The Language Technology Landscape - An Introduction
Technology plays a vital role in globalization readiness for international organizations. As the world becomes more globalized, particularly for digital products and services, an entire ecosystem of technologies has grown up to support the work of globalization, internationalization, localization, and translation.
In this video, Tucker Johnson, the co-author of "The General Theory of the Translation Company" and co-founder of Nimdzi Insights, provides an introduction to language technology based off of Nimdzi's Language Technology Landscape (nicknamed the LangTech Atlas). We will start by taking a look at just a few of the most important categories of language technology:
00:00 Introduction
1:03 Translation Management Systems (TMS)
1:25 Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) Tools
2:08 Translation Memories (TM)
2:53 Machine Translation (MT)
3:36 The full LangTech landscape
5:00 Additional resources
Most likely, you have never heard of some of the tools. But you can rest assured that there is an entire Language Technology (or LangTech) ecosystem responsible for driving the global expansion of pretty much every major brand you could think of.
Special thanks to Yulia Akhulkova, the lead researcher driving the ongoing research required for the Language Technology Landscape.