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Four LSPs Discuss Academic PartnershipsTranslatel, Dragoman, Arabize, Tilde

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Almost 2 decades of internships, educational

problems investigations and more

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Mission:Help Academia in Ukrainewith training technological competences

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universities out of almost 100

in Ukraine had CAT-courses

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universities joined CAT for Grad

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• Free academic licenses from 7 leading CAT producers

• Methodological, technical and legal back up

• Free training courses from CAT producers

• Free certification from CAT producers

• Free methodological materials

• On-demand consultations with CAT producers

• Consultations with other universities that are participating

Advantages for participating:

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Mission: learnworld's translation schools' best practices

Objectives:

• Discover and describe world

translation schools peculiarities

• Generate a platform for

discussion of translation training

problems

• Create an innovative resource for

the translators’ professional

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Takeaways

• Evaluate the current state of the profession in your country,

determine the gaps.

• Avoid dispersing educational efforts in the company's day-

to-day activity. Minimum input to maximum effect.

• Сonsider the level of involvement.

• Find a reliable partner. Develop a shared vision that clearly

identifies the purpose and goals.

• Facilitate communication. Create a shared platform for the

exchange of ideas and information.

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GALA PRESENTATION

2010 - 2017 Dragoman Istanbul

LSP – Industry Partnership

Ideas, practises and barriers

ÜMİT ÖZAYDIN,

DRAGOMAN & YASAR UNIVERSITY


Washers and Cars


Ideas & Practises

Short term ideas

Giving a seminar

Accepting interns for a few weeks

Publishing a blog post

Publishing a video

Engaging in social media discussions


Ideas & Practises

Long term ideas

Curriculum partnership

Teaching at a university

Long term internship

Building a knowledge base

Creating your own training program


Overcoming Barriers

Do not underestimate training & partnership

Communicate yourself clearly

Share goals, requirements, time frame

Clarify payment, benefits, insurance, etc.

BE CLEAR AND STRUCTURED


Overcoming Barriers

Do not assume academia has been waiting for you

Academics are busier than you think

University entry exams do not qualify translators

Students may have other plans

PARTNER WITH AN ASSOCIATION

Overcoming Barriers


Do not assume your staff are natural trainers

Translators & editors are usually intravert

Train your trainers


Overcoming Barriers

People forget & neglect & omit & overwrite

Build your knowledge hub

Create reminder sheets

Publish videos & training posts

RECYCLE YOUR LEARNING CONTENT

LSP Case Study

MANALAMINCEO, Arabize

University Program

• Started 2013 with major faculties of Languages

• Awareness sessions about localization and translation technology

• MOUs with 8 Universities

• Summer internships created more awareness / calibres

• 2015 - Our first paid course in Alexandria University

• 2016 - Courses in Private Universities

• Sponsoring events and participating in employment fairs

Cooperation between

Education & Industryto train young professionals

The case of Tilde

tilde.com

• 130 employees

• 3 Baltic states

• R&I excellence

• Over 25 years

• Terminology

• Machine Translation

• Speech Processing

Education & Industry: win-win

• Education• Gain: Support with up-to-date language technologies

• Provide: Knowledge transfer in translation, interpreting, communication and other relevant studies

• Industry• Gain: Competence and quality

• Provide: Technology transfer via innovative products and services to train professionals of the future: tech-savvy and ready for the market

Our power is in together!• Terminology

• e.g. the English-Latvian electronic dictionary

• Machine Translation• e.g. new models for processing big volumes of texts for

machine translation

Knowledge Skills Technology

Tilde Terminology• Largest term base

• Consolidated interface

• Management facilities

• Secure cloud storage

• Integration with CAT&MT

• linguistic excellence

• Various formats

• Language and domain coverage

Tilde Machine Translation• Hosting options

• Large data library

• Integration with CAT

• Linguistic excellence

• Terminology integration

• Various formats

• Tag processing

• Dynamic Learning

Online Terminology Services

Translation

Training

SMT System Training and adaptation

Online Translation Service

Input Text for Translation

Parallel corpus

Monolingual corpus

Bilingual term collections

Monolingual Term

Extraction

Trained SMT

Model

Bilingual Term

Extraction

Translated Text

Technology integration

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Questions? Oleksandr: [email protected]

Ümit: [email protected]

Manal: [email protected]

Tatjana: [email protected]

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Questions? Oleksandr: [email protected]

Ümit: [email protected]

Manal: [email protected]

Tatjana: [email protected]





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