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A step beyond translation: training multi-skilled GILT specialists

A step beyond translation: training multi-skilled GILT specialists

By: Renate de la Paix, Université de Strasbourg, and Gianna Tarquini, Università di Bologna. The French version of this article can be downloaded here. Over the last three decades, thanks to favorable political and economic factors including the multilingual EU policy and the globalization of trade and communication, there has been a dramatic rise in the [...]

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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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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 [...]

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 [...]

Measure for Measure

My favorite quotation on quality comes from Peter Drucker: “Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier [...]