Presentation from our seminar "MULTILINGUAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT" in Ghent on March 30th together with dotProjects and CrossLang.

1. Quick and inexpensive publication ofmultilingual web content viamachine translation, workflow systems and CMS

2. Telenet case study

3. Multilingual website (nl)

4. Multilingual website (fr)

5. Multilingual website (en)

6. What does it take to translate? Translator Content owner Content owner

7. What does it take to translate? 2. Pre-process source files 3. Convert files to translation format 4. Assign translation memories and glossaries 5. Analyse DTP work - page count + art + screen shots 6. Count words + TM analysis 11. Create file structure 1. Request translation 7. Order confirmation 35. Validate Translation projects upon receipt 38. Deliver final files 39. Archive 40. Invoice Client Engineering 7. Calculate cost 8. Confirm order 9. Project scheduling 10. Instructions for translators 12. Allocate translators 13. Allocate reviewers Project management 28. Desktop publishing 29. DTP QA 30. Implement corrections in DTP format 32. Publish Project management DTP Translation Functions Tasks 14. Extract new terms 15. Translate new terms 36. Update glossary Terminology Engineering 26. Convert files to native format 33. Compile 34. Functional testing 37. Update TM Validation 16. Validate new terms 24. Validation by subject matter expert Language specialists Project management Translation 17. Prepare translation package 18. Project communications 19. Status reporting 20. Financial tracking and reporting 22. Review 23. QA check 25. Receive and implement review comments 31. Implement text corrections in TM 21. Translate 27. Localise artwork/ illustrations/screenshots

8. Translating web content Voluminous Momentary User-generated

9. Process optimization Increase productivity in order to reach quick turn-around time Reduce fragmentation and overhead in order to obtain flexibility, transparency and scalability  Automation & Integration

10. Translation technology today

11. Automating the translation process Step 1

12. Translation process (old)

13. Corporate departments Linguistic resources SD Worx resources Customer portal Request Translate Workflow engine Track Revise Collaboration platform Translator workbench Review Editterms Translation process (optimized)

14. Online collaboration platform

15. Project monitoring

16. Automating the translation production process Step 2

17. Translation production (optimized) TMS Corporate departments Linguistic resources SD Worx resources Linguistic assets Request TM TD Post-edit Track Revise Connectors Review Editterms MT

18. Translation reuse

19. Translation production environment Translation Memory + Machine Translation Translation Memory alone

20. Productivity

21. Objectified evaluation (1)

22. Objectified evaluation (2)

23. Learning curve effect

24. The art of post-editing

25. Upload to website and test Task Assignments Return files to web manager Review files Web master Project manager Reassemble files and send to reviewers Translator Reviewer Translate text Distribute appropriate localization kits to appropriate translators Split text & prepare kits for translators Negotiate vendor pricing Export database to XML Prepare project Project turnaround time – Weeks Without TMT With TMT Translation of Knowledge Base

27. Automating change detection Step 3

28. Integrating authoring and publication environment The easy part: initial translation of the Knowledge Base The challenging part: keeping the different language versions up to date

30. Manual project launch

32. Quality MT gets better: R&D + customisation Linguistic resources gain experience Direct communication between content owners and linguistic resources Terminology database grows Less overhead = less risk of making mistakes

33. Terminology database access

34. Getting started

35. TMS SaaS Cost effectiveness No upfront investment or commitment in software licenses Reduced translation cost through maximized translation re-use Reduced fragmentation and overhead Efficiency All stakeholders (internal or external) use same tool sets Automated repetitive project steps Speed up content delivery Improved translation quality through global brand consistency Transparency and flexibility Control and ownership of linguistic resources Internal and/or external sourcing Tracking and reporting capabilities Seamless adoption and little change management Scalability Phased approach Expandable Connectors for machine translation and third party software integration

36. Thank you! Nathalie De Sutter Nathalie.de.Sutter@crosslang.com +32 486 515113