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  Non-machine translation services

The following data is a collection of sources of translation as performed by humans. We hope it will be of as much interest to those who are seeking to locate a translator as to those who wish to offer their translation skills for reward.

When the Internet evolved from its military and then academic roots almost all the web-sites were written in American English. This position is now being eroded as more vernacular sites come on-line and more sites offer displays in several languages according to the visitor's choice. A statistic which I read, possibly in Search Engine Watch, (Jan/Feb 2003), suggested that by about 2004/5 more than one third of all web-sites would be written in non-English languages. R.H.

Disclaimer: The inclusion of an item in this list does not constitute an offer or a recommendation by the British Computer Society or its Natural Language Translation Specialist Group.

 

American Literary Translators Association
University of Texas at Dallas, MC35, Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA.
Telephone: +1 214-883 6303.
E-mail: ert@UTDallas.edu

Aquarius Directory of Translators and Interpreters
Aquarius is the largest Internet resume-databank of its kind.
About 900 translators and interpreters from all over the world
represent themselves on our pages. All records are updated weekly.
The database is searcheable by "language pair," "location"
and "specialisation". The database service is free of charge.
WWW: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jumanl
E-mail: jumanl@xs4all.nl
Source (edited): Yuri E. Vorontsoff (jumanl@xs4all.nl) via elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl, 19 March 1996.

ARAMedia Group
Translation of technical texts in Arabic. Localization of Latin
software into Arabic. Arabic fonts.
Telephone: +1 617-825 3044.
Facsimile: +1 617-770 9191.
E-mail: gnhbos@aol.com
WWW: http://http://aramedia.com
Contact: George N. Hallack.
Source: Usenet: sci.lang.translation, 9 May 1996.

Beacon Translations
Beacon House, Willow Walk, Skelmersdale, WN8 6UR, U.K.

BilinguaGroup Recruitment
International language recruitment consultants
49 Maddox Street, London W1R 9LA, U.K.
Telephone: +44 (0)171-493 6446.
Facsimile: +44 (0)171-493 0168.

De La Rue's Top Jobs on the Net
WWW: http://www.torres.co.uk/topjobs

ELSNET Job Placement Service
Job and CV archives ranked by subject, location, etc.:
NL and speech jobs advertised through ELSNET:
CVs of job seekers:
Elsnet Job Placement Service:
NL and Speech Events Calendar:
To Place a Job Ad or CV in the ELSNET Job Placements Page
send an e-mail message, preferably in English, to
All job advertisements will be posted to the readers of elsnet-list,
in addition to being listed on the ELSNET web pages.
Employers should give a brief description of the job which includes:
  1. job title,
  2. qualifications or expertise required of candidates,
  3. location of job,
  4. closing date for applications (if there is one).
Job seekers should send a brief CV which includes:
  1. qualifications,
  2. main research interests,
  3. other information which may be relevant to employers in the field
    of NL or speech processing,
  4. whether you are seeking temporary (i.e., for summer or traineeship)
    or long-term employment,
  5. your date(s) of availability.

Enhanced Technologies Inc. (Translate Now)
Address: 1600 S. Eads St. Suite 536N - Arlington, VA 22202-2918, U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 703-769 4249. 0800-368 3249
Facsimile: +1 703-769 4250
WWW: http://www.enhtech.com/transnow.html
E-mail: wwwadmin@enhtech.com
Languages include Albanian, Arabic, Bhojpuri, Bulgarian, Burmese,
    Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto,
    Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hebrew,
    Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese,
    Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian,
    Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak,
    Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tatar,
    Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish and Yoruba.

Employment agencies
The Appointment Section (information technology): WWW: http://taps.com/
Media Contacts (advertising): WWW: http://www.media-contacts.co.uk/
Moxon Dolphin Kirby (Monster Board): WWW: http://www.monster.co.uk/
People Bank Employment Network (general): WWW: http://www.peoplebank.co.uk/
Price Jamieson (information technology): WWW: http://www.pricejam.com/
Reed Employment (general): WWW: http://www.reed.co.uk/

GCHQ Cheltenham, U.K. (intelligence gathering)
Seeking translators having a thorough graduate-level knowledge of:
    Azeri (preferably with Russian), Chinese (especially Cantonese),
    Dutch, French (with German and Italian), Greek, Hindi,
    Hausa, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Malay,
    Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Thai,
    Turkish, Urdu, Yoruba.
    Any Asian, Oriental or Middle-Eastern languages.
Telephone: +44 (0)1242-232912/3.
Facsimile: +44 (0)1242-260108.
WWW: http://www.gchq.gov.uk

Glenn's Guide to Translation Agencies
John M. Glenn, No.4, 275 Liberty Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 415-824 2345.
Facsimile: +1 415-824 1707.
E-mail: john@glennsguide.com
WWW: http://www.glennsguide.com

GoTranslators
E-mail:
WWW: http://www.gotranslators.com/
A directory service which provides contact details of translators according to ..
  • languages: Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukranian.
  • fields: Arts, Construction, Culture, Finance, Human Sciences, Industrial, Information Technology, Law, Medicine, Science, Society, Technology, and Transport.

Hebrew Translator's Home Page
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/1602/

Homeworkers conference
Concerns of people who work at home.
WWW: http://www.homeworker.co.uk/
On 12th August 1996 this site was described in The Independent newspaper (UK) as
being new and almost empty.

Language Line is a telephone-based simultaneous (human) interpretation
service offering over one hundred languages.
Address: Language Line, 18 Victoria Park Square, London E2 9PF, U.K.
Telephone: +44 (0)181-983 4042.
Facsimile: +44 (0)181-983 3598.
E-mail: langlineuk@aol.com

Language Technology Centre Ltd.
Dr. Adriane Rinsche, 27 Cotswold Close, Kingston upon Thames,
    Surrey KT2 7JN, U.K.
Telephone: +44 (0)181-549 2359.
Facsimile: +44 (0)181-974 6994.
WWW: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Language_Technology_Centre

National Association of Judiciary Interpreters & Translators
NAJIT is a non-profit professional organization dedicated to the
furtherance of the court interpreting profession. Its headquarters
are in New York, U.S.A.
WWW: http://www.najit.org/
Source (edited): David Mintz (dmintz@ix.netcom.com) via
    Usenet:comp.infosystems.www.misc, 19 March 1996.

On-Line Career Centre
OCC offers a service whereby you can search through resumes for a
translator or post your own resume. Many careers are catered for.
All resumes are indexed into categories. The U.K. representative
for OCC is Austin Harte <100733.1467@compuserve.com>
who is based in Scotland.
General information: occ-info@occ.com
College information: occ-college@occ.com
Gopher: gopher://occ.com
WWW: http://www.occ.com
Member services: occ@occ.com
Post a resume: occ-resumes@occ.com

Polylang Ltd offers document translation, localisation of text
in computer games and localised World-Wide Web sites. It employs
some 70 full-time translators and 250 freelancers worldwide.
It has offices in Sheffield, Lille and Frankfurt.
Contact: Wolf Percival (managing director).
Telephone: +44 (0)114 267 0017.
Source: CTW - Computer Trade Weekly, 9th September 1996, page 22.

RWS Group
From an advertisement in The Guardian newspaper, London, 11 October 1997:
"RWS Group PLC is Europe's largest and most highly regarded translation
company with a staff of more than 200 and clients in over 30 countries
throughout the world."
Address: RWS Group, Europa House, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. SL9 8BQ, England.

SDL International
Butler House, Market Street, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 8 AA, U.K.
Facsimile: +44 (0)1628 410 505.
WWW: http://www.sdlintl.com
Software and multimedia localisation.Languages required include
     Brazilian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese,
     Korean, Spanish-Latin American, Spanish-European.

Thai-English translation service
Contact: Niparut Chairungruang, rancr@mucc.mahidol.ac.th
    (Mahidol University, Thailand).
    Facsimile: +66 2-642-8490
    Source: Niparut Chairungruang, via Usenet:sci.lang.translation,
      comp.software.international, 19 Jul 1996.

TransDoc translation service
English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
W3 Internet Services Ltd, 22 Market Street, Liverpool, Nova Scotia,
    Canada, B0T 1K0.
Telephone: (902)354-7464.
Facsimile: (902)354-7154.
WWW: http://www.eucanect.com
E-Mail: info@eucanect.com
Source: Andrew Ernst, ernst@eucanect.com
    via Usenet:sci.lang.translation, 18 Jul 1996.

Translate Now
Enhanced Technologies Inc. offers translation services for over fifty
languages. It employs several hundred translators.
Telephone: +1 800-368 3249, +1 703-769 4249.
Facsimile: +1 703-769 4250.
E-mail: transnow@enhtech.com
WWW: http://www.enhtech.com/transnow.html
WWW: http://www.enhtech.com/
Contact: Eric Sobczak, Translation Services Manager, esobczak@enhtech.com
Source: Eric Sobczak, via Usenet:comp.software.international, 18 April 1996.

Translators Association, The
84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB, United Kingdom.
Telephone: 44 (0) 20 7373 6642
Facsimile: 44 (0) 20 7373 5768
E-mail: DSym@societyofauthors.org
WWW: http://www.societyofauthors.org/translators/index.htm
The Translators Association was set up in 1958 and is a constituent part of the Society of Authors.