Index 2009 & RD, 2010
About the MultiLingual 2010 Resource Directory and Editorial Index 2009
The Staff of MultiLingual
A new year, and new decade, offers an optimistically blank slate, particularly in the times of tightened belts and tightened budgets. The localization industry has never been affected quite the same way as many other sectors ...
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Index 2009 & RD, 2010
Real costs of quality software translations
Henk Boxma
One of the major criteria for selecting a language service provider (LSP) is the translation cost per word. This makes sense for the translation of a "flowing text" where the full context is available ...
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Index 2009 & RD, 2010
People-centric company management
Kevin Fountoukidis
The quarterback who just won the Super Bowl and the coach who just won the World Cup will often say in the post-game interviews, "It's all about the team ...
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January/February, 2010
Post Editing: Testing out the new
Katie Botkin
Happy 2010 to all of our readers! In celebration of the new year, MultiLingual has a few changes to officially announce. We're now offering machine translation on our website's news pages (from English into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian) ...
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January/February, 2010
Déjà Vu X
Ignacio Garcia & Vivian Stevenson
Over the past few years we have been witnessing the rapid evolution of translation productivity tools — the term translation memory (TM) being now somewhat insufficient to describe where the technology is heading. There is a move ...
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January/February, 2010
Off the Map: Geocultural testing, Part 1
Tom Edwards
I have often discussed the critical importance of performing geocultural testing on content intended for international markets. On many occasions in this column, I've provided numerous examples of what happens when such testing is not performed ...
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January/February, 2010
World Savvy: Vertical travels
John Freivalds
Whenever I travel around the world, I always learn a few words of the local language, know how to make an appropriate toast and learn how score is kept in whatever the local sport is — except cricket, which I still haven't figured out ...
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January/February, 2010
The Business Side: Innovation, rejection and overcoming pitfalls
Adam Asnes
We pay a great deal of attention to innovation and sing its praises, but actually the road to creation, improvement and acceptance is messy and full of pitfalls. Innovation is often hard to recognize and value at first. More often than not ...
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January/February, 2010
Perspectives: Pricing translators internationally
Maros Handzak
I used to work with translators from various countries on a daily basis, and I learned a lot about them. Being a translator is not only a profession; it is a mission with important responsibilities. Freelance translators have taken ...
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January/February, 2010
Best practices in localization testing
Libor Safar & Jiri Machala
Localization testing has become an indispensable component of just about every software localization endeavor. Just like localization per se, it has experienced major developments since it emerged as a recognized standalone testing type ...
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January/February, 2010
Five types of localization testing
Richard Sikes
In striving for the elusive goal of deliverable perfection, we traditionally think about tradeoffs in time, cost and quality. Missing in this equation is the notion of process, although process is the glue that ties all three together ...
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January/February, 2010
QA in translation: a process approach
Kathrin Rueda
In a rapidly expanding market driven by continued globalization, the translation industry faces difficult and ever-increasing challenges. Today, translation is no longer merely a tool to market and sell products abroad; for some industries ...
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January/February, 2010
Automating translation quality management
François Massion
In recent years the sharp competition for global market share, the widening of the European Union and the enforcement of regulations such as the Machinery Directive 98/37/EC have had a strong impact on the demand for translations ...
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January/February, 2010
Cloud computing around the world
David C. Wyld
We have seen revolutionary computing technologies come about roughly once each decade in the modern era of computing since around 1945, when computing came to mean computations performed by a machine, not by man. From the mainframe era ...
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January/February, 2010
Final sign-off responsibility for translation projects
George Witherington
Casual observers may get the impression that with improved quality, some translation service providers are ready to take on the full responsibility for published translations. However, this does not appear to herald any change in ...
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January/February, 2010
Takeaway: Learn a new language while you sleep!
Susan Remkus
It's easy to forget what your buyers and prospects are exposed to. From full-page ads in travel magazines and roadside assistance membership publications to kiosks in shopping malls, your potential clients and current buyers ...
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December, 2009
Post Editing: European: synonym for hip?
Katie Botkin
We, and by we I mean most of the United States and by extension the rest of the world, have a love affair with Europe. Not so long ago, I witnessed one British kid steal the hearts of several hundred rich southerners over two weeks of expensive outdoor fun in Colorado ...
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December, 2009
The Prodigal Tongue
Rachel Schaffer
Mark Abley must have a lot of frequent flyer miles accumulated. In gathering material for this book alone, he traveled from Singapore and Japan to India and England, interviewing natives and collecting language data along the way ...
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December, 2009
Managing Across Cultures
Ultan Ó Broin
Having reviewed several "culture" books for MultiLingual, I now wearily shortcut such assignments by establishing early on how much new information is brought to the debate by immediately looking up the index to determine the extent of references ...
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December, 2009
Off the Map: Geopolitical correctness
Tom Edwards
I have something to confess: this column's installment will be something of a rant. No, not some partisan political diatribe of any kind, but a bit of a rant about the perception of the motivation behind the localization and culturalization of content ...
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December, 2009
World Savvy: Which is it — the Baltics or the Balkans?
John Freivalds
I recently spoke to my friend Diana Vidina about her work in Latvia running AD VERBUM Ltd, a localization firm in the Baltics (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia), and then opening an office in Bulgaria in the Balkans (which includes ...
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December, 2009
The Business Side: Product development vs. user interface
Adam Asnes
A couple of months ago I posted a software development question to some friends of mine: if you had to choose between making real user interface (UI) improvements and bettering the quality of default results, which would you pick? ...
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December, 2009
Perspectives: Piedmontese, an endangered language
Gianni Davico
According to research by IRES (an independent public research institute), Piedmontese — the language of Piedmont, a region in the northwestern area of Italy — is spoken or at least well understood by over two million people ...
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December, 2009
Perspectives: Localizing for 'Europe' in unlikely places
Terena Bell
"Unique dialect, Texas German, taking last gasp." The headline for a May 13, 2007, article in the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal certainly grabbed my attention. As a scholar of all things Southern and of most things linguistic ...
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December, 2009
Implications of increasing Europe's trade with China
Rocío Txabarriaga
Is English still the language of business? There is no simple answer to this question, but there is also no doubt that China is investing more and more outside its borders, including the European continent. Companies and governments ...
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