Event: European Association for Technical Communication – tekom Europe e.V.

In her presentation Jenny presents the most important relations for capturing a specific subject area in context, focusing on terminology work as a basis, with an outlook on the topic of the semantic web and beyond. She addresses the following important questions:

1. Relations between concepts – What for? How are concepts related to each other – definition of concept maps, benefits and challenges

2. Types of relations between concepts: What types of hierarchical and non-hierarchical relations exist?

3. What are the “most important” relations? An exemplary investigation of central relations within a specific subject area.

4. The role of relations in terminology work: Can the limitation of relations be made useful in terms of practical terminology work? What systems and workflows are available for the development of concept maps in terminology work?

5. Relations in the semantic web: How can terminologically captured relations be reused in the semantic web?

Source: tekom regional group Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany

Event: tcworld conference 2019, Stuttgart

In the age of the semantic web, relations between concepts play an increasingly important role. In machine-readable ontologies, individual concepts are arranged in classes, provided with certain attributes and put into relation. But what are the different relations between concepts? What else is there besides partitive and abstract relations in the world of concepts? In my presentation I will examine the most important relations for capturing a subject area in context. The main focus will be on terminology work as a basis, with an outlook on the topic of the semantic web.

Event: tcworld conference 2019, Stuttgart

In the year 2019, the European market for artificial intelligence will grow from around three billion euros to 10 billion euros in 2022. Artificial intelligence can make our daily work easier by performing monotonous and repetitive tasks, allowing us to concentrate more on our main tasks. However, there are always sophisticated systems standing behind artificial intelligence – like machine learning. In this presentation, I give you an insight into the engine and point out how an artificial system learns from examples.

Event: tcworld conference 2019, Stuttgart

MT systems are increasingly used for the translation of time-critical projects. Of course, this raises legitimate concerns: Will human beings at some point be replaced by the machine? Is our workplace still secure? The German presentation highlights post-editing as a new field of activity for translators and will discuss ways in which machine translation can be used as a useful tool in the multilingual information process. And all this without having to forego human linguistic skills!

 SlideShare: Human or Machine?

Event: ETUG 2019, Dusseldorf

 SlideShare: Working with concept maps 

Event: ETUG 2018, Dusseldorf

SlideShare: Blc taus etug_2018_ws-mt-dqf

Event: Wordbee User Meeting 2018, Brussels

Modern society is practically unthinkable without the use of algorithms. They make our everyday life easier, relieve us of tedious tasks and help us get a grip on the complexity of work processes. In content creation, localization and publishing, automation routines are ubiquitous for good reasons. Algorithms offer greater speed, accuracy and efficiency. However, they often fail spectacularly when it comes to ambiguity, creativity and empathy. People remain unsurpassed when coping with ambiguities, offering imaginative solutions and grasping subtle nuances of communication is demanded. Ergo, the content industry needs to combine these strengths in the best manner possible. The talk will give an overview of applications, chances and limits of automation, outline new development trends and touch upon the role of man in the automation age.

SlideShare: Algorithms for the content industry

Event: tekom spring conference, 2018, Koblenz

How can machine translation be integrated into the display text creation process? This is illustrated with a real user scenario: The goal of the project was the development of an editor prototype, which can be used to translate display texts into all required languages. It is shown how data is compiled, pre-processed and cleaned and how it is used for the training of machine translation engines. Also methods for evaluating and optimizing machine translation output are presented.

 SlideShare: Using Machine Translation for developing display texts in cars

When trying to look into the future unprepared, things become hazy. So in order to estimate, what services translation specialists will be offering in the years to come, one must not only look back into the history of translation but also follow-up where technology is going. Already today people spend a big amount of their time digesting and generating digital data via mobile applications. The amount of content generated by mankind will exceed 160 Zeta byte by the year 2025. 7 of the 10 largest public companies worldwide are tech and internet companies. Speech is the new text, Chinese the new English and language specialists are the new translators. So where does that leave traditional translation services? They inevitably evolve into the next stage. The skills behind the translators mind are badly needed – today and in the future. Only the tasks differ and the job description is more divers. Listening to the technological trends becomes a necessity and constant learning and diversifying in an increasingly expanding universe. The translators of today are well equipped for this task, because they are curious and fast learners. And they know language and customs of at least two (if not more) cultures.

 SlideShare: Translation Services of the near Future

In technical documentation, time is short and authors are happy about every module completed on time. The correction of linguistic errors is often dismissed as “secondary fine tuning”. However, it is worth taking a closer look! We find proof for this in the quality improvements for technical texts at BMW, which are achieved with an authoring quality system and review cycles. We show how quality assurance in the source language is guaranteed in such a large company, which errors are the biggest problems to overcome and how the tedious work pays off in the end.

Event: tcworld conference 2017, Stuttgart

This presentation shows possibilities, advantages and disadvantages of various MT solutions in the SDL Language Cloud. Of particular interest is the so-called Adaptive MT, a special type of MT system that learns from continuous corrections or user-specific adjustments of MT suggestions by using the user’s post-edits to optimize the engine. A technology that will also play an important role in regard to neural machine translation at SDL.

Event: ETUG 2017, Nuremberg

  SlideShare: Methods for Handling Terminology in Machine Translation 

It’s been working fine for years, but all of a sudden your ‘old’ system is too old, too cumbersome, too expensive – we’ve all been there. Not only do you need your system daily for your company, also all your relevant business data is safely stored there! Choosing a new system can be quite a challenge! Although you know all your stuff by heart, do you have it documented? And in a way that a software company can make you a comprehensive offer? Your IT experts will be able to tell you which system will fit into your existing hardware landscape and what suits your security requirements best. But what about your process and business requirements? In this presentation, we will show you how to proceed when looking for new core software for your business and how to use this as opportunity to ‘clean-up’ your internal processes. After all: replacing an important piece of software should not tear your business heart out, but it should make it beat stronger!

Event: EUATC Conference 2017, Berlin

SlideShare: System Change as Opportunity

We live in a time of change and digitalization – with the internet of things and big data massive data volumes need to be processed in no time. At the same time there is a lot of change going on in the localization industry in order to satisfy this need: systems communicate directly with each other, machine translation is more important than ever, everything happens in the cloud, each second, it seems, there is a new system or application invading the market. If you want your localization processes to remain stable and future-proof, you need to be prepared for these changes. Does that make you feel a little lost? Don’t worry, we take a look at the most important trends with their risks and chances. And we give you an idea how you can adapt your business accordingly and use systems like Wordbee to help you profit from these new developments.

Event: Wordbee Users Meeting 2017, Amsterdam

Anyone looking for a corporate solution for the creation of multilingual content is confronted with a multitude of buzzwords: CAT, TMS, l10n, i18n, Cloud, On-Premise, SaaS … Due to the complexity and variety of available tools, their comparison can quickly lead to information overload and can therefore be overwhelming. So, how does one find orientation? By mapping current processes, determining and describing needs, weighting requirements and outlining target processes. For this purpose, this presentation provides approaches and describes a possible procedure.

Event: tcworld conference 2016, Stuttgart

MT systems are being used more and more frequently for the translation of time-critical projects. But of course this raises legitimate concerns: Will humans be replaced by machines at some point? Is the translator workstation still secure? In this tutorial, we will introduce post-editing as a new, additional field of activity for translators and also show how machine translation can be used as a useful tool in the multilingual information process. And all this without having to sacrifice human language skills – on the contrary!

Event: tcworld conference 2016, Stuttgart