My presentation at the ASLIB Translating and the Computer 32 Conference in London. 19 November 2010

1. Managing Social Translation

2. 3,339
Text messages per month sent by
an average teenager in the US
source: Nielsen (www.nielsen.com)

3. 60
source: Nielsen (www.nielsen.com)
hours
permonthspentonline

4. source: www.newstatesman.com
1,2 Zeta-bytes
1,200,000,000,000,000,000,000
bytes

5. 75 Billion

7. 6,277 UPLOADS/MINUTE

8. source: Common Sense Advisory

9. The language service industry has
never been in higher demand than
today. People all over the world
become aware and used to the vital
role of translation and its ability to
make our lives easier. ‘..’ Translation
is one of the few industries that
shouldn’t fear any kind of recession.
”
“
source: Yuliya Kozachenko, Focus.com

12. Productivity

13. Efficiency

15. 40%
Increase in
productivity
source: Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology

16. Machine
Translation

20. Hybrid Translation

21. This document
needs
translation.
Hybrid
Urgent

22. ‫يحتاخ‬ ‫المستند‬ ‫هذا‬
‫ترجم‬ ‫.إلى‬

24. Components

25. Task Allocation & ManagementTask Allocation & Management

26. Quality &Quality &
ReputationReputation
ManagementManagement ‫يحتا‬ ‫المستند‬ ‫هذا‬‫ج‬
‫ترجم‬ ‫إلى‬‫ة‬ .

27. PortablePortable
ReputationReputation
ScoreScore

28. Tracking & InvoicingTracking & Invoicing

29. Payment ManagementPayment Management

30. Glossary &Glossary &
TranslationTranslation
MemoryMemory

31. Application Programming InterfacesApplication Programming Interfaces

32. news.meedan.net

33. yallah.qfi.org

34. pootle

35. The Road Ahead

38. www.meedan.net