"Participating in the session on "Efficiency and Standardization of Translation Business" at TC Symposium Tokyo 2017."

July 12, 2017

"Participating in the session on "Efficiency and Standardization of Translation Business" at TC Symposium Tokyo 2017."

Mini session at TC Symposium 2017 Tokyo on August 24, 2017 (Friday)

"Improving Work Efficiency and Standardization in Business - Aiming for Solutions and Standardization in Translation Work" Our company's Tokuda will participate as a panelist.


■Purpose■

The wave of globalization continues to rise year by year.

Along with that, the translation work for documents has been steadily increasing year by year.

On the other hand, there are various challenges within the company such as responding to securing personnel, promoting in-house development, shortening delivery times, and reducing costs.

Amidst this, there is a demand for streamlining internal translation tasks, creating a sustainable workflow, and implementing PDCA to increase productivity in document translation.

We will explore from both the perspective of the front-line promoter and the consulting position, what approach should be taken to effectively link the utilization of in-house human resources and support tools, and the digitization of data assets to the productivity of translation.

 

■Point■

As a hint for those who are currently struggling with how to break away from personalized work and inherit data assets through standardization promotion, or for those who want to do something about it in the future, I would like to propose from both the manufacturer's perspective and the consultant's perspective towards solving challenges.

In discussions, we will propose ways to improve the current situation and set goals and methods (PDCA) to address the struggles and issues on the ground, as well as share the raw voices of those affected.

- 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) 14:00-15:00
Location
Tokyo Gakugei University Koganei Campus
Application Method

Panelist

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.


In addition, Mr. Kubota and Mr. Yabashi from Azbil Corporation will participate as coordinator and panelist, respectively.


Related Services

English Translation and Multilingual Translation