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06/04/2011

Pangeanic's CEO to speak at European Commission's DGT today

Manuel Herranz, Pangeanic's CEO and PangeaMT's chief strategist, has been invited to speak at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation in Brussels later on today. He will be offering the language industry's current perspective on Machine Translation. The conference itself, entitled Translators and Machine Translation, is geared at raising further awareness on translation automation technologies and best practices. We append the conference programme below. Please contact us if you need further details or would like to receive a copy of Manuel's presentation later. EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Translation Directorate R - Resources, R.3 - Informatics

TRANSLATORS AND MACHINE TRANSLATION

DGT CONFERENCE, 6 APRIL 2011, G-12 3/21– JMO M6 Programme 14.15 Welcome and introduction by Mr Piet Verleysen, Director for Resources, DGT 14.30 Machine translation technology – introduction by Dr Andreas Eisele, Machine Translation Project Manager, Informatics unit, DGT 15.10 Machine Translation and translators: evidence from research by Dr Sharon O'Brien, Lecturer in Translation Studies, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland 15.50 Machine translation: the perspective of the language industry by Mr Manuel Herranz, owner & senior strategy officer of the "Pangeanic" translation company, Spain 16.30 Using machine translation in DGT: the experience and the perspective of a language department by Mr Hilário Leal Fontes, translator, Portuguese Language Department, DGT 17.00 Discussion 17.30 Closing by Mr Josep Bonet, Head of the Informatics Unit, DGT.