Jaap van der Meer, Director, TAUS TAUS thought leadership on the evolving industry landscape.

1. TAUS USER CONFERENCE 2010
LANGUAGE BUSINESS INNOVATION
4 – 6 OCTOBER / PORTLAND (OR), USA
MONDAY 4 OCTOBER / 14.20
21st CENTURY TRANSLATION
Jaap van der Meer, TAUS

2. Translation in the 21st Century

3. January 1954

4. Tower of Babel
Divide & Unite
Language as Instinct
Translation is very difficult …

5. October 2004
Reality Check
… TAUS founded.

6. Let a Thousand MT Systems Bloom!
Effectiveness of Data
Profit from sharing
(“Pirate’s Dilemma”)

7. MT is here to stay
Translation as a Utility
… as a Human Right
Five years ahead …

8. Enterprises in 5 Years
Need a Language Strategy
not just reducing word rates
“Dual Linguaspheres”
Automate
Innovate
Collaborate

9. Technology in 5 Years
No Real Breakthroughs
Hybrid Systems
Targeted Correction
(communities, games)
Real-time Training

10. TMs in 5 Years
Cleaning
Semantic Clustering
Corpus Linguistics
Preserve Endangered Languages
Exciting new perspectives …

11. Profession in 5 Years
Choices
End to Repetitive Tasks
Productivity 5 to 10 Times Higher
Supplemented by Non-Professional Volunteers

12. Applications in 5 Years
Translation out of the Wall
Virtuous Circle
Spoken Translation

13. Industry in 5 Years
Machines
New Business Models
Shared Resources & Utilities
Growth
Open
(Collaborative)
?
Innovation comes from outside
Closed
(Competitive)
It’s all about the data
Helping the world communicating better …
Human & Machine

14. in 5 Years
Industry Think Tank
Open Translation Platforms
Language Business Innovation
Industry Collaboration
Translation Automation
www.translationautomation.com

15. in 5 Years
Industry Data Resources
Billions of Words
Translation Matching
TM Cleaning
Matching Scores
www.tausdata.org