Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Translation

Ms. Lola Bendana, Director of Multi-Languages Corporation, and Mr. Alan Melby, Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University, just published a book together: "Almost Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Translation".

There are two parts : the first one is for everyone and "especially for those involved in requesting translation services" and the other one is especially for Translators and Project Managers.

This publication is freely available : click here

NEM - ETP - submission of papers

The NEM Summit 2012  - “Implementing Future Media Internet towards New Horizons” - Istanbul, Turkey; 16-18 October 2012 call for papers on the following topics : 

- New Digital Media Content – Generation, Transmission, and Consumption

- New Networked Media Experience

- New Connected Media Worlds

This would be a good opportunity to promote language technologies, in particular for the last two tracks. Deadline is 31 May 2012. 

The NEM Summit 2012 call of paper (.pdf)

More information : mm [ad] emfs.eu

Join the European Language Technology Community at the LT-Innovate Summit 2012

On 19 June 2012, Brussels will become a meeting point for all the Language Technology Community : members of LT-innovate, companies with innovative products or projects in LT, investors with interest in LT, corporate or institutional buyers of LT solutions and media representatives with interest in LT.

The LT-Innovate Summit 2012 will bring together all major players involved in Language Technology to network, discuss trends, strategies, innovation and collaboration opportunities.

The LT-Innovate Summit features :

• Keynote Speeches;
• Innovation Focus Sessions in which LT companies will demonstrate the potential for innovation in LT and how barriers to innovation can be overcome through joint action and partnering;
• Showcases in which companies will present their activities in front of an audience and a Jury of experts. The 10 best presentations will be selected to receive the LT-Innovate Award 2012. The Award is attributed based on a set of criteria such as business potential, team experience, product/technology merit, competitive position, investment or partnering interest, presentation and profile quality;
• Networking opportunities between LT stakeholders (vendors, buyers, investors, researchers, policy makers).

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Second Digital Agenda Assembly : online forum

The next Digital Agenda Assembly will feature a workshop on Data, and within this workshop a panel dedicated to the topic of accessing and exploiting data across languages. The Assembly consists of an online engagement space launched ahead of the event, 8 workshops on key Digital Agenda topics and a plenary session to report feedback on previous discussions and hold debates on the way forward. 

LT-innovate would strongly encourage you to register to the online forum and make sure that the LT community is part of the discussion.

The DAA discussion forum can be accessed here

More information about the full draft programme online.

Bitext joins LT-Innovate

Bitext develops software that makes it possible for machines to understand Natural Language, the language people use every day.

Bitext is focused on integrating Natural Language solutions into third-party applications with two purposes: first, enable these applications to understand users in their language (Natural Language interfaces); second, empower machines to analyze and exploit large information collections (text mining).

Current commercial uses include the search engine market (NaturalFinder, a plug-in that lets any search engine understand natural language), and CRM market (NaturalAssistant, a virtual assistant for customer support). Bitext also develops on-demand applications for business intelligence, e-mail rerouting, spam filtering, etc.

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LanguageTools joins LT-Innovate

LanguageTools was founded in Munich in 2008 to develop Linguistics, semantic search and web-mining solutions. It is a 100% privately owned and independent company with operations in Germany, UK and US. Since its founding Language Tools has experienced dynamic growth with about 8 full-time positions at this time. Language Tools is a technology-driven company combining linguistic expertise with novel data processing algorithms. Our vision is to provide the most accurate and in-depth analysis in milliseconds.

LanguageTools offers products and services with different levels of customization in the following areas:

•     Linguistica API
•     Trixie - Web Intelligence
•     Luna - The LT Search Suite
•     Linné - Semantic analysis and enrichment

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Xplanation joins LT-Innovate

Xplanation offers integrated translation solutions based on professional account and project management, advanced translation and workflow technology and a global network of translation partners. Xplanation was founded as a translation technology company in 1993. Today it is are a leading provider of translation services and complete translation solutions. Based in Leuven, Belgium, Xplanation is a dynamic growth company with offices in Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Austria, with more branches planned.

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First LT-Innovate Summit in Brussels on 19 June 2012

On 19 June 2012, Brussels will become a meeting point for LT-Innovate members and representatives from the Language Technology Industry to network, discuss needs, strategies, innovation opportunities and business trends.
The LT-Innovate Summit will bring together all major players involved in Language Technology (LT) such as policy makers, vendors and corporates, experts and investors, enhancing the visibility of the fragmented European LT landscape and establishing LT as a key enabling technology for Europe.

The LT-Innovate Summit features:

• Keynote Speeches of CEOs and EU decision-makers;
• Discussion sessions with topics related to the state and future of the LT industry in Europe, including strategies towards Horizon 2020;
• Innovation Catalyst Sessions in which LT value-chain stakeholders will demonstrate the potential for innovation in LT and how LT can become key enabling technologies for industrial competitiveness and social challenges;
• LT Innovate Awards ceremony showcasing innovative LT products and services;
• Networking opportunities between LT stakeholders (vendors, buyers, investors, research, policy makers).

Block this date in your agenda and visit our LT Innovate platform regularly for up-dates on the event.

Language Industry Web Platform (LIND-Web) holds Forum on 24 May in Brussels

The European Commission's DG Translation will host a forum for the EU language industry on 24 May 2012 to build upon the Language Industry Web Platform (LIND-Web) launch in 2010 and the development work carried out in 2011.

This forum aims at bringing together language industry stakeholders (i.e. SME's/multinationals requiring language services, language service providers, translator associations, language and translation departments of universities, …).

Anyone can follow the speeches and debates live via web streaming here. Forum videos will be available after the event.

Sign up to attend — before 30 April 2012
Programme (draft)

Workshop on Language Resources for Public Security Applications

The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) will be organised end May 2012 by ELRA with the support of a wide range of international associations and organisations. (Pre-conference Workshops: 21-22 May 2012,
Main Conference: 23-24-25 May 2012 and Post-conference Workshops: 26-27 May 2012).

The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones.

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