Asia Online and Moravia Worldwide to Present Webinar on New Model for Partnerships in Machine Translation Services
New Partnership Model and the Benefits of a Combined Technology and Language Services Solution
Brno, Czech Republic - January 27, 2010
Moravia Worldwide, a leading globalization solution provider, and Asia Online, a leader in automated machine translation technology, announced today their upcoming free live webinar titled "Asia Online and Moravia Worldwide: A New Model for Partnerships in Machine Translation Services."
Scheduled for Tuesday February 16, 2010, this 60-minute webinar will provide insights into the current applications of machine translation and how the effective combination of linguistic services and MT technologies best helps realize the potential that machine translation offers today.
Presented by Bob Myers, Moravia's Chief Operating Officer, and Kirti Vashee, Asia Online's Vice President of Enterprise Translation Sales, the webinar will focus on the key aspects of MT system deployment and how the Asia Online/Moravia partnership leverages the strengths of both at each step. This includes:
- Planning
- Corpus organization and cleanup
- Engine training
- Integration with existing systems
- Quality evaluation and tuning
- Pilot operation
- Post-editing standards and issues
The webinar will also include a demonstration of aspects of Asia Online's Language StudioTM platform suite and of the overall machine translation process, including Language Studio EnterpriseTM (core translation server platform), Language StudioTM Pro (SMT data analysis and preparation, project management, translation workflow), Language StudioTM Editor (integrated quality control and post-editing workflow) and Language StudioTM PowerTrain (SMT translation engine building).
The webinar will conclude with practical recommendations for companies that are considering implementing MT, or who are looking to improve their existing MT use.
The webinar will be held on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 11:00 EDT (8:00 PDT, 17:00 CET). Space is limited. Reserve your webinar seat now. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Asia Online and Moravia Worldwide formed a partnership in October 2009, designed to provide clients with value-added automated translation solutions based on Asia Online's Language StudioTM platform and Moravia's linguistic and technology services. The two companies teamed up to serve customers with high-volume translation needs across a range of quality requirements and areas of specialization. As part of the partnership, Moravia was designated a "Center of Excellence" for provision of the Asia Online statistical machine translation (SMT) platform and services.
About Moravia Worldwide
Moravia Worldwide is a leading globalization solution provider, enabling companies in the information technology, e-learning, and life sciences industries to succeed in global markets with high quality multilingual products. Moravia's solutions include localization and product testing services, internationalization, multilingual publishing, technical translation and content creation. Moravia Worldwide maintains global headquarters in the Czech Republic and North American headquarters in California, with local offices and production centers in Japan, China, Argentina, Ireland, USA and throughout Europe. To learn more, please visit www.moraviaworldwide.com.
About Asia Online
www.asiaonline.net / www.languagestudio.com
Asia Online is a privately owned company backed by individual investors and institutional venture capital. Its corporate headquarters are in Singapore, and it has significant operations in Bangkok, Thailand, with R&D activities throughout Asia and expanding sales operations in Europe and North America.
Asia Online has developed technology that enables near-human quality mass translation of text across more than 500 language pairs. The technology is currently being deployed to assist enterprises and language service providers translate large amounts of information into their preferred languages and translate millions of pages of open content into local languages absolutely free to help eliminate information poverty in countries which are under served by such content.
Asia Online won the Red Herring Global 100 Award for "Most Promising Technology Startups" in January 2009 and was profiled recently by Gartner in their report entitled "Cool Vendors in Emerging Technologies, 2009."
Contact:
Moravia Worldwide
Europe & APAC
Véronique Ozkaya, Chief Sales Officer
+420-545-552-454
vozkaya(at)moraviaworldwide.com
North America
Diane M. McAveeney, Director of Sales, North America
+1-917-972-8496
dmcaveeney(at)moraviaworldwide.com
Asia Online
Kirti Vashee, Vice President of Sales, Americas and Europe
+1-310-741-7800
kirti.vashee(at)asiaonline.net
