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Consultancy
in translation & localization version française Yves A. Champollion champollion dot yves at wanadoo dot fr Based in Paris, France VAT: FR40478659378 ~ Siret: 47865937800010 Related to Jean-François Champollion, Aegyptologist Services: consultancy to governments & corporations in translation and localization. Specialization: cost-cutting, audits, workflow optimization, Computer-Assisted Translation (Translation Memory, Machine Translation, Terminology), recruiting, outsourcing. |
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Overview of recent activity:
| 2000-2010: Developer of the
Wordfast and PlusTools suite of CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) tools.
This suite is popular among translation agencies and
free-lance translators, with over 15,000 licenses in use.
www.wordfast.net. Visiting Lecturer, Ecole Supérieure d'Interprètes et de Traducteurs, Université de Paris III/La Sorbonne, 2005-2008. |
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| 1996-1999: Project manager and consultant for large translation projects in world-class translation agencies (Translatel, Linguex...). Involved in projects for SAP R/3 & R/4, Siemens, Alcatel, Microsoft, IBM, ABB, Ford, etc. |
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| 1982-1995: Free-lance translator. Translated a few US best-sellers in the field of popular science (among which: "Darwin on Trial", by P.E. Johnson, InterVarsity Press, translated into "Le Darwinisme en Question", 1996, Editions Pierre d'Angle, 285 pages, and "The Myth of Repressed memories" by E. Loftus and K. Ketcham, St Martin's Griffin, translated into "Le Syndrome des Souvenirs Refoulés", 1997, Editions Exergue), as well as countless other technical publications & scientific articles. |
Overview of published works and conference papers:
| TEKOM Wiesbaden,, Germany,
4-6 November, 2009 Paper: "The free, universal TM: are idealism and pragmatism compatible?" |
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| Chinese University of Hong-Kong, Hong-Kong, China,
29 August, 2009 Paper: "Representing and Defending our Profession the Age of Globalization." |
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| University of Malaga, Spain , 23-24 October, 2009 - Paper on "Representing and Defending Translators in a Globalized Economy" |
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| Lisa Forum Europe ~ Dublin, Ireland,
8-12 December, 2008 - Exhibitor; Panelist on "Standards Impact on the Productivity of Automated Translation Technologies: What Works, What Doesn't and Why." |
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| Translation World ~ Montreal, Canada, 12 March, 2008 - Keynote Address: "Translation in the Age of Globalization" |
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| FIT-Europe & Asetrad ~ Barcelona, Spain: Technical Seminar on Copyright, Intellectual Property and Translation Tools 13 October, 2007 - Paper : "The free, universal TM: are idealism and pragmatism compatible?" |
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| American Translators Association ~ New Orleans, USA,
1-4 November, 2006 Paper#1: "Representing and Defending Translators in France and in Latin Countries." Paper#2: "Machine Translation and Translation Memory: Breaking the Barriers." |
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| I Congreso Internacional de Traducción Especializada, Buenos Aires, Argentina 27-29 July, 2006 - Paper : "La Representación y defensa de nuestra profesión en la era de la globalización" Article in Clarín Article in Radar |
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| Joint Inter-Agency Meeting on Terminology and Computer-Assisted Translation & Terminology (JIAMCATT), Rome, Italy 20 April, 2005 - Paper : "Current and Future Trends in Computer-Assisted Translation" |
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| III Jornada de Terminologia Aplicada,
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain 13 May, 2005 - Paper presented on: "Machine Translation and Translation Memory: Breaking the Barrier" |
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| The Swedish Association of Professional
Translators Conference, 22-24 April 2005, Uppsala, Sweden Paper presented on "Where are we going? Is there a Future for Translators?" |
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| ASLIB International
Conference, London, Great-Britain, 18-19 November 2004:
Keynote address: "Representing and Defending our Profession in the Age of Globalization" http://www.aslib.co.uk/conferences/programme.html |
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| ASLIB International
Conference, London, Great-Britain, 20-21 November 2003:
"Convergence in CAT: Blending MT, TM, OCR & SR to boost productivity" http://www.aslib.co.uk/publications/translating/09.html |
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| ASLIB International
Conference, London, Great-Britain, 23-24 November 2002:
"Automated Translation: The Next Frontier". http://www.aslib.co.uk/publications/translating/08.html |
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| The Bulletin of the Institute of
Translation and Interpreting (ITI), January-February 2004: "The Million-word guy: Yves Champollion on how he created Wordfast". |
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| In "Entornos Informáticos de la traducción profesional: Las memorias de traducción", 338 pages, Atrio Editorial, Granada, Spain, under the direction of Gloria Corpas Pastor and M.a-José Varela Salinas: Chapter 8 by YC. |
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| 4th International MIDP Colloquium on Multilingualism and Electronic Information Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 22-23 September 2003. Paper on "Machine Translation, Translation Memory and the future of Automated Translation". |
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| The Translation Journal, Volume 5,
No 1, January 2001: "Machine Translation and the Future of the Translation Industry". http://accurapid.com/journal/15mt.htm |
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| Language International, December 2001: "It's
Free but Does it Work?", by Bob Clark, an overview of the early stage of
development of Wordfast. http://web.archive.org/web/20021018205422/http://www.logos.it/owa-l/stampa.press_articolo?lang=en&numero_id=312 |
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