Case Study

Optimizing software localization
Frank Lin & Boris Gurevich
Every company seems to want the utmost when it comes to developing and releasing a product. However, the constraints of the project management (PM) triangle — speed (time), cost (resource) and scope (quality) — tell us that ...

Leveraging TMs with metadata
David Filip
Few would argue with the observation that companies are increasingly waking up to the true value of their corporate assets and trying to make the best possible return on them. Translation assets are no exception ...

XML authoring cures localization headaches
Scott Bass
How do you predict whether a localization project will be a pleasure or pain? One of the best indicators is the quality of the content that is going to be translated. That's a central lesson we've learned ...

Creating a framework for Arabic language technology
Mohamed Attia, Bente Maegaard, Khalid Choukri & Olivier Hamon
Arabic, one of the six official languages of the UN, is the first official language of more than 300 million native speakers in 23 Arab states located in western Asia as well as northern and eastern Africa and is widely spread ...

Columns and Commentary

Off the Map: The 'sensitive' U.S.A.
Tom Edwards
In the course of my geocultural consulting, I see and hear intriguing things about various cultures, which is one of the reasons I love the work that I do. Along with that, I also witness how various people react to certain cultures ...

World Savvy: Code-sharing languages
John Freivalds
Lupiti, Galoshi par Tilti were Yiddish-Latvian words that my mother uttered meaning the rags and old shoes peddler is near. This peddler would go up and down streets shouting for housewives to bring out their stuff ...

The Business Side: The business why and how of simship
Adam Asnes
The subject of managing releases over worldwide markets can be a contentious one, with pros and cons on either side of business and development cases. The concept of simship is that if you are releasing your product to worldwide markets ...

Takeaway: Agency specialization
Daniel B. Harcz
I have been running my own translation company for 13 years. The array of languages my agency has offered its clients makes quite an interesting trajectory, but I have recently arrived at the decision to reduce the number ...

Reviews

Technology

Technological developments for African languages
Claire Ulrich
The recent FIFA World Cup in South Africa has had an unexpected side effect: participants across the globe encountered African languages for the first time via their television sets and computer screens ...