SDL Language Cloud

Posted by 40dots / Tools & Equipment

The first release of SDL Language Cloud has introduced some very nice capabilities that replace the SDL BeGlobal Community machine translation feature for SDL Trados Studio 2014. These features are:

Free Machine Translation with 96 language pairs for up to 600,000 characters a month
Paid Machine Translation as above but with some additional options
– Use simple glossaries in the form of TBX files to ensure they are translated the way you wish
– Extend your ability to have more than 600,000 characters a month
– Use a trained Machine Translation engine for reduced post-editing effort with limited language pairs and currently only from English into something else (…continued)

International Conferences 2015: January

Posted by 40dots / Conferences

JANUARY 2015

Lyon (France), 15-17 January 2015: Acedle 2015, Interagir pour apprendre les langues aujourd’hui

Tromsø (Norway),16 January 2015: International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralirc Languages

Tübingen (Germany), 22-23 January 2015: The Division of Labor: A View from Syntax, Semantics, Information Structure and Processing (DoL 2015)

Tromsø (Norway),22-23 January 2015: Norwegian Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology

Grenoble (France), 25-29 January 2015: 29^th Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Special Track on Al and the web

Barcelona-Bellaterra (Spain), 27-30 January 2015: 12^th Old World Conference in Phonology

Malaga (Spain), 29-31 January 2015: New Horizon in Translation and Interpreting Studies

linguistic conferences

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Can I use “fishes”?

Posted by 40dots / Grammar, Usage

Of course you can, if you refer to:

A scientist, who studies fish (ichthyologists), for example, often refer to different species as fishes.
To the Bible, as Jesus fed thousands of people with loaves and fishes.
The movie The Godfather popularized the saying that someone sleeps with the fishes to indicate that he or she has been killed by the mob and dumped in the water.
A few different sayings that begin with If wishes were fishes.

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