Since 2014 TAUS has been offering an online post-editing course. The course comprises of a theoretical part and hands-on exercises in which the practitioners learn to apply the best practices in post-editing. More than 1,000 translators have already taken the course and received the certificate. Anne-Maj van der Meer will give an overview of the program. For more information, see: https://www.taus.net/academy/taus-post-editing-course

1. TAUS Post-editing Course and Certification
Anne-Maj van der Meer, TAUS

3. Overview
● Online study
● Self-paced
● Consisting of 6 modules of practice + 2 online assignments
● Course language is English, assignments available in 28 target languages
● Receive TAUS Certificate and use of TAUS PE Stamp

4. Available languages
● 28 languages
English →
Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish,
Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish,
Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Spanish →
English

5. 6 Modules
Approx. 6 hours of self-study
1. Machine Translation History
2. Machine Translation Systems
3. Machine Translation Performance
4. Controlled Language & Pre-editing
5. Post-editing
6. Project Management for Machine Translation

6. Assignments
Participants will be required to complete two exercises using the TAUS
Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF):
● Error typology evaluation
● Productivity measurement
Time: approx. 4 hours

7. Certification + PE Directory
● Participants who finish the modules and the assignments receive an
official TAUS Certificate to use in their CV and on their websites
● Use of TAUS “Certified Post-Editor” stamp
● Register in TAUS Post-Editors Directory to be found by TAUS Members
for PE jobs. See: https://www.taus.net/post-editors

8. Collaboration between TAUS and LSPs