Insights in the evolution of the translation industry and overview of the TAUS industry program.

1. TAUS 2016
Membership Program
www.taus.net

2. TAUS is a resource center for the global language and translation industries.
Our mission is to enable better translation through innovation and automation.
We envision translation as a standard feature, a utility, similar to the internet,
electricity and water. Translation available in all languages to all people in the
world will push the evolution of human civilization to a much higher level of
understanding, education and discovery.
We support all translation operators – translation buyers, language service providers,
individual translators and government agencies – with a comprehensive suite of online
services, software and knowledge that help them to grow and innovate their business.
We extend the reach and growth of the translation industry through our execution with
sharing translation data and quality evaluation metrics.
TAUS Mission

3. Program Overview
Translation quality
management and
benchmarking using
industry-standard
metrics.
Knowledge bases with
use cases and best
practices; directories of
technologies and post-
editors; online training
courses.
The largest industry-
shared repository of
translation data.
Get your insights, tools, metrics, benchmarking, data and knowledge
from a neutral and independent industry organization.

4. Quality Dashboard
Value proposition
BenefitsFeatures
Translation quality management with
industry standard tools and metrics, fully
integrated in the day-to-day translation
environment with an open API.
For translation buyers and providers and for
translators.
• Reduce costs of quality review
• Get insights in translation quality, productivity and
efficiency by translator, vendor, project, process,
technology, content, language, time
• … and being able to benchmark with industry
• Leverage investments in QE tools and processes
• Standardize QE processes across industry
• Less friction and disputes
• Increased satisfaction and flexibility
• Content profiling
• Productivity and efficiency measurement
• Quality management and review
• Industry standard DQF-MQM harmonized
metric
• Open-source API for the Dynamic Quality
Framework (DQF)
• Quality Dashboard and downloadable
reports

5. Quality Dashboard Integrators
“Microsoft Office International team is committed to the DQF model and approach and are
actively partnering with TAUS to investigate how best to integrate TAUS Quality Dashboard
API into our translation tool set.”

6. TAUS Academy
Value proposition
BenefitsFeatures
Stay informed and educated with industry
best practices and lessons learned from
advanced users of technologies and
innovative business models.
For translation buyers and providers and for
translators.
• Knowledge bases:
• Dynamic Quality Framework
• Translation Automation
• Data Management
• Online courses for:
• Quality Management
• Post-editing
• Moses
• Directories of post-editors and technologies
• Articles, reports and webinars
• Easy and quick access to industry knowledge
• Fast-track learning of new skills
• Spread common terms and practices across
company teams and supplier networks

7. TAUS Academy Partners

8. Data Cloud
Value proposition
BenefitsFeatures
Share, pool and leverage translation data to
enable better (machine) translation.
For translation buyers and providers and for
translators, developers and researchers.
• Earn pooling credits by uploading data (“Take Five”)
• Improve the performance of MT engines
• Manage translation data in a Private Vault
• Largest industry-shared repository of
translation data (more than 70 Billion words
in 2,200 language pairs in August 2015)
• Data upload and download
• Private Vaults for closed user groups
• Data Search
• Industry standard TMX format
• Solid legal framework established by 45
founding members

9. TAUS Data Founding Members

10. Events 2016
Annual Conference
Portland, OR (USA)
October 24-25
Executive Forum
Tokyo (Japan)
April 19-20
Industry Leaders Forum
Dublin (Ireland)
June 6-7
Executive Forum
Beijing (China)
April 25-26