TC Symposium (Kyoto) Lecture "Key Points for Future Manuals" and "Introduction and Process of Machine Translation" have ended with great success.

November 7, 2014

TC Symposium (Kyoto) Lecture "Key Points for Future Manuals" and "Introduction and Process of Machine Translation" have ended with great success.

The presentation at TC Symposium 2014 (sponsored by the Technical Communicators Association) held in Kyoto from October 15th (Wednesday) to October 17th (Friday) in 2014 has successfully concluded.


Human Science Co., Ltd. presented at two sessions: "Key Points for Future Manuals" and "Introduction and Process of Machine Translation."


"Key Points for Future Manuals" In this section, Technical Writer Yasuda presents "Two Essential Perspectives for Manual Evaluation".

A total of 63 manufacturers and production company manual staff participated, greatly exceeding the capacity of 30 people.


Participant Voices

・Perspective for using external perspective manual" Perspective to evaluate ・The process has been organized

・I enjoyed the discussion about Japanese sentences based on machine translation

・There are examples of Japanese that are prone to mistranslation and were helpful as a reference

・I understand the precautions when expanding overseas

・Felt the necessity of external perspective (user's perspective) and internal perspective (creator's perspective)


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"Introduction and Process of Machine Translation"In "Introduction and Process of Machine Translation", Honda, a Japanese-English and multilingual translation coordinator, presented "Basic Workflow and Points to Note for Machine Translation, and Content for Effect Verification by Machine Translation". 18 people involved in translation work for manufacturers and translation companies participated.


Participant Voices

・Understood the importance of pre-edit and post-edit

・The points were clearly organized and easy to understand, based on real examples.

・Pre-edit examples and explanation of verification results were helpful

・The workflow design was clearly indicated and it was good.


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