This week, a computer named Watson, built by IBM over a 4-year period, won the 3-day Jeopardy! contest against 2 champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. With the word “Think” displayed prominently behind the contestants in many natural languages of the world, I couldn’t help but think what kind of impact this invention will have on the translation localization industry.
Named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Watson is powered by a 2880-processor brain and runs algorithms based on Natural Language Processing (NLP). Briefly, NLP enables a computer to convert a human language into data that it can relate to. It accomplishes this by reducing letters, words, sounds or symbols … Read More
Are linguistic proofs getting on your nerves? In previous blogs, we discussed the 
Imagine you are tasked to organize people in different countries, operating in different time zones, with different cultures and languages, not reporting to you, to participate in what will be a very laborious task. In addition, these people are committed to doing other jobs that normally take up all their work time. Finally, it is very likely that you cannot offer them incremental pay!
If you think giving a presentation or a speech in front of an audience can be stressful, wait till you have to give one in a foreign language or in front of a foreign audience!
Often you hear around this time of the year from industry experts about what they see in their crystal ball for the following year. I decided this year to do it a bit differently and present you with 10 predictions on what will not happen. Here they are… 
Recently, TAUS published an article, 
If your company sells a product that contains a software component, here are some tips to consider when you perform software localization to penetrate your international markets:
Why a robust Translation Memory tool is important
In a previous blog, we wrote about the essential parts of a robust translation memory tool. Here we explain why it is important that these parts operate correctly and efficiently.
1. Accurate and comprehensive parsers. Although XML is making significant strides in becoming a standard output format for authoring systems, for website files and for user interface resource … Read More