"Improving Translation Productivity" will be presented at the TC Symposium 2017 Tokyo.

July 12, 2017

"Improving Translation Productivity" will be presented at the TC Symposium 2017 Tokyo.

On Friday, August 24, 2017, at TC Symposium 2017 Tokyo

"Improving Translation Productivity from 3 Perspectives: Visualizing, Optimizing, and Automating Translation Quality and Processes" will be announced.

 

In the midst of technological innovations such as AI and work style reforms, efficiency and productivity improvement have become major challenges in the field of translation work.

However, many companies have taken temporary cost-cutting measures or simply implemented systems to automate without addressing the underlying issues with translation quality and processes.

To improve the efficiency of translation work and achieve true productivity, it is effective to review the quality and process of translation from three perspectives: "visualization, optimization, and automation," whether it is done internally or externally.

- Translation is outsourced to external vendors, making the quality and process a black box.

- Translation work is personalized, and quality and productivity vary depending on the person.

・Machine translation tools are not being utilized effectively

What should be done and how should we approach to solve these problems in translation work?

In this presentation, we will introduce specific approaches to improve translation quality and processes based on case studies of translation improvement in domestic companies, in order to increase productivity.

Event Details

Date and Time
  • August 24, 2017 (Friday) 10:15-11:15
Location
Tokyo Gakugei University Koganei Campus
Application Method

Instructor

Machine Translation Seminar_Tokuda

Tokuda Ai

  • ・Technical Writer/Localization Project Manager/Machine Translation Consultant with 10 years of experience
  • ・As a director, involved in the creation of overseas document projects from Japanese manual creation to English and multilingual deployment
  • ・As a machine translation consultant, we also offer consulting services for introducing machine translation and building processes for Japanese companies.
  • - Emphasizing the importance of the original text quality that affects multilingual translation, also responsible for Japanese writing process, and conducting consulting seminars on "how to write Japanese and English in an easy-to-translate manner and how to create manuals".
  • ・2013 JTF*1 Translation Festival "Approaches to Machine Translation in Multilingual Environments: Perspectives on Evaluation and Process"
  • ・2014 AAMT*2 Machine Translation Fair "Mastering Machine Translation for Improved Quality and Productivity"
  • ・2014 TAUS*3 "The Importance of Understanding the Strengths of Different MT Engines (with Pre-editing focus)"
  • ・2014 TC Symposium*4 "Mastering Machine Translation Smartly"
  • ・2014 JTF *1 Translation Festival "Quality Management Innovation for Creating a New Translation Era - Setting Translation Quality Standards and Quality Management Processes to Meet Diverse Needs and Content"
  • ・2015 TAUS*3 "The Potential of Utilizing Japanese MT Engines in Industrial Translation"
  • ・2015 Japan Techno Center "Points for Creating Easy-to-Understand and Easy-to-Understand Documents for Overseas and Reducing Translation Costs"
  • ・2015 JTF *1 Translation Festival "Challenging the Translation of the Next Future 'Topic-Oriented Era'! ~ Best Practices for Translating Topic Documents Revealed from DITA and CMS Implementation Cases ~"
  • ・2016 Japan Techno Center "How to Write and Create Easy-to-Translate Japanese Documents and Points for Improving Translation Quality and Reducing Costs"
  • ・2016 TC Symposium*4 "Using Machine Translation in Japanese-English Translation! ~Points for Utilizing Japanese-English Machine Translation from Case Studies~"
  • 　　*1 Japan Translation Federation
  • 　　*2 Asia Pacific Machine Translation Association
  • 　　*3 Translation Automation Users Society, Translation Automation Users Association
  • 　　*4 Organized by the Technical Communicators Association, a general incorporated foundation.


Yuriko Sawada

  • ・Japanese-English-Multilingual Translation Coordinator
  • ・As a Localization Specialist, involved in translation projects from Japanese to English and multilingual versions.
  • - Responsible for introducing machine translation and evaluating and verifying the quality of multiple engines, as well as exchanging information with engine vendors.
  • - Involved in standardizing English quality and creating style guides for corporations, as well as conducting research and verification of original texts that are easy to machine translate.
  • ・Regularly holds "Seminar for Mastering Machine Translation" organized by Human Science since 2014
  • ・2015 24th JTF (Japan Translation Federation) Translation Festival "Challenging the Translation of the Next Future 'Topic-Oriented Era'! ~ Best Practices for Translating Topic Documents Revealed from DITA and CMS Implementation Cases ~" Lecture
  • ・2016 TC Symposium "Machine Translation Can Be Used for Japanese-English Translation! ~Points for Utilizing Japanese-English Machine Translation from Case Studies~" Lecture

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