Translation-Related Resources

1. Resource Links Pages
2. On-Line Dictionaries, Glossaries, Term Databases, Encyclopedias
3. Translation Memory Software Manufacturers
4. Translation Agencies and Companies
5. Translator Mailing Lists
6. Translator Organizations
7. Translation Conferences
8. Translation Centers and Programs
9. Translation-Related Publications


1. Resource Links Pages

Mabercom: The Translator's Portfolio of Internet Resources

  • Financial Glossary Index
  • Web Search Companion
  • Webliographies
  • Reference Works
  • Software
  • Freelancing

Spell

  • Agencies
  • Articles
  • Automatic translation
  • Business
  • Directories
  • Journals
  • Language fun
  • Lantra
  • Lantrans
  • Mailing lists
  • News
  • Organizations
  • Plain English Campaign
  • Services
  • Trados
  • Translation Jobs
  • Translation links pages
  • Translators' home pages
  • Unfiled

Translator's Home Companion

  • Translation News
  • International News
  • Glossaries (categorized by language)
  • Translation Engines
  • Other Resources
  • Tools Garage
  • Translation Products
  • Find a Translator
  • Find a Job
  • Organizations
  • Translation Agencies
  • Education\
  • Conferences/Seminars

Translation.net

  • Professional Translation Services
  • Translation Software
  • Foreign Language Keyboards
  • Links to Translation Resources

Translation Zone: Where Freelancers Connect With Trados

Translatortips.com

  • Tranmail: list of 1800+ translation agencies around the world
  • Tranfree: bimonthly e-zine for translators, edited by Alex Eames
  • EBook: How to Earn $80,000+ as a Freelance Translator

WebTranslators.com

  • Discussion forums and chat rooms on topics of interest to language professionals
  • Free web-based e-mail
  • Glossaries and dictionaries
  • Translation organizations
  • Translation industry news
  • World news
  • Translation products
  • Links (conferences, education, other)

Peter Sandrini's Translation Resources

One of the most comprehensive link sites for translator resources:

  • Universities and professional organizations
  • Terminology, resources and translation pages
  • Online journals
  • Mailing lists and discussion groups
  • Linguistics
  • Translation and computers
  • Technical writing
  • Agencies and companies

Yahoo Literary Translator Resources

LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association)

Applied Language (articles on language and translation)

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2. On-Line Dictionaries, Glossaries, Term Databases, Encyclopedias

Eurodicautom

Termium

Links pages:

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3. Translation Memory Software Manufacturers


4. Translation Agencies and Companies


5. Translator Mailing Lists

In addition to the specific mailing lists provided below, check out the following links sites for translation/language-related mailing lists:

Categories:

A. General translation lists
B. Language-specific lists

C. Specialized translation lists
D. Literary translation lists
E. Computer-aided translation (CAT) lists
F. Translation studies lists
G. Job and profession lists
H. Terminology and linguistics lists
I. Other lists
J. Payment practices


A. General translation lists


B. Language-specific lists

i. Romance languages


ii. Germanic languages


iii. Finno-Ugric languages


iv. Slavic languages


v. Asian languages


vi. Other languages


C. Specialized translation lists

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D. Literary translation lists


E. Computer-aided translation (CAT) lists


F. Translation studies lists


G. Job and profession lists


H. Terminology and linguistics lists


I. Other lists


J. Payment Practices


6. Translator Organizations

La Fédération internationale des traducteurs/International Federation of Translators (FIT)

List of FIT Member Organizations

Guild of European Translators

20 ter, rue de Bezons - 92400 COURBEVOIE
Tél 33(0)1.49.97.06.00 - Fax 33(0)1.46.67.37.30
president@guilde.net
http://www.translators-guild.com/

The Translators and Interpreters Guild

962 Wayne Avenue, #500
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone:(301) 563-6450
Toll-free:(800) 992-0367
Fax:(301) 563-6020

info@ttig.org
http://www.ttig.org/

Canadian Association for Translation Studies (CATS)
Association Canadienne de Traductologie (ACT)

Geneviève Quillard
Secretary-Treasurer ACT/CATS
Département d'Études françaises
Collège militaire royal du Canada
C.P. 17000, succ. Forces
Kingston (Ontario)
K7K 7B4
http://www.uottawa.ca/associations/act-cats/

American Translators Association (ATA)

225 Reinekers Lane, Suite 590
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone (703) 683-6100
Fax (703) 683-6122
ata@atanet.org
http://atanet.org/

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)

The University of Texas at Dallas
The Center for Translation Studies
Box 830688 Mail Station MC35
Richardson, Tx 75083-0688
Phone: (972) 883-2092
Fax: (972) 883-6303
ert@utdallas.edu
http://www.utdallas.edu/research/cts/alta.htm

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7. Translation Conferences

http://www.tolk.su.se/information/konferenser/konfindx.html

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8. Translation Centers and Programs

The most complete listing of translator-training and translation studies programs is Anthony Pym and Monique Caminade's, at:

http://www.ice.urv.es/trans/future/tti/tti.htm

A few selected other centers:

Center for Research in Translation (CRIT)
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Translation Referral Service (TRS)

PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902 USA
tel 607 777-6765
trip@binghamton.edu
http://trip.binghamton.edu/TRS.html

Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies

UMIST
PO Box 88
Manchester M60 1QD, UK
tel +44 161 200 3100
fax +44 161 200 3099
http://www.umist.ac.uk/ctis/

Leuven Research Center for Translation (CETRA)

Prof. José Lambert
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium
016/32.4847 or 016/32.4848 or 016/32.4832 (within Belgium)
+32 16 324847 or +32 16 324848 or +32 16 324832 (from outside Belgium)

jose.lambert@arts.kuleuven.ac.be
http://fuzzy.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/cetra/

Translation Center

Translation Center
442 Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003 USA
Tel: (413) 545-2203
Fax: (413) 577-3400
Toll free: (877) 77U-MASS
transcen@hfa.umass.edu
http://www.umass.edu/transcen/

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9. Translation-Related Publications

International Journal of Translation (IJT)

US Bahri
57 Sant Nagar
East of Kaillash
P. Box 7023
New Delhi 110065
India

Language International

Editors Bob Clark and Bert Esselink
John Benjamins Publishing Co.
P.O.Box 36224
1020 ME Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 630 4747
Fax: +31 20 673 9773
language.international@benjamins.nl
http://www.language-international.com/

Machine Translation

Editor Harold Somers
Professor of Language Engineering
Head of Department 
Centre for Computational Linguistics 
Department of Language and Linguistics 
UMIST 
PO Box 88
Manchester M60 1QD UK
+44/0 161 200 3107 
+44/0 161 200 3099

Harold.Somers@umist.ac.uk 
http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/staff/harold/MTjnl/

Meta

Service d'abonnements :
PÉRIODICA
C.P. 444
Outremont (Québec)
Canada H2V 4R6
Tél. : (514) 274-5468
Téléc. : (514) 274-0201
http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~clasand/greslet/meta.html

Multilingual Communications and Computing

319 North First Ave.
Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
http://www.multilingual.com

Target: International Journal of Translation Studies

General Editor: Gideon Toury (toury@spinoza.tau.ac.il)
Editors: José Lambert, Kirstin Malkjær
Review Editor: Lieven d'Hulst
John Benjamins Publishing Company
P.O.Box 36224
1020 ME Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Fax: +31-20-6739773
on-line subscriptions: http://www.benjamins.com/jbp/journals/form.htm

Translation Journal

Editor Gabe Bokor
gbokor@accurapid.com
Accurapid Translation Services, Inc.
806 Main Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 USA
Tel.: (845) 473-4550
Fax: (845) 473-4554
http://accurapid.com/journal/tj.htm

Translation Review

Editor, Translation Review
c/o University of Texas at Dallas
P.O. Box 830688
Richardson, TX 75083-0688 USA
http://www.utdallas.edu/research/cts/tr/

The Translator

Editor Mona Baker
St. Jerome Publishing
2 Maple Road West, Brooklands
Manchester M23 9HH, UK
Tel. +44 161 973 9856 / Fax +44 161 905 3498

stjerome@compuserve.com
http://www.stjerome.co.uk/journal.htm

TRANSST

A translation-related newsletter
Editor Gideon Toury
toury@spinoza.tau.ac.il
http://www.tau.ac.il/~toury/transst/

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An artist's conception of the translator at work:

drawing 1996 Bill Kaul

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