MT-List members will be interested to learn that TAUS (Translation Automation Users Society) has received overwhelming support for a new language resources project from a group of 26 large organizations deeply involved in multilingual communications. At a meeting held in March, it was agreed to develop a business plan for a language data-sharing industry co-operative. This will be lead-managed by TAUS with the help of a Steering Committee representing most of the organizations present. Language data such as translation memories and parallel text corpora and terminology resources seem destined to shift from the desktop to servers and now to industry-shared respositories. There is a strong groundswell among large-scale users of transaltion automation and workflows to embrace this cooperative approach. By pooling existing corporate silos of language data, it will be possible to provide advanced leveraging for large translation loads, and improved training data for various types of machine translation systems. A co-operative platform should also help member/subscribers access new markets faster, and identify and streamline terminology compliance in different industry domains. The organizations interested in the co-operative plan include large companies, public organizations and language technology developers. The following attended the historic meeting that led to this consensus and hopefully opened a new chapter in large-scale resource sharing, data-driven language technology development, and the sharing of best practices and skills: Adobe, Autodesk, Canadian Government Translation Bureau, Cisco, CLS Communication, eBay, EMC, European Patent Office, Hewlett-Packard, Idiom Technologies, International Monetary Fund, Intel, Language Weaver, Lingotek, Lionbridge, Microsoft, Molina Healthcare, Multicorpora, Oracle, Paypal, PTC, SDL, Sun Microsystems, TM Marketplace, UGS and Welocalize. Find out more about the progress of this new co-operative, and keep in touch with new developments at www.translationautomation.com
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