When Translation Meets DevOps: The Next Decade of Language Services
14:50 - 15:30
This session centers on the core concept of translation engineering, exploring how the language services industry can transition from a "craftsmanship" model that relies on individual experience to a replicable, continuously optimizable "industrialized" production system.
Translation engineering consists of four pillars:
Standardization
Unified processes and standards to reduce inconsistency
Assetization
Accumulating translation memories, termbases, and linguistic assets
Automation
Replacing repetitive labor with tools and AI
Datafication
Measuring quality and guiding decisions through data
The session will begin by examining industry challenges and the bottlenecks of traditional translation models, then expand on each of the four pillars of engineering, and conclude with the closed-loop mechanism of "continuous optimization."