Translation Industry News
Michigan: Multilingual marketing services in growing demand
Michigan, USA (Michigan): Multilingual marketing services are in growing demand as the world flattens and more Michigan companies export goods and services. Translation businesses say they are thriving despite fierce competition. "It's a good business these days with everything going global," explains Lori Ann Elzerman, founder of Expert Language Services in Rochester Hills. "With the slowdown of the U.S. economy, companies are trying to sell their products abroad."
For more information, please visit:
blog.mlive.com/oak_business_review/2008/05/speaking_the_many_languages_of.html
Exciting New Results in Statistical and Hybrid Machine Translation
Gatineau, Quebec (CRTL-LTRC): We present our latest research results on the use of the PORTAGE statistical machine translation (SMT) technology, both on its own and in combination with more traditional rule-based machine translation (RBMT) systems. More specifically, we examine three different sets of results that all point in a highly practical direction in the support of translation tasks:
For more information, please visit:
www.crtl-ltrc.ca/index_e.htm
Spotlight continues on L-3, Titan
New York, USA (Huffington Post): Not only is L-3 the parent company of Titan ? the company that provided the translators at Abu Ghraib prison ? but they have also suffered more casualties than any other civilian contractor. 280 L-3/Titan employees have already died. According to a new report from CorpWatch, L-3/Titan employees are "dying at a rate that is far greater than that of the U.S. military itself." That is because L-3 employees face daily threats of assassination for collaborating with our military. Even worse, L-3 doesn't provide employees with proper training or medical care.
For more information, please visit:
www.huffingtonpost.com/zp-heller/the-iraq-war-profiteer-no_b_100370.html
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