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Deus Ex Machina

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Wells, The Third Man Only [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

A Fair Rate for Post-editing

By: Alessandro Cattelan In 2012, post-editing accounted for around 30% of Translated.net’s turnover. We see machine translation post-editing as an [...]