TAUS 2.0 and the Game Changers in Localization, by Jaap van der Meer, director of TAUS
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TAUS is a nonprofit organization that aims to improve translation through innovation and automation. It provides online services, software, and industry knowledge to translation buyers, language service providers, individual translators, and government agencies. Key offerings include a Quality Dashboard for translation quality management, an Academy for online courses and best practices, and a Data Cloud for sharing translation data to improve machine translation. TAUS brings the industry together through conferences and forums to advance the translation industry.
TAUS 2.0 and the Game Changers in Localization, by Jaap van der Meer, director of TAUS
- 2. TAUS is a resource center for the global language and translation industries. Our mission is to enable better translation through innovation and automation. We envision translation as a standard feature, a utility, similar to the internet, electricity and water. Translation available in all languages to all people in the world will push the evolution of human civilization to a much higher level of understanding, education and discovery. We support all translation operators – translation buyers, language service providers, individual translators and government agencies – with a comprehensive suite of online services, software and knowledge that help them to grow and innovate their business. We extend the reach and growth of the translation industry through our execution with sharing translation data and quality evaluation metrics. TAUS Mission
- 3. Program Overview Translation quality management and benchmarking using industry-standard metrics. Knowledge bases with use cases and best practices; directories of technologies and post- editors; online training courses. The largest industry- shared repository of translation data. Get your insights, tools, metrics, benchmarking, data and knowledge from a neutral and independent industry organization.
- 4. Quality Dashboard Value proposition BenefitsFeatures Translation quality management with industry standard tools and metrics, fully integrated in the day-to-day translation environment with an open API. For translation buyers and providers and for translators. • Reduce costs of quality review • Get insights in translation quality, productivity and efficiency by translator, vendor, project, process, technology, content, language, time • … and being able to benchmark with industry • Leverage investments in QE tools and processes • Standardize QE processes across industry • Less friction and disputes • Increased satisfaction and flexibility • Content profiling • Productivity and efficiency measurement • Quality management and review • Industry standard DQF-MQM harmonized metric • Open-source API for the Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF) • Quality Dashboard and downloadable reports
- 5. Quality Dashboard Integrators “Microsoft Office International team is committed to the DQF model and approach and are actively partnering with TAUS to investigate how best to integrate TAUS Quality Dashboard API into our translation tool set.”
- 6. TAUS Academy Value proposition BenefitsFeatures Stay informed and educated with industry best practices and lessons learned from advanced users of technologies and innovative business models. For translation buyers and providers and for translators. • Knowledge bases: • Dynamic Quality Framework • Translation Automation • Data Management • Online courses for: • Quality Management • Post-editing • Moses • Directories of post-editors and technologies • Articles, reports and webinars • Easy and quick access to industry knowledge • Fast-track learning of new skills • Spread common terms and practices across company teams and supplier networks
- 8. Data Cloud Value proposition BenefitsFeatures Share, pool and leverage translation data to enable better (machine) translation. For translation buyers and providers and for translators, developers and researchers. • Earn pooling credits by uploading data (“Take Five”) • Improve the performance of MT engines • Manage translation data in a Private Vault • Largest industry-shared repository of translation data (more than 70 Billion words in 2,200 language pairs in August 2015) • Data upload and download • Private Vaults for closed user groups • Data Search • Industry standard TMX format • Solid legal framework established by 45 founding members
- 9. TAUS Data Founding Members
- 10. Events 2016 Annual Conference Portland, OR (USA) October 24-25 Executive Forum Tokyo (Japan) April 19-20 Industry Leaders Forum Dublin (Ireland) June 6-7 Executive Forum Beijing (China) April 25-26