Locworld52, the leading conference for localization experts, networking and industry innovation, is back this year: October 28-30 at the Monterey conference center in Monterey, Calif.

LocWorld is known for its outstanding presentations, a lively exhibition hall and first-class networking opportunities.
Since 2003, it has offered the localization and language industry a platform for exchange and further development.

In recent years, the multilingual communication industry has made great strides in the field of AI thanks to deep learning (e.g. genAI).
However, in order to use AI effectively at an enterprise level, challenges such as data efficiency and interpretability need to be overcome.
An integrated approach that combines deep learning with symbolic AI offers solutions here.
This year’s 6th roundtable “Multilingual AI Round Table: Integrated AI – Deep Learning and Beyond ” brings together AI experts to discuss the possibilities of these approaches for solving business problems.

Prof. Dr. Rachel Herwartz has been invited to this roundtable, where she will discuss with colleagues about

• Integrated AI: implementation and future prospects
• Intelligent quality control with human intervention
• Deep learning and multilingual content: Applications in the enterprise sector
• AI beyond LLMs
• Ethical AI tools as part of procurement processes

entertain.
We look forward to welcoming you there and to exchanging ideas with you!

Training format: Training

With the advent of machine translation – whether neural or with the help of large language models – the translator’s task is shifting from translating texts to quality management of pre-translated texts and, above all, to multilingual terminology work even before translation. After all, who knows more about terms and their terminology than specialist translators?

However, having high-quality terminology in foreign languages recorded in a termbase is still something new for many customers. Until now, they have tended to see terminology as a “by-product” that is created with every translation job and is included in the translation memories. With translations created by AI, this no longer works – and so terminology work is becoming a mandatory basis for machine-translated texts.

For many translators, setting up multilingual terminology, integrating it into the training and translation phase and monitoring it in the quality assurance process is a new and challenging task – but one that can be a lot of fun!

The webinar provides the necessary knowledge about the current requirements for multilingual terminology work in times of AI, about methods and their implementation in various tools. 1.5 hours of theory is followed by a workshop section with interactive exercises in which participants can also reflect on and evaluate their own experiences with tools and terminology projects.

Further information and registration at BDÜ Weiterbildungs- und Fachverlagsgesellschaft mbH (bdue-fachverlag.de)

Training format: Training

The requirements for terminology management and reconciliation systems in companies are increasing. Termbases must be easy to use and self-explanatory for inexperienced users from all departments and around the world, while at the same time meeting all interface requirements with and without AI. This is why the requirements for the design of termbases are becoming increasingly complex.

At the same time, customers and their systems provide Excel lists, glossaries or bilingual dictionaries as input, which first have to be adapted to the requirements of modern terminology management before they can be adopted. Terminology management systems are therefore just as challenging as maintaining other systems in the company, such as a content management system.

The webinar provides you with the necessary knowledge about the current requirements for the design of multilingual terminology databases. 1.5 hours of theory will be followed by a workshop section in which participants will be able to implement various concepts in online databases and reflect on and evaluate their own experiences with the conception of termbases.

Further information and registration at BDÜ Weiterbildungs- und Fachverlagsgesellschaft mbH (bdue-fachverlag.de)

The Language Intelligence Conference 2024 will take place on 19. and 20. November at the Austrian Parliament in Vienna and we are proud to be an exhibitor and bronze sponsor for the first time this year. The conference is considered one of the most important platforms for experts and companies to discuss innovations in the fields of language processing, artificial intelligence and machine translation. Prof. Dr. Rachel Herwartz will give a presentation on the topic “There’s No AI Without Terminology – Professional Tools for Enterprise-wide Terminology Management”. We look forward to meeting you at our stand in Vienna.

Training format: Training

Few systems in a company are as complex as a terminology management system, which has to meet all the requirements of knowledge management in the company, the knowledge of terms, their definitions and their designations.

This is why most systems support a completely free termbase design and company-specific data categories.
However, due to its complexity, this also requires some fundamental thought about how this terminological data can be exchanged with or integrated into other systems.

The webinar provides the necessary knowledge about current exchange formats and tools that can facilitate the conversion. 1.5 hours of theory is followed by a workshop section in which participants can compare different exchange formats and convert them into other formats.

Further information and registration at BDÜ Weiterbildungs- und Fachverlagsgesellschaft mbH (bdue-fachverlag.de)

Training format: Training

Concept maps are indispensable for the retrievability and indexing of content, e.g. for Industry 4.0. They are therefore mostly used in CCMS content management systems. Furthermore, there are employees in the IT department of a company who deal with the creation of taxonomies that can be used to organize the knowledge of an organization.

A system of terms is also created when definitions are created as part of terminology work, initially only in the head of the person entering the terms. This knowledge about the relationship between terms can be organized hierarchically in a termbase using data categories such as department, subject area or product line. However, each term can be related to every other term via a concept map. The type of relationship is also indicated. Some terminology management systems are even developed entirely as concept systems.

The webinar provides the necessary knowledge about the possibilities of visualizing the relationship between terms in a terminology management system. 1.5 hours of theory is followed by a workshop section in which the participants examine the systems they use to see how the relationship between terms could be represented, followed by their own development of a term system in an online tool.

Further information and registration at BDÜ Weiterbildungs- und Fachverlagsgesellschaft mbH (bdue-fachverlag.de)

Would you like to train those responsible for terminology yourself and further educate yourself as a coach?
Then register at www.termXpert.com for our 4-day face-to-face workshop “Train the Trainer” from december 02 – 05, 2024 in the Tectrum in Duisburg.

Subjects: 

• Agile terminology and project management

• Field-tested methods

• Exciting case studies

• Exchange with colleagues

Click here to sign up:
www.termXpert.com

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