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Implementation of a comprehensive competence model to reinforce the acquisition of the instrumental-professional competence

  By: Elena Alcalde Peñalver, Eugenia Arrés López, Antonio Luis Díaz García – University of Granada, Spain. One of the key factors for a translator to be a complete professional is to know how to combine her educational background and the professionalism to meet the translation market demands. Starting from this premise, this paper aims [...]

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ELIA Networking Days in Madrid

ELIA Networking Days in Madrid

By: Konstantin Dranch With barely over a hundred delegates, the European Language Industry Association events are sometimes overshadowed by more crowded gatherings. But size isn’t everything, indeed, one quickly realizes at ELIA ND. There is great value in the intense and motivating communication that only a smaller group can offer. “Kitchen talk” Unlike most conferences, [...]

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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 [...]