AETS CEO attends the annual conference of the Association of Language Company Owners (ALC) in Miami
22.5.10
 | AETS CEO, Liz Seymour, attended the ALC Annual Conferences in Miami. They present unique opportunities to meet with other language company owners to discuss best practices, management and sales approaches. |
| The 2010 conference was well-attended and topics discussed covered a wide spectrum. Dominating proceedings however, was the subject of how machine translation is having a rapidly increasing role in the industry. Human translators are still required for many kinds of specialist translation work, however more and more of them find themselves in the role of editors of translations which have first been through a machine translation process, drawing on huge translation memory databases. You probably wouldn’t trust the accuracy of a machine translation of, for example, your Last Will and Testament, but for many translation requirements a machine translation (perhaps with a minimal edit) produces an acceptable result faster and at a lower cost. The key message at this conference was that translation companies of the future will need to embrace and work with these changes. CEO Liz is chair of the advisory board for a large communications company, an accredited business mentor and a member of the Institute of Directors. To ensure she stays ahead of the play, Liz regularly attends international translation and localization conferences. |