TAUS 2016
Membership Program
TAUS is a resource center for the global language and transla6on industries.
Our mission is to enable be:er transla6on through innova6on and automa6on.
We support all transla6on operators –
transla'on buyers, language service providers,
individual translators and government agencies
– with a comprehensive suite of online
services, soAware and knowledge that help them to grow and innovate their business.
We extend the reach and growth of the transla6on industry through our execu6on with
sharing transla6on data and quality evalua6on metrics.
Highlights in 2016 Membership Program
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Quality Dashboard
for transla6on quality measurement and benchmarking
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Open source API for industry-‐standard quality evalua6on and produc6vity and efficiency
tracking
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DQF Plug-‐ins
for SDL WorldServer, SDL TMS, TRADOS Studio and many more transla6on
technologies
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TAUS Academy
with a wealth of knowledge, online courses, reports and directories of post-‐
editors and technologies
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TAUS Data Cloud now exceeding 60 Billion words in more than 2,200 language pairs and
con6nuing to grow with improved data services
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DQF User Groups
for SDL WorldServer, SDL TMS, MateCat and other transla6on
management systems
Program Overview
Measure and
benchmark your
translaKon quality
Stay informed and
educated with
knowledge,
directories, and
online courses
Share, pool and
leverage translaKon
data
Get your
insights
,
tools
, metrics, benchmarking,
data
and
knowledge
from a neutral and independent industry organizaKon.
Quality Dashboard
Value proposiKon
Benefits
Features
Measuring and benchmarking transla6on produc6vity, efficiency and quality with industry standard tools and metrics.
For transla'on buyers and providers and for translators.
• Get insights in transla6on quality, produc6vity and
efficiency by translator, vendor, project, process, technology, content, language, 6me
• … and being able to benchmark with industry
• Leverage investments in QE tools and processes
• Reduce costs of quality review
• Standardize QE processes across industry
• Less fric6on and disputes
• Increased sa6sfac6on and flexibility
• Content profiling
• Produc6vity and efficiency measurement
• Error review
• Adequacy and fluency evalua6on
• MT ranking
• Open-‐source API for the Dynamic Quality
Framework (DQF)
• Quality Dashboard and downloadable
Quality Dashboard Integrators
“Microsoft Office International team is committed to the DQF model and approach and are actively partnering with TAUS to investigate how best to integrate TAUS Quality Dashboard API into our translation tool set.”
TAUS Academy
Value proposiKon
Benefits
Features
Stay informed and educated with industry best prac6ces and lessons learned from advanced users of technologies and innova6ve business models.
For transla'on buyers and providers and for translators.
• Knowledge bases:
• Dynamic Quality Framework
• Transla6on Automa6on
• Data Management
• Online courses for:
• Quality Management
• Post-‐edi6ng
• Moses
• Directories of post-‐editors and technologies
• Ar6cles, reports and webinars
• Easy and quick access to industry knowledge
• Fast-‐track learning of new skills
• Spread common terms and prac6ces across
Data Cloud
Value proposiKon
Benefits
Features
Share, pool and leverage transla6on data to enable be:er (machine) transla6on.
For transla'on buyers and providers and for translators, developers and researchers.
• Earn pooling credits by uploading data (“Take Five”)
• Improve the performance of MT engines
• Manage transla6on data in a Private Vault
• Largest industry-‐shared repository of
transla6on data (more than 60 Billion words in 2,200 language pairs in August 2015)
• Data upload and download
• Private Vaults for closed user groups
• Data Search
• Industry standard TMX format
• Solid legal framework established by 45
Events 2016
Annual Conference
Portland, OR (USA)
October 24-‐25
Execu6ve Forum
Tokyo (Japan)
April 19-‐20
Industry Leaders Forum
Dublin (Ireland)
June 6-‐7
Execu6ve Forum
Beijing (China)
April 25-‐26
Subscriptions and Membership
Basic Subscriptions
=for anyone interested in trying out the TAUS services
=for translators, consultants and individual subscribers
Basic SubscriptionsProfessional
=for companies using the TAUS services
Professional Business Subscriptions
=best value for buyers and providers of translation
Membership
Basic Professional Business
Cost Pricing 1"user/month 0 €25 €80 NA 1"user/year 0 €250 €800 €2.500 Additional"user/month 0 NA €70 €60 Additional"user/year 0 NA €700 €600 Quality3Dashboard Quality3Dashboard Basic"statistics"&"benchmarking Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ DQF"Tools Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ DQF"API"for"integration"with"Quality"Dashboard Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Detailed"statistics"&"benchmarking X Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Project"statistics,"benchmarking"and"analytics X X Ѵ Ѵ TAUS3Academy TAUS3Academy Free"reports"&"articles Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Discount"on"online"courseware X X X Ѵ Reports"&"research"&"knowledge"bases X X X Ѵ Data3Cloud Data3Cloud Search Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ OnePonPone"pooling"data Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Ѵ Private"Vault X X X Ѵ "Take"5""pooling"credits X X X Ѵ Membership TAUS3Membership Profile"in"directory Ѵ Discount"on"TAUS"&"partner"events Ѵ Member"mark Ѵ Eligible"for"TAUS"Board"&"User"Group"Committees Ѵ Subscriptions Membership
