At RWS Moravia, we love keeping up with cutting-edge language research, especially with innovations related to machine translation. Maribel Rodríguez Molina, RWS Moravia Language Technology Development and Deployment Manager, sat down with Dimitar Shterionov, Assistant Professor at Tilburg University and former Assistant Professor at Dublin City University and ADAPT Centre collaborator, to discuss neural post-editing, […]
In the last few months in the UK, nationally collected statistics on coronavirus outbreaks have been made available locally. These data can identify recorded infections per street and even per apartment block in more densely populated areas. Track and Trace, which was previously handled nationally with mixed success, is now being partly devolved to local […]
The online economy has made it more important than ever for organizations to leverage digital technologies to meet rapidly evolving needs and challenges. Yet the process of digital transformation is complex, and successful implementation requires an organization-wide commitment to change. There is perhaps no one that knows this better than Jim DuBois, the former CIO […]
You’ve just chosen a new localization vendor and realized there are a lot of things to consider and set up before you can assign the first project. A successful onboarding process allows both sides to collect important information, define expectations and objectives, understand risks, establish efficient workflows and help all stakeholders get to know one […]
Building a great global brand requires more than merely translating marketing materials or product information into a local language. Rather, effective global brands collaborate with experienced transcreation teams. Transcreation—the process of going beyond translation to adapt branded marketing content for a specific market—requires highly specialized resources who employ a creative process that not only captures […]
India’s internet economy has been growing rapidly for the past few years and is becoming a hub of ecommerce activity. In fact, India is the fastest-growing ecommerce market in the world. By 2021, India’s ecommerce industry is projected to reach $84 billion. This market was only worth $38.5 billion in 2017. The internet economy at […]
I shouldn’t really have been surprised. On opening the box containing my latest mobile phone, the only documentation to be found was an almost wordless instruction sheet showing the basic parts of the phone. That was all. Not even a Quick Start Guide. Those of us who have worked in the language services industry for […]
It’s one thing to join a localization team and pick up the reigns of a smoothly running operation, but it’s another thing to build a program entirely from scratch for one of the top social media platforms in the world. That’s exactly what Francesca Di Marco did when she joined Pinterest.
Automation is on the rise. Taking the human element out of certain processes makes a lot of sense. You can increase productivity, reduce errors and have a more profitable business model. But you need to have a great deal of faith in complete end-to-end automation. Are you ready to get in your car and have […]
Here at RWS Moravia, we believe the entire industry can benefit if we participate in educating the localization professionals of the future. In fact, in addition to working for RWS Moravia, some of our employees are also professors who teach in the field of localization and translation—specifically, Jon Ritzdorf, Jan Grodecki and Pavel Soukenik. We […]
Technological innovations like voice-based digital assistants have changed the ways that users search for and interact with content. Search engines like Google have sought to adapt to these changes by upgrading their algorithms to produce more relevant and user-friendly search results. Google has achieved this with its recent unveiling of BERT.