Projects

Going Asynchronous In order to practice and prepare myself for the many times I will have to engage in stakeholder education throughout my career, I created and presented a brownbag presentation to a group of my peers. However, as remote work becomes an increasingly more viable option in the workforce, and teams go more and

Introduction Over the course of this Spring, I have sought to develop my skills and familiarity with the various translation technologies, both established and developing, that have a large impact on the language industry. The point of this project was to get a more holistic view at the different Translation Management Systems (TMS) available in

Introduction Over the course of this Spring, I have sought to develop my skills and familiarity with the various translation technologies, both established and developing, that have a large impact on the language industry. To that end, I, along with some of my colleagues, simulated a long-term projects aimed at creating and training an NMT

Project Introduction Do to my having recently re-discovered my love for comic books and comic book heroes, it was natural that when I wanted to hone my DTP (Desktop Publishing) skills, I would feel inclined to localize a comic book page. The biggest issue (pun intended) at the start was choosing which comic book page

The Background Near the end of my first semester at MIIS (Fall 2023), I had the opportunity to be a part of the 31st Mini-Monterey Model Event. To summarize, the event functions as a chance for language studies students (like myself) and interpreters to practice their respective crafts. Language students students give presentations on self-selected

Link to Website Introduction — Brotherly Love My brother is a professional voice actor, a career which is becoming more and more reliant on having an online presence. Being active on socials, Instagram, Facebook, but especially X, is vital (as weird as it might sound, there is hardly any pressure for voice actors to have

Overview For this project, I wanted to experiment with some uses for regex expressions in Trados. Specifically, I wanted to write some expressions that could be used to QA check an English to Japanese translation. For this purpose, I wrote two kinds of regex expression: ones that simply find common errors, and ones that both

Project Overview In order to gain valuable insight and experience, I, and four other translators of different language pairs, simulated a translation project as a team. The project first involved the creation of a statement of work (SOW). The translation was then carried out with each translator being responsible for their own language. At the

A Project by Alice Zhang (Alice’s Website) & Aaron Long (Yours Truly) Post-Mortem by Aaron Copyright Disclaimer: under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. This project is a proof-of-concept, and as such does not