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Normally...
    
in San José, California
-- the heart of Silicon Valley

Doing what?
2011
Boston, MA
October, 2011
     
  • Tutorialist: Machine Translation in Practice
    at 52nd Annual Conference of the American Translators Association
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    Xiamen, China
    September, 2011
    		     
  • Invited Speaker: Machine Translation everywhere: Next steps
    Paper: Real-time Multi-media Translation for Healthcare: a Usability Study (with Mark Seligman)
    at XIII Machine Translation Summit
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    San Francisco, CA
    July, 2011
    		     
  • Workshop:The Art and Science of Post-Editing
    at Northern California Translators' Association
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    Internet
    June, 2011
    		     
  • Webinar:Machine Translation on a Shoestring
    at GALA Webinar Series
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    Philadelphia, PA
    April, 2011
    		     
  • Consulting: Deploying Machine Translation at another LSP
    at [Client]
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    Madrid, Spain
    March, 2011
    		     
  • Visiting Professor: Multilingual Ontologies
    at PhD Program in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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    Brussels, Belgium
    March, 2011
    		    
  • Consulting: New Technologies for Multilingual Language Processing
    at [Client]
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    Santa Clara, CA
    February, 2011
    		     
  • Discussing Localization Best Practices
    at SDL Innovate
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    2010
    Denver, CO
    November, 2010
    		     
  • Tutorialist: Introduction to Machine Translation
  • Organizer: Conference Steering Committee and Program Chair for the Commercial MT Users Track
  • AMTA Vice President and Past President
    at Ninth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2010)
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    Denver, CO
    October, 2010
    		     
  • Speaker: Machine Translation in Practice
  • Panelist: Man vs. Machine: Do Translators Need to Pick a Side?
    at 51st Annual Conference of the American Translators Association
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    Moline, IL
    October, 2010
    		     
  • Training: Writing for Global Audiences
    at JohnDeere
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    Shenzhen, China
    July, 2010
    		     
  • Consulting: Localization strategies for Non-English source content
    at [Client]
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    USA
    July, 2010
    		     
  • Editing: Optimizing Web Content for Global Audiences
    at [Client]
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    USA
    July, 2010
    		    
  • Consulting: Business strategy and business plan development for translation technologies
    at [Client]
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    On the Web
    June, 2010
    		     
  • Speaker: Making MT work for you
    at acrolinx Meet the Experts Webinar Series
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    California
    June, 2010
    		     
  • Training: Writing for Global Audiences
    at [Client]
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    San Francisco, CA
    June, 2010
    		    
  • Consulting: Using MT at Non-profit organizations
    at [Client]
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    San Jose, CA
    May, 2010
    		    
  • Speaker: Avoiding Translation Costs at the Source: Pre-editing for better MT Quality
    at 5th Annual aQuatic International Conference & Bay Area MT Users' Group
    A video of the presentation is here.
    •  
    San Mateo, CA
    May, 2010
    		    
  • Discussing localization best practices
    at the Localization Unconference
    •  
    California
    May, 2010
    		     
  • Editing: Optimizing Web Content for Global Audiences
    at [Client]
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    Foster City, CA
    April, 2010
    		     
  • Speaker: Avoiding Self-inflicted Translation Costs
    at LISA Forum USA
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    Foster City, CA
    April, 2010
    		    
  • Speaker: Avoiding Self-inflicted Translation Costs
    at Welocalize Localization Workshop
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    California
    April, 2010
    		     
  • Consulting: Localization strategies for Wiki content
    at [Client]
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    Scottsdale, AZ
    March, 2010
    		     
  • Speaker: It's Coming Whether You Like It or Not: Machine Translation and the Future of LSPs with Alon Lavie (CEO, Safaba Translation Solutions)
    at teh ATA-TCD Conference
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    California
    March, 2010
    		     
  • Report: Strategic Plan for MT Deployment
    at [Client]
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    2009
    California
    November, 2010
    at [Client]
    		    
  • Report: Machine Translatability of Non-technical Content
    •  
    Santa Clara, CA
    October, 2009
    at Localization World
    		    
  • Discussing localization best practices
    •  
    San Jose, CA
    October, 2009
    at the Bay Area MT Users' Group
    		    
  • Speaker: Kinds of MT: Pros and Cons for Localization
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    Yerevan, Armenia
    October, 2009
    at the CSIT 2009 Conference
    		    
  • Invited speaker: MT: Progress and Prospects
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    Dublin, Ireland
    September, 2009
    at [Client]
    		    
  • Consulting: Using MT at Language Service Providers
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    Ottawa, Canada
    August, 2009
    at the MT Summit XII Conference
    		    
  • Tutorialist: Introduction to Machine Translation
  • Vice President &
    Commercial MT Users Program Co-Chair
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    Berkeley, CA
    August, 2009
    at LISA @ Berkeley
    		    
  • Discussing localization best practices
    •  
    California
    April, 2009
    at [Client]
    		    
  • Consulting: Using MT at Language Service Providers
    •  
    San Francisco, CA
    March, 2009
    at The UC Chico Localization Certification Program
    		    
  • Speaker: Industrial-scale Translation with MT: more, better, faster, cheaper
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    Multiple locations
    February, 2009
    at Hewlett-Packard
    		    
  • Training: Writing for global audiences
    •  
    Campbell, CA
    January-March, 2009
    at eBay
    		    
  • Consulting: Deploying MT for eCommerce
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    2008
        
  • President & Conference Chair
  • Dillinger, M. et al. (Eds.) 2008. MT at Work: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. E. Stroudsburg, PA: American Association for Machine Translation.
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    Madrid, Spain
    May, 2008
    at PhD Program in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
    		    
  • Visiting Professor: Paraphrasing and Text Mining
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    Somerset, NJ
    May, 2008
    at Raritan Electronics
    		    
  • Provided training for technical writers:
    Improving document translatability at Raritan
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    Melbourne, Australia
    March, 2008
    at ToggleText
    		    
  • Consulting: Product and business development
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    2007
    Copenhagen, Denmark
    September, 2007
    at Machine Translation Summit XI
    		    
  • Panelist: Prospects for MT Today
  • Meeting of IAMT Executive Committee
  • Meeting of AMTA Board of Directors
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    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    July, 2007
    at the national conference of the Sociedade Brasileira da Computação
    		    
  • Keynote Speaker:
    Beyond Machine Translation -- the grand challenges [in Portuguese]
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    Alexandria, Egypt
    May, 2007
    at the International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and UNL
    		    
  • Invited Speaker:
    Unlocking global content with Machine Translation and UNL
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    Cupertino, CA
    January, 2007
    at Hewlett-Packard
    		    
  • Provided training for technical writers:
    Improving document translatability at HP

    • 2006
        
  • Panelist:
    Usability Issues for Commercial SLT
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  • Tutorialist:
    Tools and Techniques for Translatable Content
  • Meeting of AMTA Board of Directors
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    San Jose, Costa Rica
    July, 2006
    at Word Magic Translation Software
    		    
  • Collaboration on automating machine translation development and testing
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    Swindon, UK
    Cork, Ireland
    June, 2006
    N. Arlington, IL
    April, 2006,
    at Motorola
    		    
  • Provided technical training for technical writers:
    Improving Documentation Quality Management
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    Bedford, MA
    January-April, 2006
    at MRO Software
    		    
  • Audited Technical Documentation
  • Provided technical training for technical editors
  • Provided technical training for technical writers:
    Streamlining Documentation at MRO

    • 2005
    Madrid, Spain
    November, 2005
    at PhD Program in Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
    		    
  • Visiting Professor: Semantic Roles and Interlinguas
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    Seattle, WA
    October, 2005
    at Localization World
    		    
  • Workshop coordinator: Different approaches to MT -- what and how to deploy
  • Panelist: Different approaches to MT
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    Phuket, Thailand
    September, 2005
    at Machine Translation Summit X
    		    
  • Panelist: Bounds of Statistical MT
  • Tutorialist:
    Interlinguas and Semantic Roles
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    New York, NY
    August, 2005
    at SpeechTek
    		    
  • Demonstrations of Converser -- a highly interactive Speech-to-Speech translation system by Spoken Translation, Inc.

     
    • San Jose, Costa Rica
    March, 2005
    at Word Magic Software
    		    
  • Collaboration on automating machine translation development and testing
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    2004
    San Francisco, CA
    November, 2004
    at Localization World
    		    
  • Panelist: Authoring Methods and Tools
  • Workshop presenter: Translation Automation

     
    • Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
    October, 2004
    at the European Center for Security Studies
    		    
  • Consulting: Translation Process Audit
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    Anaheim, CA
    October, 2004
    at the California Cultural Competence and Mental Health Summit
    		    
  • Demonstrations of Converser -- a highly interactive Speech-to-Speech translation system by Spoken Translation, Inc.

     
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