http://www.inttranews.net/ News Site for Linguists, Interpreters, Translators, Teachers, Translation Project Managers, Students http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=50791 California, USA (LA Times): This week we wrote about Google's Translate application and how it could eventually change the way people communicate, overcoming the language barriers that have long separated human populations. Franz Josef Och leads the machine translation (MT) team at Google, and has been the driving force behind much of the company's progress on the technology. The following is an edited transcript of a recent interview with Och. For more information, please visit: latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/03/the-web-site-translategooglecom-was-done-in-2001-we-were-just--licensing-3rd-party-machine-translation-technologies-tha.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:46:24 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=50790 London, UK (Daily Mail): The Home Office has spent nearly £68million on translators and interpreters in the past six years. But annual spending has dropped from a peak of £14.9m in 2004-5 to £9.5m in 2008-9. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said £67,906,000 had been spent on translation and interpretation services in the Home Office itself, the UK Border Agency, Identity and Passport Service and Criminal Records Bureau between 2003-4 and 2008-9. For more information, please visit: www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/126011/-68m-in-six-years-for-interpreters/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:44:43 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=50789 Maryland, USA (Gazette): More defendants in a multistate federal case involving executives of Rockville deaf services company Viable pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to defraud a Federal Communications Commission program that helps the deaf, authorities said. So far, 11 of the 26 people who were charged in the case in November have entered guilty pleas. For more information, please visit: www.gazette.net/stories/03122010/businew174816_32557.php Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:43:59 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=50788 Manila, Philippines (AHN): The family of a Filipino interpreter for U.S. troops, who died last month, is asking for an investigation of his death. Officials have ruled the death of Gregan Cardeño a suicide but his family says foul play was involved. For more information, please visit: www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018079066?Family Of Dead Filipino Interpreter For U.S. Troops Wants Suicide Probed Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:39:26 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=50787 Massachusetts, USA (Response Source): Thousands of companies around the globe offer translation services, spoken language interpreting, and website localization, competing for business in a market estimated by market research firm Common Sense Advisory at US$17 billion in 2010. However, as a new report from Common Sense Advisory reveals, many of these firms fail to make their own websites available in multiple languages. For more information, please visit: www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=54476 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:38:28 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=50786 Peshawar, Pakistan (APP): Professor Dr Elahi Bakhsh Awan, an eminent England-based lexicographer, linguist, research scholar, poet and writer from the Walled City of Peshawar, is carrying out work on a comprehensive Hindko-English dictionary which will hit the market this year. This was told at a meeting of the Gandhara Hindko Board, a literary, cultural and social welfare organisation, held here on Wednesday. For more information, please visit: www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98184&Itemid=2 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:37:27 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=50785 California, USA (PR.com): As the number of international visitors at U.S. trade shows increases, and businesses expand into new international markets, so does the use of interpreters for communicating with non-English-speakers. To answer questions related to working with interpreters, language services company Global Language Solutions (www.globallanguages.com) has published a tip sheet, “Working with Interpreters in a Multilingual Business or Event Environment”. Some of the topics and solutions covered in the tip sheet include: For more information, please visit: www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/tip-sheet-for-working-with,1200212.shtml Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:36:42 +0100 http://inttranews.inttra.net/cgi-bin/news_email.cgi?action=aff_art&art_id=50784 Idaho, USA (WCF): The United States doesn't have an immigration crisis, Erik Camayd-Freixas said Tuesday during a talk at St. Stephen the Witness Catholic Student Center. Instead, America suffers from "a crisis created by immigration raids and deportations", explained the scholar, an interpreter at federal hearings following the 2008 raid of Postville's Agriprocessors meat-processing plant. For more information, please visit: www.wcfcourier.com/news/local/904adb8c-2c5f-11df-8b4f-001cc4c03286.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:35:42 +0100