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Aslib's TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 28 Conference
16-17 November 2006, Kensington, London
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NEWS: We are pleased to announce that Yves Champollion will be the keynote
speaker. The title of his session is:
Very Large Translation Memories: is the free model viable?
Building a set of very large translation memories supporting all language
combinations is a challenging project. The VLTM project aims at offering
translators a repository of TM in all languages, made available for free,
with a search-engine approach. The author will explore the technical,
entrepreneurial, and deontological aspects of this idealistic project,
discuss its feasibility, and present the current state reached by the
project.
Yves is a consultant working with governments and large accounts for
translation/localisation projects. He is also the developer and owner of
the Wordfast and PlusTools suite of CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation)
tools. This suite is popular among translation agencies and free-lance
translators, with over 10,000 licenses in use.
More news to be announced shortly.
There is still time to book on to this year's conference. Full details of
the conference, including the programme, can be found at
www.aslib.com/conferences
Contributors include:
Beverley White and Tim Swales,Canon Localisation Services
Robert Martin, Alchemy Software Development
Elina Lagoudaki, Imperial College
François Tardif, Customer Service - MultiCorpora Europe, Belgium
Anne Laugesen, Global Denmark, Denmark
Anja Ruetten, Freelance Conference Interpreter
Reinhard Schaler, University of Limerick
Liam Cronin, Microsoft
Charles Campbell, spanishbackoffice
Miriam Lee, Self-employed and VP Federation Internationale des Traducteurs,
FIT
Debbie Folaron, Concordia University
Christian Lieske, SAP AG
Stephen Armstrong, Dublin University
Marie-Jeanne Derouin, Langenscheidt
Andre Le Meur, Universite de Rennes 2
Gema Ramirez-Sanchez, Trasducens(DLSI, Universitat d'Alicant)
Luc Huygh, euroscript
Mihaela Vela, Saarland University
Uwe Muegge, Medtronic, Inc.
The conference is supported by: British Computer Society Natural Language
Translation Specialist Group, European Association for Machine Translation,
International Association for Machine Translation, the Institute of
Translation and Interpreting, the Institute of Linguists and the Institute
of Localisation Professionals. Sponsors: TILP and Alchemy Software
Development Ltd.
Special rates are offered to members of the supporting organisations and
those who work at academic institutions.
For more information, including the list of exhibitors, please do not
hesitate to contact me.
Nicole Adamides, ASLIB Training
The Holywell Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London, EC2A 4PS
Tel: 020 7613 3031 Fax: 020 7613 5080
www.aslib.com/training Email: training@aslib.com
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