Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

Globalization/Localization Consultant locflowtech.com Toronto Joined April 2009

Tweets

151
Followers

385
Following

134
Likes

11

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

5 years ago

blog.memoq.com/world-canine-u… World Canine Union action revealed by memoQ!

0 0 0 0 0

My younger son, Riho, who is studying Engineering & Society at McMaster University, needs input for a research project he is conducting. It consists of two short answer questions. If you have a moment and wish to contribute, here's the URL: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Thanks! -r

0 0 0 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

5 years ago

Today Alessandra Binazzi, Aki Ito, and I held a planning session in our virtual offices for our "So You Wanna Be a Consultant" session at #LocWorldWide43 . It is session P3 in the Global ToolBox preconference day track. Check it out! locworld.com/locworldwide43…

0 1 2 0 0

Download Image

Jeromobot @Jeromobot

6 years ago

Waiting for me at home...

1 1 1 0 0

Download Image

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

The meme I created won the meme contest here at the GlobalSaké conference?

0 0 2 0 0

Download Image

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

At the airport on my way to the GlobalSaké conference in San Francisco. Reception tonight. Conference tomorrow.

0 0 1 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: "There's a business case nowadays for creating super-clean TMs for the exclusive purpose of training MT engines."

0 0 0 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable: How do you clean up your TM? "Deprecation by age; deprecation by frequency of TU usage; alignment checks, terminology checks, successive project deprecation, population of TM only from final deliverables."

0 2 4 0 1

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Tranlation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: How do you clean up your TM? "However you do it, back up your TM first!"

0 0 0 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: "For continuous delivery, context metadata should be added to translatable content automatically, not via time-consuming human effort."

0 0 0 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: "With higher automation comes higher risks."

0 0 1 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: "Customers don't care about standards unless standards fail."

0 0 1 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: "Quote from a prospective customer: 'I would never purchase a translation technology tool that didn't have an offramp.'"

0 0 0 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: "In the next 10 years, translation tools will disappear into other technologies such as CMSs as a subfunction of a greater offering."

1 0 1 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Soundbyte: "Standards consist of concepts and rules."

0 0 0 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Sound Byte: "A standard is a picture of how things were five years ago!"

0 0 0 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Sound Byte: I spend 85% of my time setting my customers' expectations about what my product can and cannot deliver."

0 0 0 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technology Roundtable Sound Byte: "Translators rarely make mistakes on information they have. More often, they make mistakes on information they don't have."

0 0 3 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Translation Technoloy Roundtable Sound Byte: "Tools today focus on passing text, not passing context."

0 0 0 0 0

Richard Sikes @LocFlowTech

6 years ago

Plunet published an interview with me today about the Translation Technology Round Table that we are holding in Heidelberg on the 19th and 20th of this month: plunet.com/en/translation…