Tilde is a member of the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) which is the largest global industry organization. GALA provides resources, education, ideas, and research to enhance the power and performance of the translation and localization sector. GALA offers platforms for gathering the global language community together for sharing knowledge and collaborating. GALA brings together nearly 300 companies from over 50 countries.
July 19, 2011. Tilde work in language technologies was an example of successful development presented at the business seminars at Stanford University (CA) and Austin Chamber of Commerce (Austin, Texas).
Tilde Eesti Managing Director Margit Kurm delivered a presentation about Estonian translation market in OPTIMALE regional workshop WP4. Subject of the workshop was “Monitoring market and societal needs and professional requirements relevant to translator training” and it took place on 17 June 2011 at Vilnius University. There were 40 participants from universities and translation companies from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland.
July 25, 2011. Mountain View, Austin, New York. Tilde has concluded visits to the headquarters of the top US IT companies. At the meetings with corporate management of Google, Dell and IBM Research Tilde presented cooperation opportunities in language technologies. Tilde visited these companies in the delegation of the Prime Minister of Latvia Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis who promoted cooperation in IT sector.
Committed to the developing of Language Technologies, Tilde has launched a new EuroTermBank portal. Started in 2004 as an international eContent project, it federated over 100 terminology resources and 4 external term banks. Now it boasts over 2.3 million terms in 27 languages, all available from a newly remodeled and improved portal www.eurotermbank.com.
The results of an industry wide survey by the Latvian IT Cluster highlight that Tilde enjoys a very high corporate reputation. Tilde’s overall rate is slightly above the average rates in Latvia and is higher than the average in the IT sector in Europe as benchmarked by the surveyors. Tilde enjoys broad recognition and is a very well-known company especially among IT professionals and students.
The factors contributing to the high evaluation by respondents are the high quality, usability, and user-friendliness of Tilde’s products and services.
Tilde joins the leading language technology companies and researchers to shape technological developments for multilingual Europe. META-FORUM, to be held in Budapest, Hungary on June 27/28, is an international conference on powerful technologies for the multilingual European information society and an official event of the Hungarian EU Presidency.
On 9–10 June, a meeting of the LetsMT! project will take place in Edinburgh. The main objective of the meeting is to assess the performance of the project to date and agree on next project activities. Partners of the LetsMT! project jointly build a machine translation service that is available to anyone on the web, can be self-serviced and is specifically suitable for Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Danish, Czech and other minor languages as well as for specialized translation areas.
The European Commission has highlighted the need to develop language technologies for all European languages to provide the people of the EU countries an equal opportunity to access information and use the latest IT technologies in their native languages. This week, Tilde welcomes leading researchers from the Nordic and Baltic countries to agree on what needs to be done to ensure that the languages of these countries have access to modern language technology tools for translation, search, speech processing.
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