Evaluation of Machine Translation
by Mike Unwalla
To promote a new service, I want to show potential customers that machine translation can give good results. Because I did not find a suitable evaluation on the Internet, I designed a small evaluation. The evaluation confirms that if text is optimised for machine translation, machine translation gives good results....Read more.
South Korea Beckons: Global Awareness and Cultural Sensitivity Strategies for Western Technical Communicators
by Rahul Prabhakar
For the past four years, I've lived outside India. Being an expatriate has given me a unique perspective; it has made me more responsive toward the issues of global awareness and cultural sensitivity. More importantly, working as a technical communicator in East Asia has rewarded me with firsthand experience of the cultural differences and their implications on both my professional and personal life. Through this article, I'd like to share my experiences—good and bad—with Western technical communicators, about what it's like to work for a Korean company...Read more.
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Around IEEE
Student Competition
Share your ideas for changing the world in the 2010 President's Changing the World competition. Or, join IEEE members in Second Life and play in the virtual world...Read more
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Project Management
2 for the Price of 1
Since July and August are combined issues, you get to read 2 of Michelle's columns this month. The July issue focuses on how effective Project Management can help you enjoy your life more. The August column talks about learning and standards for success...Read more
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AdCom Nominations
2009 Nominations Announced
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Tools
Editing for Single Sourcing
Single sourcing is a hot topic that gets a lot of ink from authoring tool vendors. For the purposes of this column, I’ll define single sourcing to mean creating one set of source content and, using features like conditionality, variables, and snippets, output some or all of that content in a form customized for...Read More.
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