
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogse
arch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=collaborative+translation&sa
=N&start=0 | James O'Reilly | Aug 14, 2008 |
| Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | MindMap: Proofreader Check List 2.0 | Language Register of the Proofreader versus Translator Language Register | One of the central contractual scope items of the
above mindmap is "language
register":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registe
r_(sociolinguistics)
1. How do you establish a
defini | James O'Reilly | Aug 12, 2008 |
| Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | MindMap: Proofreader Check List 2.0 | | In accordance with EN 15038... collaborative
browser-based
version
http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=41e9d
425ec624c0bb20494e1faa7dff4 | James O'Reilly | Aug 10, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Clients / large translation companies now talking about pooling linguistic data. Should we be there? | Power Shifts in Web-Based Translation Memory | This paper addresses some issues about TM
ownership:
"Web-based translation memory (TM)
is a recent and little-studied development that is
changing the way localisation projects are
| James O'Reilly | Aug 1, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Paper on "Collaborative Translation" by Renato Beninato and Donald DePalma | Common Sense Advisory Database | For the following search
terms:
Collaborative
http://www.commonsenseadv
isory.com/search/index.php?zoom_query=Collaborativ
e&zoom_per_page=10&zoom_cat[]=-1&zoom_and=0&zoom_s
ort=0
| James O'Reilly | Aug 1, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Paper on "Collaborative Translation" by Renato Beninato and Donald DePalma | Wordfast Web 2.0 Project | Wordfast redefines the industry by offering
everyone the possibility to set up translation
workgroups that share TM over the net. This
practice was until now complex and costly - it has
| James O'Reilly | Aug 1, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Clients / large translation companies now talking about pooling linguistic data. Should we be there? | Wordfast Web 2.0 Project | Some might want to check this out...
The Very
Large Translation Memory (VLTM) Project
The
VLTM project offers translators a set of Very
Large Translation Memories, accessible with | James O'Reilly | Aug 1, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Paper on "Collaborative Translation" by Renato Beninato and Donald DePalma | "Is anyone doing it?" Good Question | If I look at how Lionbridge etc. are promoting
their web-based, browser-based systems,
and I
see other open source, wiki, and crowd translation
projects emerging, e.g. Facebook etc.,
th | James O'Reilly | Aug 1, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Clients / large translation companies now talking about pooling linguistic data. Should we be there? | Web 3.0 Internet Evolution | The pooling of TMs is a Web 3.0 development... for
the Semantic Web...from 2010
on...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0
B
ut in order to understand this evolution, you need
to | James O'Reilly | Jul 31, 2008 |
| ProZ.com: Translator Coop | Option now available to 'endorse' ProZ.com professional guidelines from your profile | Preventive Quality Management for Translations | The following blog takes the excellent ProZ idea
further:
http://preventive-qm-translations.blog
spot.com/
| James O'Reilly | May 29, 2008 |
| German | (Un)Sicherheit in Microsoft Word | MetaChanger Freeware | http://www.tilti.com/new/en/index.php?id=2_metacha
nger | James O'Reilly | Mar 28, 2008 |
| German | Aktuelles zum Werkvertrag etc. | | Die IT Freiberufler haben sich mit rechtlichem Rat
besser ausgestattet:
Vertragsgestaltung:
Werkvertrag vs Dienstvertrag (Teil 1-3)
http://www.gulp.de/kb/lwo/vertrag/mainvertrag.
| James O'Reilly | Mar 20, 2008 |
| Business issues | Freelancers and EN 15038 compliance | Preparation Checklist for Translations in Accordance with EN-15038:2006 (EN) | http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9xxrf5_54fmnpcx
Translation Project Template
EN15038:2006
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9xxr
f5_79hr5d4z
[Edited at 2008-02-11
08:17] | James O'Reilly | Feb 11, 2008 |
| German | (Un)Sicherheit in Microsoft Word | Meta Data Tool | Via Wiki habe ich schönes Meta Data Tool
gefunden:
iDiscover (kostenlos, mit
Anmeldung)
http://www.document-metadata.com/
h
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_data#Document_met
a | James O'Reilly | Jan 10, 2008 |
| German | (Un)Sicherheit in Microsoft Word | Hintergrundprotokoll-Editor mit Dekodierung | [quote]tectranslate wrote:
Um das
"Hintergrundprotokoll" überhaupt im Detail sehen
zu können, muss man die Datei mit einem Editor
aufmachen, worauf der Normalnutzer m.E. überhaupt
| James O'Reilly | Jan 10, 2008 |
| German | (Un)Sicherheit in Microsoft Word | Metadaten im Hintergrundprotokol? | [quote]tectranslate wrote:
Also wir als Agentur
achten schon darauf, dass die Metadaten "sauber"
sind. Bevor die Dateien in den "Fertig"-Ordner des
Projekts gehen, wird über Datei--Eig | James O'Reilly | Jan 10, 2008 |
| German | (Un)Sicherheit in Microsoft Word | Vielen Dank | für die tiefblickende technische
Antworten...
Prozesssicht und Service-Level
Vereinbarung im Rahmen eines
Anforderungsmanagements
Dennoch scheint mir,
dass das Thema Datei-Metai | James O'Reilly | Jan 10, 2008 |
| German | (Un)Sicherheit in Microsoft Word | | Ich habe nachfolgendes in Wiki
gefunden:
Sicherheit in Microsoft
Word
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#
Sicherheit_in_Microsoft_Word
"Bei digitaler
Veröffentlichung | James O'Reilly | Jan 9, 2008 |
| Translator resources | Online Chinese and English Master List of Chinese Business Names | Alibaba | Check this one:
www.alibaba.com | James O'Reilly | Jan 8, 2008 |
| Business issues | Payment after 2 months of job delivery | Implement Risk Management | Don't forget to implement some risk management
procedures...
I try to keep things sorted using
Google Docs.
Information Sharing about the
Payment Behavior, the Organizational Capabil | James O'Reilly | Jan 7, 2008 |
| Business issues | Sample translations in profile | Use Google Docs | I have begun using Google Docs to archive and
present sample translations.
Sample Translation
Overview
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9xxrf5_3
45gk3mdx
Very nice, indeed... | James O'Reilly | Jan 7, 2008 |
| Business issues | Who provides the contract? Freelancer or agency? | Registration Protocol | I keep things sorted within my Registration
Protocol:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9xxrf
5_79hr5d4z
A client version is derived and
shared from this template using Google Docs
( | James O'Reilly | Jan 7, 2008 |
| Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | Proofreaders - sometimes they scare me | Managing risks and resources: a down-to-earth view of revision | Great article...
Managing risks and resources:
a down-to-earth view of revision
Tim Martin,
Directorate-General for Translation (European
Commission)
http://www.jostrans.org/issue08 | James O'Reilly | Dec 22, 2007 |
| Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | Proofreaders - sometimes they scare me | Revision and Review versus Proofreading from a Quality View | Chapters 5.4.3 and 5.4.4 of the quality
management standard EN-15038:2006 define the
conceptions of Revision and Review, as compared to
the term Proofreading in the chapters 2.6 and
5 | James O'Reilly | Dec 22, 2007 |
| Money matters | How do you collect an outstanding payment? | Information Sharing about Client Payment Behavior & Organizational Capability Maturity Level | I am compiling a document in this theme area in
order to comply with
EU Translation Service
Requirements 4.1 EN-15038:2006 (EN), and
some
risk management
considerations:
http://do | James O'Reilly | Dec 21, 2007 |
| Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | Proofreaders - sometimes they scare me | Onelook.com's definition of proofreading | A meta-search in Onelook.com also verifies the
"typesetter's definition" of the
term:
http://www.onelook.com/?w=proofread&ls=a
Actually, we should all be talking about Review
an | James O'Reilly | Dec 21, 2007 |
| Proofreading / Editing / Reviewing | Proofreaders - sometimes they scare me | EN-15038:2006's Definition of Proofreading | This what the European quality standard for
translations defines:
Proofreading: "Checking
of proofs before publishing"
Proofreading: "If
the service specifications include proofreadi | James O'Reilly | Dec 21, 2007 |
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