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Join ProZ.com/TV for a FREE event October 1-3rd celebrating International Translation Day! 50+ hours of content, Chat, Live Q&A & more. Join 1,000's of linguists from around the globe as ProZ.com/TV celebrates International Translation Day.
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Tuesday October 1st, 2019
09:50 - 10:00 GMT
"Welcome & Introduction"
Presented by
Drew MacFadyen
Take a minute to review certificate time logging, using the sli.do Q&A interface & learn about the program, software sales & more from host Drew MacFadyen
10:00 - 11:00 GMT
"Your First 3 Years as a Freelance Translator: How to Set Yourself Up for Success"
Presented by
Paul Urwin
Getting started can be tough. How do you find clients? How can you convince people that you have experience when you don't? What should you do about CAT tools and online platforms? In this session, Paul discusses all of these points and more, helping you to design a plan that will help you to get out of the blocks quickly, and build a viable career as a freelance translator.
11:00 - 12:00 GMT
"How Translation has overcome the 'traduttore, traditore' syndrome over time"
Presented by
Constance Mbassi Manga
Looking at the evolution of the Art of translation over time using practical examples, we will discuss ways in which the understanding of what translation entails has evolved through history, and we will touch briefly on the latest trends and their benefits.
12:00 - 13:00 GMT
"Are robots about to take your interpreting work?"
Presented by
Jonathan Downie
The machines are coming for our interpreting work! We're all DOOMED! That's what we are told time and time again by big tech companies and startups alike. Is there any truth in this? After spending the best part of two years researching this topic for my upcoming book, this session will discuss what the state of machine interpreting actually is, where it's going and what that is likely to mean for interpreters in the near future.
13:00 - 14:00 GMT
"From translator to interpreter: Can it be done?"
Presented by
Judy Jenner
The world of translation and interpretation is changing, as all professions invariably do. Many linguists are considering broadening their base and offering new services, such as interpretation. While the two professions are very much related, interpreting is a separate skill. Can you add it? Should you? The speaker, who started out as a translator and also became an interpreter almost 10 years into her career, will share tricks and tricks and lessons learned along the way.
14:00 - 15:00 GMT
"Beginners guide to SDL Trados Studio 2019"
Presented by
Camille Avila
This webinar includes:
A brief introduction to the key translation resources when using SDL Trados Studio
A walk through of the Studio 2019 user interface
An introduction to some of the new user experience enhancements in Studio 2019
How to create and add a Translation Memory
How to create and add a Termbase
Getting started with AutoSuggest 2.0 and Machine translation (MT)
Saving your translated file
15:00 - 16:00 GMT
"ProZ*Pay"
Presented by
Mike Donlin
How freelancers get paid, and how to pay globally
16:00 - 17:00 GMT
"Quick Tools for Pros"
Presented by
John Di Rico
The latest version of Wordfast Pro (5.10) includes a major overhaul of Quick Tools, including several improvements and new tools. During this session we will briefly look at the new additions to Quick Tools and when you might want to use these new tools: Extract/Populate Uniques, Split/Merge TXLF, Swap Source and Target.
17:00 - 18:00 GMT
"Master your QA process"
Presented by
Dolores Guinazu
Have you ever encountered quality issues despite having run the Spell Check and other quality checks included in your CAT tools? Have you ever felt that some checks are time-consuming or impossible to do manually, but at the same time they are extremely important to ensure the best final quality of your translations? There are many stand-alone QA tools to boost the quality of our work. An overview of the international quality standards for translation services and the requirements will also be addressed.
18:00 - 19:00 GMT
"Magic Mistake Management"
Presented by
Karolien van Eck
In this session I want to go over how to prevent - and, if that fails, how to handle and solve - some recurring mistakes that can happen to translators and/or to freelance workers in general. With over 25 years of experience in the field of translations, and of mistakes (;-)) I think I might have some interesting tips for you!
19:00 - 20:00 GMT
"Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation for Low-Resource Languages and Domains"
Presented by
Yasmin Moslem
Let’s imagine this scenario. You have a new Machine Translation project, and you feel excited; however, you have realized that your training corpus is too small. Now, you see that if you use such limited corpus to train your NMT model, your Machine Translation engine will be very poor, with many out-of-vocabulary words and maybe unidiomatic translations. You might encounter such scenario for a low-resource language, domain, or even institution. Fortunately, Domain Adaptation can be a good solution.
During this session, we will explore Domain Adaptation techniques that can be used to improve Neural Machine Translation quality and help your MT engine observe terminology and vocabulary required for your current Machine Translation project
21:00 - 22:00 GMT
"Translators' role in the age of Artificial Intelligence (panel)"
Presented by
Anna Zaretskaya
In this panel we will be discussing how translators’ everyday life is changing with the increasing presence of machine translation and other technology. Today’s linguist professionals are more than just translators and proofreaders – they can become linguistic experts participating in AI development. The participants will include in-house and freelance linguists, as well as a member of TransPerfect vendor management team. We will discuss how the linguists’ experience and their approach to managing the industry changes, as well as the new types of tasks related to MT that they work on (and it is not only post-editing!). The audience will get an overview of how an ideal freelance linguist’s profile looks like in the age of AI.
22:00 - 08:00 GMT
"Day 1 Replay for Certificate Time Logging"
Presented by
Drew MacFadyen
For those that are unable to participate in the live event from 10:00-20:00 GMT, a rebroadcast of the entire day's sessions & content (without live Q&A) will be broadcast from 22:00 GMT to 8:00 AM GMT.
This will allow attendees to start certificate time logging and to earn a certificate while watching replays at a convenient time.
Please note there will be no Q&A. Attendees are welcome to reply/answer questions by text in the Q&A interface however there will be no staff/presenters answering questions.
Wednesday October 2nd, 2019
09:50 - 10:00 GMT
"Welcome & Introduction"
Presented by
Drew MacFadyen
Take a minute to review certificate time logging, using the sli.do Q&A interface & learn about the program, software sales & more from host Drew MacFadyen
10:00 - 11:00 GMT
"How to Deal with Complaints and Criticism in the Right Way"
Presented by
Paul Urwin
As you gain more and more experience, it is inevitable that you will receive some complaints, and potentially criticism from others. The question, how can you reduce the frequency and impact of such situations, and how should you deal with them? Paul discusses how to respond positively, explaining your position and at the same time cultivating relationships of understanding and continuity with your clients and partners.
11:00 - 12:00 GMT
"(Ambitious) beginners' luck"
Presented by
Monika Takacs
How and why I started to be a translator after beeing a full time financial employee, what were the first steps and where I think to have been lucky
12:00 - 13:00 GMT
"Human response to a changing industry"
Presented by
Jared Tabor
Machine translation. Artificial Intelligence. Automation. A world that continues to get smaller. Clients are getting bigger, and so is the source material "unit". It is now possible to access translation that is free, instantly available, and -- increasingly -- not bad.
All kinds of technological innovation has happened both in and out of the industry in recent years. This talk takes a look at some of these changes, and focuses on how freelance translators and interpreters are reacting and adapting to innovations in tech.
A version of this talk was originally given at the GALA 2019 Munich conference by Henry Dotterer and Jared Tabor. A full written version of the information prestented here is also available to paying ProZ.com members in the Industry reports section of the site.
13:00 - 14:00 GMT
"Simultaneous interpreting for beginners"
Presented by
Judy Jenner
This session has been designed for beginning interpreters who want to improve their interpreting skills in the simultaneous mode. The presenter, a federally court-certified Spanish interpreter in the U.S. and an adjunct professor of interpretation, will present strategies and resources that will make a difference in your skills. You will still have to do all the hard work yourself, though. This session is language-neutral and examples will be presented in English, so attendees must have English as one of their working languages. No previous experience is required.
14:00 - 15:00 GMT
"Managing all your invoicing and quoting needs within SDL Trados Studio Freelance using SDL Trados Studio Business Manager Lite"
Presented by
Paul Filkin
If you are new or looking to extend your knowledge in using custom file types in SDL Trados Studio projects, you will learn the basics in this practical session. Tom Imhof, language technology consultant at localix.biz, will guide you through:
Best practices on when and how you should use custom file types
How to create a custom file type in Studio using XML as an example
How to configure a bilingual Excel file and a custom text file
An introduction to the SDL AppStore's file filter apps which extend Studio's file type capabilities
15:00 - 16:00 GMT
"Building your highway into the translation market"
Presented by
Ramsés Cabrera Olivares
Translation students usually feel lost after they finish their degrees, especially when they are faced with the harsh conditions of the translation market. My aim is to teach you the basic plan to build your own “highway” into the job. With these tools, you will also be able to devise your own price strategies, take advantage of resources such as ProZ.com and deal with clients in a productive, harmonious way."
16:00 - 17:00 GMT
"Rita Pang Session"
Presented by
Rita Pang
17:00 - 18:00 GMT
"Machine learning for low-density languages"
Presented by
Sarah-Leah Pimentel
The latest developments in neural machine translation (NMT) mostly cater to widely-spoken languages that receive funding from large corporates like Google and Microsoft. This has widened the gap in the quality of Machine Translation (MT) and Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) technology available for low-density languages.
This has made it very difficult for translators working with these languages, who often find themselves under pressure to produce quality translations at the same pace and cost as languages with vast tech support. However, the lack of funding and interest currently available to low-density languages is an opportunity for linguists to develop customized technological solutions.
Developments in NMT are often language-agnostic and increasingly require smaller translation memories (TMs). These models can be applied to low-density languages and adapted to subject-specific content, as has been proven with indigenous North American languages. Some exciting Natural Language Processing (NLP) developments also allow engineers and linguists to work together to find solutions to specific language problems, such as tracking natural disasters from community radio broadcasts in remote African regions.
18:00 - 19:00 GMT
"Avoiding burnout: Ergonomic, psychological, and lifestyle tips for long-term success"
Presented by
John Fry
This presentation is about avoiding physical and psychological burnout to achieve long-term success in your freelance translation career. It starts by showing you how to establish a good ergonomic workstation, including the one input device -- a foot pedal -- that every translator needs but few have. Next, with good ergonomic practices under your belt (literally), you will learn some psychological and lifestyle techniques for avoiding burnout, including the "workstation popcorn" method popular with digital nomads.
22:00 - 08:00 GMT
"Day 2 Replay for Certificate Time Logging"
Presented by
Drew MacFadyen
For those that are unable to participate in the live event from 10:00-20:00 GMT, a rebroadcast of the entire day's sessions & content (without live Q&A) will be broadcast from 22:00 GMT to 8:00 AM GMT.
This will allow attendees to start certificate time logging and to earn a certificate while watching replays at a convenient time.
Please note there will be no Q&A. Attendees are welcome to reply/answer questions by text in the Q&A interface however there will be no staff/presenters answering questions.
Thursday October 3rd, 2019
09:50 - 10:00 GMT
"Welcome & Introduction"
Presented by
Drew MacFadyen
Take a minute to review certificate time logging, using the sli.do Q&A interface & learn about the program, software sales & more from host Drew MacFadyen
10:00 - 11:00 GMT
"Tips to Use Machine Translation Rewardingly"
Presented by
Claudia Brauer
Start using MT successfully and securely and/or improve your use of MT with CAT tools. TIPS:
Using NMT without CATs
Combining CATS with MT
EXAMPLES
CAT with TM + MT
CAT with MT only
NMT with no CAT
EXAMINATION OF:
Machine Translation (MT) possibilities
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) alternatives
CATs (Computer-Assisted Tools) and TMs (Translation memories) decisions
11:00 - 12:00 GMT
"Oh My Backup!"
Presented by
Carlos la Orden Tovar
Hardware and software solutions to keep your precious data
available, safe and confidential
As a modern translator, you rely on technology for most of your daily duties at work. No matter how careful, orderly and cautious you are: at any given time, you are just one click away from disaster.
Hardware failures, suboptimal installations, software bugs and crashes as well as the human factor, all sum up for a dangerous recipe where our valuable data —and our clients’— can be compromised, corrupted or lost forever.
And that is not good for business, believe me.
In this straight-to-the point, extremely actionable presentation we will identify the most common weak points in home office scenarios as far as data management is concerned, providing solutions to make sure that you never lose a single byte of data without spending a fortune in complex backup solutions.
We will also give concrete practical tips to keep your data safe at all times and shape a bulletproof B-plan to resume your work ASAP and minimize the damage in case everything —from persistent application crashes to fire all over the place— goes wrong.
12:00 - 13:00 GMT
"Bridging the Gap: How Translation Schools Can Produce Industry-Ready Translators"
Presented by
Luigi Benetton
Translation is both an area of academic study and a profession. Colleges do a good job teaching the theory. How well do they prepare students for the job market?
We want to present the perspective of translators who are working towards a Bachelors degree in Translation.
What is the ideal “practical” translation curriculum?
What limitations do colleges face in creating this curriculum?
How could the curriculum presented be improved?
What other obstacles are there to such improvement?
13:00 - 14:00 GMT
"CafeTran Session"
Presented by
Igor Kmitowski
14:00 - 15:00 GMT
"Serial Offenders - A practical workshop on Audio Visual Translation with Technology and Talent"
Presented by
Angela Starkmann
Audiovisual (AV) translation is booming like never before, and we only just start to understand the transfer of spoken language to written language, and its impact on our work and the translation industry. Amazingly, the translation business AV translations is very separate from all the other parts of our industry, and many technological standards like the use of translation memory tools, automated QA and terminology work are still lagging behind.
This workshop is for linguists, who already work in the industry, or plan to try their luck with translation for entertainment - showing, how AV translation looks like, how technology can be used, and how it is already used today. It is a very wide area and might raise more questions, but will hopefully be a starting point for future insights.
15:00 - 16:00 GMT
"Translation: Language, History, Theories and techniques"
Presented by
Mustafa Mahmoud
If you think translation is just being bilingual, this is not ture. Like every discipline, and maybe to your surprise, translation is based on a long history, many academic theories, and techniques, and is cohesively related to the nature of language. Stay tuned to our next discussion.
16:00 - 17:00 GMT
"Specialization as a Success Strategy for Translators"
Presented by
Enrique Cavalitto
General translation tends to become a commodity, a market where translators are selected mainly based on price. In order to access the markets where good service providers are sought after by the clients, and paid the rates they deserve, you should consider specializing.
Rather than marketing yourself as a general service provider who can translate every kind of document, in any field of expertise, this presentation will focus on the advantages of narrowing your offer to a limited range of specialized fields.
This is a winning strategy that should help you develop, over time, a set of good clients that will appreciate your expertise and will be aware that the work of an expert does not come cheap.
In this session, we will discuss:
Why specializing is a winning strategy, where its marketing and productivity benefits should outweight the cost of abandoning markets where you feel reasonably proficient.
How you should select your field of specialization, a key decision for your career that should take into account skills and well as passion.
Once a field was selected, how to develop your skills in that area to the point of becoming an expert.
And last but not least, how to market your services as a specialist in your selected area, in order to be recognized as such by clients and colleagues.
17:00 - 18:00 GMT
"Freelancer vs. Burnout. How to keep yourself from burning out, based on a true story of a freelance translator and interpreter."
Presented by
Anzhelika Kuznetsova
After a severe burnout, resulting in a three-year pause in my career, this is what I have found to be working for me. Now a traveling interpreter and a mom to a 4.5-year-old, I am a happy professional and as good as new. Having to learn these things the hard way, I decided to share my formula with fellow translators and interpreters to hopefully inspire someone to take better care of themselves.
Practice healthy diet, enough sleep & exercise
Commit wisely
Learn to say 'no' to clients
Set clear goals & reward yourself
Do what you love
Get a hobby
18:00 - 18:15 GMT
"Closing & Recap"
Presented by
Drew MacFadyen
Closing remarks, how to leave feedback, thanks, and goodbye.
22:00 - 08:00 GMT
"Day 3 Replay for Certificate Time Logging"
Presented by
Drew MacFadyen
For those that are unable to participate in the live event from 10:00-20:00 GMT, a rebroadcast of the entire day's sessions & content (without live Q&A) will be broadcast from 22:00 GMT to 8:00 AM GMT.
This will allow attendees to start certificate time logging and to earn a certificate while watching replays at a convenient time.
Please note there will be no Q&A. Attendees are welcome to reply/answer questions by text in the Q&A interface however there will be no staff/presenters answering questions.
To earn certificate participants must be logged in to ProZ.com, watching at https://www.proz.com/tv/ITD2019 and log their time using the certificate time logging feature.
