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In the News - 2000
International Translation Day:
Technology Serving the Needs of Translation
September
30, 2000
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Daniel,
Robert Cormier, Sibylle Bechtold, Annie
St-Jacques, Katie Dupont and Mariane Leclerc
celebrating International Translation Day at the Fireside
restaurant in Halifax.
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The International Federation of Translators invites detached
consideration of this topical issue during the celebrations
of 30 September 2000. It invites the professional associations
of Translators all over the world to draw the attention of
their members and the public at large, to the advantages and
disadvantages of the new tools employed in our profession.
The time is ripe for an assessment of the changes to the
day-to-day work of translators brought about by the ever-present
computer, widespread access to the Internet, almost universal
access to e-mail and the use of such tools as voice recognition
programs, integrated translation project managers, on-line
document data bases, translation memory and so on.
It is also time to assess the reality of claimed productivity
gains, the reduction of time-lines, the development of working
practices over the ether and the downward pressure on the
price of translations.
Finally and most importantly, FIT encourages the examination
of the effects of technology on translation quality and on
the quality of life of Translators.
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