Fresh Freelancer Series 05: CAT Tools, Machine Translation and Crowd Sourcing – How to navigate the complexity?

Formats: Webinar presentations
Topics: Expand your business and advance in your career
Business of Translation and Interpreting
Grow your translation business

Course summary
Start time:Oct 7, 2011 16:00 GMT     Add to calendar

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Language:English
Summary:A navigator for freelancers in the domain of CAT Tools, Machine Translation and Crowdsourcing. Learn how these processes and trends are reshaping the playing field, strategies to apply this for your business advantage without getting lost into the forest of jargons and technical terminologies.
Description
The Course is a navigator for freelancers in the domain of CAT Tools, Machine Translation and Crowdsourcing. The core objective is to achieve business success without being lost in the maze of terms, jargons and debate. A Freelancer would get a non-technical, non-intimidating and customer-centric perspective and exposure to these terms and processes. You would also have a perspective on how these developments can have impact on your career as the developments tend to become dominat trends.
Target audience
New and Established Freelancers
Prerequisites
None
Program
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1. Introducing MT, CAT Tools and Crowdsourcing
2. The business drivers behind these developments.
2. Trends and the business drivers
3. How do I position myself ?
4. How to use these trends for my business advantage ?
5. How to be prepared for the future when some of these trends become dominant trends and industry standard ?
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For PC-based Users:

• Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000 (Linux is not supported)
• Required: Internet Explorer® 6.0 or newer, or Mozilla® Firefox® 3.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled) . If needed, download Java here.
• Internet Connection Required: Cable modem, DSL, or better recommended
• Recommended: Minimum of Pentium® class 1GHz CPU with 512 MB of RAM (2 GB of RAM for Windows Vista)

For Mac®-based Users:

• Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®), OS X 10.5 (Leopard®), OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard®)
• Required: Safari™ 3.0 or newer, Firefox® 2.0 or newer; (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)
• Internet Connection Required: Cable modem, DSL or better recommended
• Required: PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor, 512 MB of RAM or better

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• Required: Fast Internet connection (384 kbps or more recommended)
• Required: speakers or headset (USB headset recommended)
• NOT required: Microphone - attendees can communicate with the trainer through incorporated chat.

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Created by
Pritam Bhattacharyya    View feedback | View all courses
Bio: Pritam Bhattacharyya is essentially a Bengali/Sylheti/Assamese linguist with 11 years of experience. He is the Founder and Chief Wordsmith of an agency called Wordsmith Communication. which apart from language services in pan-Indic languages provides Creative Content and Print on Demand Services. He is editor of www.pentasect.com - a bilingual (English / Bengali) cultural monthly ezine on Greater Bengal. He had worked as a Telecom Engineer and later as a IP Network Manager in various cross-cultural Telecom teams worldwide. He holds his Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Masters in Communication Management from Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. Pritam lives and works in Calcutta, India his city by adoption. His b-log on translation and online business can be seen here at http://wordsmithofbengal.wordpress.com
General discussions on this training

Fresh Freelancer Series 05: CAT Tools, Machine Translation and Crowd Sourcing – How to navigate the complexity?
timothydee
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Local time: 05:43
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Very InformativeOct 8, 2011

The presenter knew what he was talking about and passed on his knowledge in a very effective manner. I see some comments below about the presenter's accent, occasional grammatical errors etc, but from what I saw his mistakes were few and far between. I was able to understand his English after a few seconds. People who focus on those minor flaws are just being picky. My rating here relates to his ability to pass information, not his language skills, which I still view as fairly impressive. In... See more
The presenter knew what he was talking about and passed on his knowledge in a very effective manner. I see some comments below about the presenter's accent, occasional grammatical errors etc, but from what I saw his mistakes were few and far between. I was able to understand his English after a few seconds. People who focus on those minor flaws are just being picky. My rating here relates to his ability to pass information, not his language skills, which I still view as fairly impressive. In short, I very much enjoyed the presentation and look forward to hearing more in the future.Collapse


 

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