Archive for August, 2009

Open source (crowd)translation

Monday, August 31st, 2009

This initiative, Transifex, is really interesting for the translation of open-source software projects, which usually lack of documentation in several languages. According to hteir website, they are a common, central, upstream portal for translations of various projects. We built it for the majority of small-to-medium open source projects in the world, which would like to […]

Conferencia sobre Traducción Automática

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Los próximos 17 y 18 de Octubre se celebra en Barcelona (Hotel Catalonia Duques de Bergara, C/Bergara 11) la conferencia de Proz coorganizada con Milega SL, Traducción Automática: pasado, presente y futuro.
El primer día de conferencia, a primera hora, nuestro Director Ejecutivo, el Dr. Diego Bartolomé, realizará una charla sobre cómo aliarse para ganar […]

Survey on MT post-editing

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Rosana Wolochwianski, an English>Spanish Translator with 15 years’ experience in the industry, has contacted us to help her in a subjective study she is carrying out on the impact of Machine Translation on the translators’ community. For more details, you can look at her work.
Basically, she needs the response to the following questions, […]

Interpretación telefónica

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Telefonica ha lanzado el Servicio Intérprete, pero como lleva casi un día caída la web, se puede mirar la caché de Google. Todo indica que es un servicio ofrecido por Dualia, aunque no está claro en su web: no aparece esta platinum reference en su lista de clientes. Los intérpretes telefónicos parece que corren […]

The language makes the difference

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

We have had several deployments of our statistical machine translation (SMT) technology in the previous months, most of them providing accurate results for the objectives of our clients, but some of them required a higher effort because of different reasons. One of the most interesting ones is the language itself. When a document is written […]