Translate.com’s website offers a free machine translation service powered by Microsoft Translator. Because the site’s highly coveted domain attracts heavy web traffic, thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of unsuspecting users looking for quick machine translation found their confidential data exposed on the internet. The following article was written and published by Florian Faes, Co-Founder […]

The following article was written by Danny de Wit – CEO & Founder of Tolq. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to its content. Boom. There it was in the news: Google NMT makes all LSP’s redundant with their Neural Machine Translation efforts! And if not now, then surely within […]

Image: Mopic / Shutterstock What follows is a very interesting article written by Mats Linder, a freelance translator, writer and editor, regarding data privacy and security issues around the use of public Machine Translation (MT) services. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to its content. How (un)safe is Machine Translation? […]

Interpreters, who help bridge the language gap in presidential meetings, serve as confidants, fact-checkers, and de facto diplomats. The following article was published by David A. Graham, a staff writer at The Atlantic. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to its content. In any meeting with a foreign leader, the […]

The following article was published by Kerri Lu, a marketer at OneSky. Excel Translations does not endorse, recommend, or make representations with respect to its content. What does it take to introduce, then implement an entirely new localization strategy at the “number 1 IT company in the world”? This was the challenge that Cisco’s Internationalisation […]

What follows is an article published by Jaap van der Meer, a language industry pioneer and visionary. The article tries to determine how the translation industry will have changed by the year 2022. Translation companies and the translation industry of today will not be the same in 2022. We’ll see a split in translation tech […]

What follows is based on an article published by Ian Johnston, a correspondent for The Independent. The EU may develop its own unique form of English and could swing the global balance on American versus English spellings of words like ‘harbor’ and ‘organization’. Europeans who speak English are already showing signs of developing their own words, […]

What follows is based on a paper published by Adrian NĂZNEAN, Teaching Assistant at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Tîrgu Mureş, Romania. Abstract: The aim of the study carried out by Adrian Naznean was to investigate and compare medical articles published in English journals written by native and non-native speakers of English. The […]

Image: Shutterstock What follows is an article published by Terralíngua. Simplifying technical language to improve comprehension is not a new concept. In the 17th century, a book by Sir Thomas Urquhart contained his plans to construct a new language using simpler terms for tradesmen. He emphasized the benefits of writing in a style that a […]