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Workshop on Quality Standards, Terminology Management, Professional practices, CAT Tools
On sidelines of National Conference of India held in New Delhi on April 17-18, 2009, Allied Modlingua Services Pvt. Ltd (An ISO 9001:2000 certified company) successfully conducted Powwow on April 16, 2009 at New Delhi. This powwow formed parto f the pre-conference workshop dedicated to Quality Standards, Terminology Management, Professional Practices and CAT Tools, hosted by Instituto Cervantes, New Delhi. The workshop was inaugurated by His Excellency Miguel Angel Ramirez Ramos, Ambassador of Cuba in India who emphasized the need to create awareness about quality standards, terminology management, professional practices and CAT tools in translation. The Cuban Ambassador also took the opportunity to explain about the initiatives of Cuban government in promoting language and translation activities in his country and expressed his desire to intensify co-operation with India in these areas in order to further open gateways to cultural exchange between both countries.
The workshop that witnessed presence of more than 150 participants including 35 + Proz members was chaired by Ms. Ana Isabel Reguillo, Academic Head of Instituto Cervantes in New Delhi who explained about the mission of Instituto Cervantes in promoting quality education in Spanish language and culture studies in India and throughout the globe. Further, the workshop included some highly interactive sessions by experts of international repute including Prof. Roger T. Bell (University of Westminster, UK) who actually brought the otherwise hot and dull afternoon alive through his sessions on Professional Practices in Translation. The sessions were then continued by experts from Austria that included Dr. Gabriele Sauberer (TERMNET), who shared her knowledge on Terminology Management and Quality Standards in Translation; Dr. Peter Jonas (LICS) explained in detail about the EN 15038 standard; Ms. Anja Drame (INFOTERM) dealt with standardization in terminology. The workshop ended with an exclusive session on CAT tools by Conference Convenor Mr. Ravi Kumar who emphasized the need to integrate with the translation technology. This was followed by a demonstration of a newly developed CAT tool called "Heartsome": a new generation cost effective CAT tool that fully supports Indian languages.
The Presentation Papers can be downloaded by clicking on the hypelinked paper titles below from the website of Termnet
http://www.termnet.org/downloads/english/events/itaindia_workshop/RB_Situations_Issues_and_Responses.pdf - Professional Practices in Translation - Professor Roger. T. Bell
http://www.termnet.org/downloads/english/events/itaindia_workshop/AD_Terminology_standardization_India.pdf - Standardization at the Service of Diversity, Terminology and other language and content resources - Ms. Anja Drame
http://www.termnet.org/downloads/english/events/itaindia_workshop/GS_Terminology_Management_in_Translation.pdf - Terminology Management in Translation - Dr. Gabriele Sauberer
http://www.termnet.org/downloads/english/events/itaindia_workshop/PJ_EN15038_India.pdf - Quality Standards and Certification for Translation Service Providers (TSPs) EN 15038 - Dr. Peter Jonas
http://www.termnet.org/downloads/english/events/itaindia_workshop/PJ_EN15038_India.pdf - Introduction to CAT Tools - Mr. Ravi Kumar
Courtesy
Ravi Kumar " Workshop Organizer and Convenor - National Conference
Allied Modlingua Services Pvt. Ltd.
(ISO 9001: 2000 & EN 15038 Certified Translation Company)
K-5/B, Lower Ground Floor, Kalkaji, New Delhi -110019
Tel: +91-11-26291676 Fax: +91-11-41675530
Web: http://www.alliedmodlingua.com
The complete report powow / workshop is available at the link below
http://www.termnet.org/english/events/itaindia_workshop.php
Apr 19 '09Sangeeta Joshi: I very lively and charged workshop
I would like to thank Dr. Ravi Kumar for organising this workshop. The debate on quality and professional ethics was most interesting. The information on standardisation of terminology was a useful and important guide. All the speakers were very lively and interesting, but my special mention goes Prof. Roger Bell who managed to draw in all the participants.
The workshop was very successful in creating an awareness of translation standards, CAT tools and professional values among the participants. The speakers were engaging and witty, and made the workshop very lively.
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