In a 45 minutes online lecture (potential) translation clients (SME’s and other businesses) will get concise and accurate information about the services, language professionals can provide (translation, localisation, pre- and post-editing, language consultancy ...), the added value highly skilled translation and language professionals can bring to these products and the use of machine translation, in particular eTranslation.
Programme
Keynote speech by Paula Kager, President of the Dutch association for translators and interpreters (NGTV): ‘Products and services of the new generation translation and language professional; the added value of highly skilled professionals’
Presentation and demo on eTranslation, the machine translation engine of the European Commission, by Emma Hartkamp, DGT Field Office in The Hague, Netherlands
Testimonial by a company on its experiences with highly skilled translators
Pitch of two professional translators (NGTV) on the language services they offer and the human touch in translation
Q&A
The event will be moderated by Dr. Gys-Walt van Egdom (Universiteit Utrecht)
Number of places: unlimited
A recorded video will be available after the workshop, subtitled in English.