On 10-11 October 2015 I attended the Trikonf international translation conference in Freiburg. Trikonf is an acronym for “trinational conference” in German. Its sessions were held in German, English and French.
This two-day conference offered numerous hands-on presentations, seminars and workshops, divided into three parallel language blocks.
Thematically, the conference focused on “Tuning the Machine“, i.e. translation technology and productivity strategies. Presentation topics included machine translation, comparing the costs and leaning curve of computed-assisted translation systems, as well as quality management and quality control tools.
The Trikonf conference was organised by The Alexandria Library, a provider of online courses for translators that was run by Siegfried Armbruster.
Event details
| Type of event | two-day conference held in English, German and French |
| Title | “Trikonf Translation Conference 2015” |
| Event organiser | German Federal Association of Translators and Interpreters, Rhineland-Palatinate chapter |
| Facilitators / Presenters | various |
| Date | 10-11 October 2015 |
| Place | Historisches Kaufhaus • Münsterplatz 24 • 79098 Freiburg • Germany |
| Main topics | • Der Nutzen von TM-Systemen vs. Anschaffungskosten und Einarbeitungszeit, by Renate Dockhorn • Local Data Mining with dtSearch, by Dominique Pivard • Gestion de la terminologie avec memoQ, by Gabriel Lang • Converting PDF to Word for CAT tool processing, by Ellen Singer • Kollegin oder Gegnerin – wie die Maschine bei komplexen Fachübersetzungen kooperiert, by Ralf Lemster • Speech In Speech Out: Spracherkennung und Sprachausgabe beim Übersetzen sinnvoll einsetzen, by Christian Alkemper • Outils de conversion et création de TM et glossaires, by Delphine Guérou • Strategies for Fast and Efficient Corpus Building and Mining, by Anne Murray • Accélérez et automatisez vos recherches terminologiques en ligne avec Multifultor, by Eric Le Carre • Managing metadata, by Marek Pawelec Disaster Recovery tips for translators, by Sameh Ragab |
