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The Market for Lemons and the Signaling Problem

Paul Sulzberger interviews Luigi Muzii. This interview was originally published on Paul Sulzberger’s blog. What comes to mind when you think about used car salesmen? The words “sleazy”, “disreputable”, “untrustworthy” or “con man” perhaps? Of course, this assessment may be totally unfair to used car salesmen… But the market for translation has many similarities with [...]

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ELIA Networking Days Budapest

By: Manuele Vecchi This autumn I again attended the ELIA Networking Days, which were held in Budapest this time. The European Language Industry Association organises these events twice a year, each time in a different European city, and for nearly three seasons now the NDs have been the crucial moment for my training and marketing [...]

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Issue 4 – Business Model Innovation

Issue 4 (January, 2013) focuses on “Business Model Innovation in the GILT Industry.” A business model defines the key elements of [...]

Welcome

Welcome to “The Big Wave”, a quarterly multilingual journal specialising in language technology. “The Big Wave” consists of five sections: Technology [...]

Developing Requirements and Compensation Schemes for PEMT Jobs

PEMT PEMT expands in post-editing of machine translation, and usually refers to the process of checking machine translation output for [...]

TBW interviews Nataly Kelly, VP of Market Development at Smartling, Inc.

  In a recent post you wondered whether a new term for machine translation is necessary and advocated the term “Computer-Generated Translation” [...]

Trembling and Stumbling in the Rumble Seat

Peras imposuit Iuppiter nobis duas: propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit, alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem. If documentation is the [...]

Creative Pricing

 “A less mature customer is a gift” Anne-Marie Colliander Lind on creative pricing, interviewed by Konstantin Dranch just before her [...]

Interview with Aidan Collins, User Engagement Manager at KantanMT

Could you please start by telling us what KantanMT is? KantanMT is a cloud-based MT platform. It helps our clients [...]

A Long Road Ahead

Quality is the life vest of the translation industry: all players rely on the magical mystery word that instantly explain [...]