Sponsors' Workshops
Three of our sponsors are offering workshops to conference participants. Gold Sponsor workshops are one hour each. Silver Sponsor workshops are 30 minutes each.
Gold Sponsor – STAR
offers 3 one-hour workshops at TC43
see also, Confirmed Presentations, for STAR’s Leadership talk (by Diana Ballard)
STAR workshop 1 of 3
Teamwork in Language Management with CLM 2021 and WebEdit
Birgit Maria Hoppe
Language management requires more than ordinary teamwork, whether for companies or for language service providers: teams of people with different roles need to cover project management, translation, quality assurance and data processing with all the necessary human and linguistic resources. And while many different teams need to share the process environment, each group of clients, PMs or service providers should only see and access the role- and task-specific information of their own group.
With CLM, STAR has developed and established a corporate language management solution for all of these requirements. Easy to organize now different job types for different teams – without programming and directly from the GUI, using the toolbox of flexible components that fit every requirement and process.
Translators and editors can collaborate directly online and in real time in CLM WebEdit, with all team-specific linguistic resources – TM, terminology and QA settings – at their fingertips. CLM WebEdit enables PMs, translators, and client-side linguists to collaborate in real time – online, anytime, anywhere.
In this workshop, you will gain insights into how teams are organized in the STAR CLM platform, and learn about the opportunities that online collaboration opens up for you in translation and review projects.
Birgit M. Hoppe is certified process manager and graduate technical translator with intercultural sociolology endorsements. She started her >25 years in language technology as a translation manager and CAT trainer. Her commitment to optimization led her to language process design, lecturing, and her current position as Business Development Manager at STAR Group. As an experienced key account and project manager with a focus on customer-oriented and efficient processes, she has successfully mastered EU standards, complex migrations and the implementation of CLM landscapes in the entire field of corporate language management.
STAR workshop 2 of 3
Ask the right question and you’ll get the right answer – all about MT at STAR
Maren Ziani
Judith Klein
How can you make the best use of MT for your translations in the CAT tool STAR Transit?
What are the special features of STAR’s web-application STAR MT Translate?
How does STAR tackle the issue of correct terminology in MT output?
Our expert will answer these and many more questions about the MT technology and solutions at STAR.
Maren Ziani is a certified translator for Chinese and English. Her mother tongue is German. She has been with the STAR Group since 2005 and acted as branch manager for the STAR office in Beijing until 2018. During this time she gained not only profound knowledge of the Chinese language and culture, but also oft he Chinese translation industry.
Since she joined STAR‘s language technology department in Sindelfingen/Germany in 2018, she had the chance to learn more about the technical aspects of the industry and turn into an expert in support, training and consulting for STAR’s language technology tools and to focus on STAR’s MT solutions.
Judith Klein (MA Information Science) has over 20 years’ experience in language technology. She joined STAR Germany in 1999 where she works as an expert in support, training and consulting for STAR’s language technology tools. Her most recent interest lies in STAR’s MT technology. She also supports customer-specific migration projects. Before she came to STAR, she worked in the Language Technology department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken (Germany).
STAR workshop 3 of 3
Translating subtitles with STAR Transit
KerstinFroese
Judith Klein
In this workshop we answer the following questions:
What are the special challenges in translating subtitles?
How can subtitles be translated easily in the STAR Transit CAT tool?
How does the Transit editor support the translator in keeping the required length limit of the subtitle lines?
How is the video sequence made available synchronously with the subtitle text segments?
How can MT be used in STAR Transit to support the translation of subtitles?
Kerstin Froese, M. A., studied English Literature and Linguistics, American Studies and Romance Studies at Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, and at the University of Leeds. She has been a member of STAR Group since 2001. Since 2008 she has been working with the team Support, Training and Consulting. Kerstin specialises in software trainings and webinars.
Judith Klein (MA Information Science) has over 20 years’ experience in language technology. She joined STAR Germany in 1999 where she works as an expert in support, training and consulting for STAR’s language technology tools. Her most recent interest lies in STAR’s MT technology. She also supports customer-specific migration projects. Before she came to STAR, she worked in the Language Technology department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken (Germany).
Gold Sponsor – Terminotix
offers 3 one-hour workshops at TC43
all 3 workshops will be given by the same moderator, Jean-François Richard
see also, Confirmed Presentations, for Terminotix’ Leadership talk (by Jean-François Richard)
Jean-François Richard
1) Introducing the Terminotix plugin for Windows: A new production tool allowing to translate text where you are in Windows!
The Terminotix plugin for Windows is a powerful tool that lets you find and insert matches from LogiTerm and NMT sources (Systran, DeepL, ModernMT, TradooIT, Alexa AI, Microsoft Translator) as you work in any application, all at the touch of a button.
2) How to leverage your Adaptative NMT engine with low cost Terminotix products
As more and more products are now offering ways to improve terminology consistency by using your own terminology and translation memories, find out how LogiTerm, AlignFactory and SynchroTerm can help you in getting the most of your NMT solution.
3) What NMT has changed in Terminotix clients’ language services workflow
Language services are more than ever integrating NMT into their translation workflows. What does this mean for translators? How much does it affect the way they work?
Jean-François Richard
Having a background in automated productivity and in electronics, I initially started my career in 1985 as a Computer Aided Design (CAD) technician before devoting myself to the field of computer aided translation tools (CAT) in 1994. Since then, and through different experiences of work, I acquired expertise in translation memory systems, terminology extraction tools, terminology management, machine translation, full text, bitexts and project management systems.
In 1994, I founded BridgeTerm (now a Translation Management System) which acted as CAT broker. During my career and over the years, I developed and improved SynchroTerm, a bilingual terminology extraction tool allowing to feed terminology databases from translated documents.
In September 2006, Terminotix acquired SynchroTerm and I joined the team where I occupied the Sales Director position.
In April 2010, I acquired the company through a management buyout process and since then, I am the president of Terminotix. During the last two years, I have conducted research on generating automatically high quality alignments in any language pair in order to feed Neural Machine Translation engines, bilingual concordancers.
Early in 2020 and during the pandemic, I developed a bilingual website search engine called WeBiSearch available for free and for linguistic services. In Spring 2021, I released the Terminotix plugin for Windows allowing to translate from inside any application.
Silver Sponsor – RWS
offers 3 half-hour workshops at TC43
all 3 workshops will be given by the same moderator, Fleur Schut
see also, Confirmed Presentations, for RWS’ Leadership talk (by Daniel Brockmann)
Fleur Schut
1. What’s new in Trados Studio 2021 Service Release 2?
Join this session to discover what’s new in Trados Studio 2021 Service Release 2.
We will update you on the latest enhancements available in this service release and demo some of the new features including:
- Improved editing experience with enhanced support for Unicode 13 and emojis
- Built in support for Memsource file type (MXLIFF)
- New possibilities for working in the cloud including:
- Ability to save local projects and resources to the cloud, and access them from anywhere
- Significant improvements to the online editor
- Improved cloud compatibility whilst working in Trados Studio
- And lot’s more!
2. Centralize, collaborate and take control with Trados Live Team
Trados Live Team is the next generation cloud-based translation project management solution from RWS. Designed for translation teams of any size, Live Team works seamlessly with Trados Studio to streamline processes, reduce manual tasks and provide real-time access to translation projects and reporting.
Join Fleur’s session to discover how you can become more efficient and deliver high-quality projects faster and more cost-effectively with Trados Live Team. Through a simple demonstration of a typical translation process, Fleur will show how Trados Live Team can help you:
- Manage the complete translation workflow from beginning to end
- Maintain real-time visibility and control
- Automate processes to make savings
- Centralize and share translation resources
- Easily connect customers and systems to simplify the translation process
3. Extend the power of your Trados Software with the RWS AppStore
Every translation team has their own unique working style, their own processes, as well as a variety of different clients each stipulating their unique needs and requirements. Your CAT (computer-assisted translation) tool should reflect this.
You can personalise your Trados Studio environment to suit your unique way of working, increase your productivity and extend Studio’s capabilities with the RWS AppStore. Download apps to automate your translation, review and terminology processes, work with new file types, connect to third-party machine translation providers and more.
With over 300, mostly free, apps to choose from, it can sometimes be difficult to know where to start, so we have put together our top 4 productivity boosting apps that we think all translation teams should know about.
Fleur Schut has a university background in translation and started working for Trados as early as 1997. Although she has transitioned through many roles over the years, she currently holds the position of Business Consultant for the RWS Translation Productivity Division. As part of her role, Fleur works with LSP and Corporate customers both pre and post sales, providing training to customers to ensure they get the most out of their solutions. Over the years, Fleur has developed multiple skills and has built up a huge amount of knowledge in the sphere of language technologies.