TAUS Rome Conference Insights and Highlights

Another successful TAUS conference has concluded, and we couldn’t be prouder of the outcome. This year, we were pleased to welcome many new faces—almost 50% of the participants were first-timers.

As always at TAUS events, the audience and speakers were actively engaged in discussions,? aligning perfectly with our aim of learning, inspiration, and collaborative problem-solving across all industry perspectives.

We were proud to have such a diverse group of attendees from various sectors and regions across the globe, as the charts below are showing.

Upgrading skill sets at the Pre-Conference Workshops

Prompt Engineering for Localization

The live hands-on workshop led by Konstantin Dranch from Custom.MT was helping localization engineers, project leaders, and their managers adapt to their evolving profession. Attendees engaged in hands-on learning to become masters of AI, using advanced models like ChatGPT-4 and Anthropic Claude 3 to address industry-specific challenges and support human tasks. Thirty participants worked in teams to experiment with prompts and solve challenges, with moderators assisting to enhance the quality and accuracy of the outputs.

Quality Estimation Workshop

A second workshop on Machine Translation Quality Estimation (MTQE) inspired 40 attendees to explore this relatively new technology and heard from a range of experts in the field.?

Amir Kamran ( TAUS ) provided insights into the evolution of MTQE research and its practical applications. Christian Federmann ( 微软 ) offered a detailed exploration of using LLMs to assess translation quality (GEMBA).?

Marta Nieto Cayuela ( Uber ) shared their compelling use cases demonstrating the efficiency gains they achieved through TAUS MTQE to improve their customer support processes.?

And last but not the least Adam Gaugecz ( memoQ ) provided valuable strategies for seamlessly integrating MTQE into existing workflows, all within a TMS.?

At the end of the workshops, we enjoyed a wonderful opening reception, pool-side at the Sheraton Parco de’ Medici Hotel. We gathered outside in the beautiful backyard of the hotel, enjoying good food, drinks, and networking with people all working on breaking the language barriers.

There were so many things we learned, discussed, and were impacted by at the #TAUSRome2024 conference, but we will only mention a few here.

Translation has now emerged as the 5th most searched topic globally, with an impressive 4.5 billion requests in the second quarter of 2024, surpassing online shopping, calculators, Google Maps, and Instagram in popularity.

Reflecting on a big milestone in the language industry (this year marks the 70 years after the first MT experiment in 1954), our CEO Jaap Van Der Meer remarked, “Now, we’re in the final stretch. I’m glad to have dedicated my life to this problem.”

Discussions at the conference dived into AI's transformative role in enhancing quality processes and enabling multimodal work. Participants gained fresh perspectives on how AI can revolutionize localization practices.

Networking Dinner Organized by Translated

The networking dinner was sponsored and organized by Translated at their beautiful PI campus. A beautiful setting and a perfect opportunity to continue the networking.

What’s next?

Did you miss out on the?#TAUSRome2024 conference? Join us for the #TAUSABQ2024 conference on 2-4 October and be a part of facilitating and stimulating change in the language (now together with AI) industry. Secure your spot by registering here (early bird discount valid until 31 July).

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