Medicane!

by | 13 April 2021 | Blog posts, Talks

This blog post is written from a talk I gave to the ITI Media, Arts and Tourism network’s “Show’n’Tell” event in November 2020 and to the ITI Wessex regional group’s “Linguists for Sail” webinar in April 2021. The latter...

Getting to the Source

by | 15 March 2021 | Talks

I was invited to deliver a talk to the Chartered Institute of Linguists conference on 13 March 2021. I drew on my previous ITI webinar, which was specific to Switzerland, and spoke about the joys and challenges of living in your source-language country, covering...

Power to the DeepL

by | 3 March 2021 | Articles

Our second language technology project in Avaloq Language Services was to implement DeepL Pro machine translation in the company. There’s no doubt that technology is changing the world of professional translation, but the human factor is still indispensable –...

Cloud Computing

by | 15 January 2021 | Articles

In 2020, the Language Services team at Avaloq, of which I am a member, implemented the Acroilnx content governance and authoring platform to help bring consistency to company communications. It was the first of a number of language technology projects we have...

Looking for Romansch?

by | 11 October 2020 | Articles

I made the cover of the Sept-Oct 2020 edition of the ITI Bulletin – quite literally, as the photo is mine too. Did you know that Switzerland actually has four national languages? Everyone knows about German, French and Italian – but what about Romansch? If...