Senior Interpreting Manager

Responsibilities

• Planning of Interpreting activity;
• organization of interpreting at events;
• participation in budget planning, planning and conducting of the unit's accounts;
• recruiting the team of interpreters, conducting interviews;
• monitoring of the overall quality of contractors’ services;
• creation of educational programs for volunteer interpreters;
• terminology materials selection for training of interpreters for the Olympic Games;
• planning the schedule of interpreters and sound engineering technicians at major events.

Requirements:

• Higher education;
• work experience as a simultaneous interpreter;
• work experience in the organization of major events;
• work experience in the organization of major events;
• ability to use simultaneous interpreting equipment;
• professional knowledge of English language, fluent;
• knowledge of computer software: MS Office Advanced experience, CAT tools use experience (Trados, SDLX);
• good communication skills, adaptability, ability to work under pressure;
• readiness for business trips and relocation to Sochi

Теrms:

• employment in compliance with the Russian Federation Labor Code;
• mobile communications, voluntary medical insurance;
• offices in Moscow and Sochi.

Type of employment:

As we all know, terminology is at the core of the translation process and is the foundation of any successful project. Proper terminology management is critical to maintaining top quality throughout a translation project and ensuring that the right message is being transmitted in each language you are translating into.

However, after you have established the terminology for a project, provided the linguists with a glossary and used a state-of-the-art CAT tool for the translation work, you can still end up with translated documents that sometimes use words in the target language that differ from what is in the glossary.

So the rule of thumb here is that the accuracy of the terminology should be verified before you hand documents back to the customer.

There are a number of really great tools that perform Quality Assurance on various aspects of a translation. But when it comes to terminology QA, there are no handy solutions that can correctly and accurately “understand” terminology in inflected languages. There are a number of inflections, due to which the various forms a word can take are usually treated as separate words, giving rise to a great deal of “noise” (false positives) among which it is easy to overlook genuine mistakes.

So we recently decided to develop a tool of our own: one that is accurate, smart, lightweight and rapid.

After a few months of development and internal use, we are proud to announce a public version of TermCheck that really does have all those merits.

Key features of TermCheck:

1. Verification of the accuracy of terminology in TTX, TMX, XLIFF, and TXT (tab-separated) bilingual documents translated from English to inflected languages, with support both for inflections (via a word form database) and for fuzzy matches.
2. Correct processing of both case-sensitive and non-case-sensitive glossaries.
3. Recognition of plural word forms in the source (English) text.
4. Support of text (tab-separated) and Excel glossaries.
5. Easy-to-read terminology QA report listing all mistakes and useful statistics, and ZERO false positives.

Below are some screen-shots of the TermCheck interface and reports, as well as a link for download.

TermCheck is available to use completely free of charge.

Click here to download TermCheck

In May 2012 a competition was announced for the best translation among students in the final three years of their studies in Russia’s higher education institutions.

Awaiting the winners of the contest are cash prizes, paid work experience and employment opportunities within the company. During their work experience the students get the chance to see the whole production process for translation and localization at first hand, based on the example of some of the biggest projects from leading organizations. Moreover, during the training process the focus will be on getting to grips with CAT-tools and learning the technical terminology.

The results have now been announced. Congratulations to the winners!

Moscow and Saint Petersburg

1^st place

Anna Mironova
Moscow, Russian State University of the Humanities

2^nd place

Ksenia Bogdanova
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg State University

3^rd place

Yulia Murashko
Moscow, Moscow Institute of Linguistics

Tomsk

2^nd place

Yana Demakova
Tomsk Polytechnical University

3^rd place

Marina Tereshkova
Tomsk State Pedagogical University

Nizhny Novgorod

1^st place

Anna Roschina
Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University

2^nd place

Anastasia Solovieva
Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University

At the beginning of June representatives of Janus attended the biggest event of the year in the translation and localization industry: the Localization World 2012 conference, in Paris.

The main themes of the conference were:

• Global Business
• Translation Automation
• Localization Core Competencies
• Advanced Localization Management
• Inside Track
• Global Web

Our staff members took part in roundtable events, discussed recent successes with their counterparts from other companies, and talked about the latest trends and developments in the industry.

Janus’s Technical Director, Dmitry Ulanov, gave a brief presentation about his experiences of introducing automated translation within the company, and his impressive achievements thus far. His presentation can be viewed here.

Janus carries out automated translation using the advanced hybrid platform Language Studio. This platform adopts a statistical approach, and the principles of Natural Language Programming, and it thereby ensures high quality in automated translation, with minimal labour costs. The quality with which subsequent material is translated improves rapidly, once the system has been fine-tuned using the final edited version of the automated translation completed earlier.