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Software Developers and LSPs Enhance Machine Translation Capabilities
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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February 14, 2013
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In recent months many developers of machine translation (MT) technology and supporting tools have told us about new features that will increase the quality and usability of their products. New to the ranks are language service providers (LSPs) that are actively investing in production models employing MT. Here are some noteworthy additions, listed alphabetically
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New Year’s Resolutions for Global Businesses
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Posted by
Benjamin B. Sargent
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December 30, 2011
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Rather than list our predictions for 2012, we’ve prepared a set of resolutions that any director, manager, or vice president responsible for translation and localization can adopt without further ado.
“Get onto our CEO’s radar with globalization.” In fact, how about meeting directly with your CEO? Begin by reading
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New Year’s Resolutions for Language Service Providers
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
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December 29, 2011
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2012 is right around the corner. The economic picture remains fuzzy, but in an industry that grows consistently even in times of economic downturn, there is plenty to be optimistic about as we head into the new year. The problems of language service providers have typically not been a shortage of business – the challenges have related
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The “Un-cancelling” of the EC Translation Technology Tender
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Posted by
Benjamin B. Sargent
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August 11, 2011
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In 2010, the European Commission (EC) opened a tender for bids on computer-assisted translation (CAT) and translation memory (TM) tools to which a number of well-known industry firms responded. In July 2011, a “Corrigendum” was issued declaring the awarding procedure unsuccessful. The reason given? “None of the submitted tenders met
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Kilgray Launches TM Repository Product
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Posted by
Benjamin B. Sargent
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June 7, 2011
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Kilgray, the Hungary-based technology vendor responsible for MemoQ, has released a new product called TM Repository with functions for managing translation memory units and databases across multiple projects, vendors, and computer aided translation (CAT) tools. This application does not include its own translation environment. Rather, the system ingests
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Xerox Looks to the Crowd to Test-Drive Linguistic Tools and More
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Posted by
Rebecca Ray
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March 31, 2011
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When doing research for our recent reports on crowdsourced translation, we discovered that Xerox has opened some of its research initiatives and beta products to the public for test drives. It is currently showcasing two language-related tools on Open Xerox, its new innovation site launched in February.
The first is an Arabic morphological analyzer
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The Largest Translation Project…So Far
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
January 13, 2011
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Thailand celebrates National Children’s Day on the second Saturday of January. This year, to mark the occasion, Asia Online introduced its Thai-language wikipedia translation. We spoke with company CEO Dion Wiggins and vice president Kirti Vashee about the project.
In 2008, we wrote about Asia Online’s plans to increase the availability
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Amesto Heats Up the Norwegian Language Services Market
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
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December 13, 2010
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A foot of snow was due to fall on the morning we spoke with Lars Kleivan, CEO of Amesto Translations. But, with several important developments underway to kick off the new year, the cold weather was hardly a concern.
In the highly competitive and globalized market for translation services, suppliers often source translation wherever they believe
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New Online Tools Move Translation into the Cloud
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Posted by
Benjamin B. Sargent
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March 1, 2010
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While established players Lingotek, Lionbridge, Sajan, SDL, and Welocalize continue to make noise about crowd-in-the-cloud translation management, upstart entrepreneurs are jumping into the fray with innovative technologies modeling new approaches to crowd and cloud-based translation systems. Most are web-resident applications (metaphorically "in the
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TermWiki Lowers the Barrier to Terminology Management
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
January 14, 2010
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CSOFT announced TermWiki, a multilingual terminology management solution based on wiki technology. As a wiki, it is web-based, supports collaboration out of the box, and provides users with a familiar interface for managing a terminology database. The company hopes to overcome traditional objections to systematic term management.
Our research consistently
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Predictions for 2010: Globalization Technology, Services, and Business Models
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma, Benjamin B. Sargent, Nataly Kelly, Rocio Txabarriaga
on
December 9, 2009
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The winter solstice is drawing near in the northern hemisphere, so that means it's time for our annual predictions about the language industry. Here's what we think will happen in 2010, with sharing, centralization, consolidation, community, and diplomacy as the most important watchwords for the Linguistic New Year:
Big buyers of language services
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Sajan Births Cloud-based TMS -- and New Software Company
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Posted by
Benjamin B. Sargent
on
October 20, 2009
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On the heels of its GCMS 5.0 software release, Sajan today announced the hiving off of its software group. The new entity, Sajan Software Ltd, is based in Dublin Ireland.
First off, GCMS 5.0 is the latest version of Sajan's highly-rated translation management system (TMS), previously classed as a "house" solution but now available as an enterprise
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Lionbridge Restructures and Pumps Up Technology
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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April 10, 2009
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Last week, we met with Lionbridge CEO Rory Cowan, CFO Don Muir, and CSO Paula Shannon to discuss the company's announcement about restructuring, its strategy, and its technology plans. But first, how is 2009 shaping up? Cowan cited a Bain report that characterized the typically slow-to-get-going first quarter as doing nothing in January, some pick-up
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Every Term Matters, Especially When Times are Bad
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly, Renato S. Beninatto
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March 6, 2009
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No one is immune from an occasional linguistic faux pas. After all, everyone has sent out an email with a typo once in a while. It’s slightly more embarrassing when a language-related misstep is broadcast for the world to see, which is why we cringed upon reading about the goodwill gift that Secretary of State Clinton presented to Foreign Minister
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Nuance Raises Its Voice with Cash and IBM Patents
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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February 17, 2009
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In January, speech technology provider Nuance Communications announced that it received a US$175 million investment from private equity firm Warburg Pincus and that it would acquire patents from IBM, one of its major competitors in the speech recognition sector. Both the size of the investment and the technology transfer between rivals made these announcements
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Buyer Views on Technology Independence
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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November 12, 2008
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In late summer 2008, we asked translation buyers for their views on technology independence among their software and language vendors (read about LSP views here). Over half the 30-plus respondents hailed from North America; 35 percent were from Europe; the balance were scattered across that amorphous continent known as "Rest of World."
Our first
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O Innovative LSP, Where Art Thou?
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
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October 28, 2008
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In early September, we issued a call for participation to invite thousands of LSPs to participate in a new report that would profile some of the more creative and innovative suppliers. Typically, when we announce a new survey on anything from an acquisition to quarterly business confidence, we see hundreds of responses within a matter of hours. Six
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SDL Drops Another CMS Shoe
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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January 21, 2008
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Nearly nine months after SDL bought Tridion for its web content management technology, the U.K. company invested in -- but did not buy outright -- Trisoft. This Belgian firm develops content management solutions for technical communications. SDL did not make a public announcement of the investment, but Trisoft did alert its customers who naturally alerted
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Sun Buys MySQL Database
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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January 16, 2008
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This morning Sun Microsystems announced that it would buy MySQL, the Swedish database company that is the "M" in open source's LAMP -- Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl. It is also one of the few database systems that matter -- Microsoft's SQL Server, IBM's DB2, and Oracle are its major competitors. Sun will pay about US$800 million in cash for MySQL's
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Predictions for 2007: How Right Were We?
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
December 20, 2007
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Last December we stared into our crystal-ball-as-a-service software to predict what would happen in 2007. Here's how we did:
Translation automation technology and distribution morph. We predicted rapid product turns, innovated distribution, and new market models from smaller firms; increased use and consideration of statistical MT solutions;
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SDL CEO Mark Lancaster in the Hot Seat in Berlin
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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June 21, 2007
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SDL Mark Lancaster shared his views on the wisdom of developing and selling enterprise software for translation, his reason for buying Tridion and the impact that acquisition had on SDL's relationship with CMS suppliers, current and future pricing and business models, and SDL's luck in doing the right thing at the right time.
SDL's future: Technology
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