We will be holding a seminar on September 14, 2015 (Monday) titled "Points for Creating Easy-to-Understand and Easy-to-Understand Documents for Overseas and Reducing Translation Costs" (hosted by Japan Techno Center Co., Ltd.).
This is a course to learn from case studies the processes and points to eliminate problems and failures in creating documents for overseas use, and to apply them in practice.
Learn the key points for improving quality and reducing costs of overseas documents (manuals, user guides, technical specifications, marketing materials, promotional materials, support information on the web, etc.) and apply them to solve your company's current challenges!
Easy-to-understand and easy-to-understand points for creating overseas documents and reducing translation costs
~Approach to Achieving Improved Quality and Cost Reduction of Overseas Documentation through Learning from Failure Cases~
Event Details
- Date and Time
- September 14, 2015 (Monday) 10:30 - 17:30
- Location
- The Japan Techno Center Co., Ltd. Training Room
22nd Floor, Odakyu Dai-ichi Seimei Building, 7-1 Nishi-Shinjuku 2-chome, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo >>Access
- Target Audience
- ・Documents for overseas (manuals, user guides, technical specifications, marketing materials, promotional materials, support information on the web, etc.)
For those who create them
・For those who are having trouble with the quality of their overseas documents
For those who want to improve the quality
・For those who have challenges with the current process of creating overseas documents (outsourcing, management process, workflow)
・For those who want to reduce the cost of creating documents for overseas
・For those who create Japanese documents that will be translated for overseas
- Acquired Knowledge and Skills
- ・Workflow design for creating documents for overseas markets
Points for cost reduction and lead time reduction
・Guidelines for creating easy-to-understand and easy-to-understand documents for overseas markets
・How to create Japanese documents suitable for overseas expansion (English and multilingual translation)
・Points to consider when ordering translations to avoid being at the mercy of translation companies
・Effective tools for improving and maintaining the quality of documents for overseas markets
・Pros and cons of introducing machine translation and its points
- Program
- 1. Issues with Creating Documents for Overseas
(1) Case Study
~Common Examples of Failures in Creating Documents for Overseas~
(2) Considering the Challenges of Creating Documents for Overseas in Your Company
(3) What are the Key Points for Successful Document Creation for Overseas?
2. Workflow Design for Creating Documents for Overseas
(1) Considerations for Quality and Cost of Creating Documents for Overseas
(2) Setting Quality Standards to Aim For
a. Type of Document
b. Target Users
c. Time, Importance, Brand Image
(3) Key Points for Workflow Design to Reduce Costs and Shorten Delivery Time
(4) Effective Use of Tools
a. Utilizing Past Translation Assets with Translation Support Tools
b. Standardizing Quality with Glossaries and Style Guides
c. Visualizing Quality with Checklists
3. Creating Japanese documents suitable for English and multilingual translation
(1) What are Japanese documents suitable for English and multilingual translation?
a. Creation tools
b. Efficient data creation methods
c. Easy-to-read layout
(2) What are the characteristics of English and multilingual translation suitable sentences?
a. Concise sentences
b. Clear sentences
c. Easy-to-read sentences
d. Unambiguous sentences
(3) Workshop - Let's write sentences suitable for English and multilingual translation
(4) Points for cost reduction
4. Introduction of Machine Translation for Cost Reduction and Its Key Points
(1) Successful and Failed Cases of Introducing Machine Translation
(2) Key Points for Introducing Machine Translation
a. Documents Suitable for Machine Translation and Those That Are Not
b. Tips for Selecting Machine Translation Software
c. Effectiveness of Pre-editing and Post-editing
(3) Case of Cost Reduction through Machine Translation in Manufacturing Companies
5. Summary
(1) Consideration of improvement measures for current issues
(2) Q&A
Instructor Profile
Tokuda Ai
- ・As a machine translation consultant, provide consulting services for Japanese companies on machine translation implementation and process building.
- - Emphasizing the importance of the original text quality that affects multilingual translation, responsible for Japanese writing process, and also providing consulting for creating manuals suitable for machine translation.
- ・Responsible for machine translation related presentations outside the company
- - 23rd JTF Translation Festival (Japan Translation Federation)
- "Approaches to Machine Translation in Multilingual Environments: From the Perspectives of Evaluation and Process"
- - 2014 AAMT (Asia Pacific Machine Translation Association) Machine Translation Fair
- "Mastering Machine Translation ~ For Improved Quality and Productivity ~"
- - 2014 TAUS* Executive Forum in Tokyo 2014
- 「The Importance of Understanding the Strengths of Different MT Engines
- (with Pre-editing focus)」
- - 2014 TC Symposium 2014 Tokyo (hosted by Technical Communicator Association, a general incorporated association)
- "Master Machine Translation Smartly"
- - 2014 JTF (Japan Translation Federation) Translation Festival
- "Quality management innovation to create a new translation era ~ diverse needs,"
- Setting Translation Quality Standards and Quality Management Processes for Content
- - 2015 TAUS* Executive Forum in Tokyo 2015
- "The Potential of Utilizing Japanese MT Engines in Industrial Translation"
- *Translation Automation Users Society, MTrans Team
From the instructor
As domestic companies accelerate their overseas expansion, the demand for creating easy-to-understand, low-cost, and efficient documents for overseas use is increasing.
However, when creating documents for overseas use, we often hear the following concerns from many companies.
- "There are constant complaints from overseas about difficult-to-understand documentation."
- Despite having information posted on manuals, instruction manuals, and websites,
Inquiries to the call center are not decreasing.
- Translation, creation, and checking of documents for overseas use takes too much cost and time.
- Due to poor quality of Japanese documents, incorrect and unnatural translations occur.
It takes time and effort to check and correct.
It is important to not only add checks and introduce tools as a local approach, but also to build an optimal process that covers everything from Japanese document creation to English and multilingual translation in order to solve these issues.
In this course, we will use common failure examples in creating documents for overseas companies as material, and discuss the process and points to eliminate the feeling of "this is not what I expected" after creating documents.
In addition, we will also explain the introduction and key points of machine translation, which has been gaining attention in the translation of documents in the manufacturing industry recently.
We will share effective advice based on the knowledge gained from creating abundant overseas documents, which will help solve current issues.
If you wish to participate in the seminar, please apply from the website of the organizing company, The Japan Techno Center Co., Ltd.
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English and Multilingual Translation Services
Machine Translation (MT) Service
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