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) Back to top 2. On-Line Dictionaries, Glossaries, Term Databases, Encyclopedias Eurodicautom Termium Links pages: Robert Shea: http://www.serve.com/shea/wortbuch.htm Richard Lederer: http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/rllink.htm University of Vaasa: http://www.uwasa.fi/comm/termino/collect/index.html Peter Sandrini: http://translation.uibk.ac.at/termlogy/database.html Language Hub:http://www.cetrodftt.com/translate.htm Frank Dietz: http://www.jump.net/~fdietz/glossary.htm Peter Spitz: http://home8.inet.tele.dk/p-spitz/ Dieter Wiggert: http://www.academiaisla.com/links/dwtl.php Dieter Wältermann: http://www.trans-link.com/page2.html Back to top 3. Translation Memory Software Manufacturers Atril (DéjàVu) IBM (Translation Manager) Star (Transit) SDL (SDLX) TRADOS (Translator's Workbench) Back to top 4. Translation Agencies and Companies Aquarius DMOZ Open Directory Project Foreignword Interp.net Japan Financial Translations ProZ.com Translator's Home Companion jobs | agencies Translators on the WWW Translatortips.com Yahoo Back to top 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: Bruno Aeschenbacher's site Chantal Wilford's site Peter Sandrini's site University of Oregon language-related mailing lists Categories: 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 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 LANTRA-L: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7110/lantra.htm. ITA-L (International Translators Association). Subscriptions: send a "subscribe ita-l" message to majordomo@listas.ldc.com.br. Leave the subject heading blank and turn off any automatic signature. TRANSCOOP (Translators Cooperation): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transcoop/. INTERLANGUAGE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/interlanguage/. Back to top B. Language-specific lists i. Romance languages TRADUCCION (Spanish translation list): http://www.rediris.es/list/info/traduccion.es.html. TECNOTRAD (Spanish translation technology list): http://www.rediris.es/list/info/tecnotrad.es.html. SPTRANSLATORS (Spanish translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sptranslators/. TRADUCTORES (Spanish translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traductores/. TRANSLIST (Spanish translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translist/. TRANSPRACTICUM (Spanish translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transpracticum/. UACINOS (Spanish translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uacinos/. EL_LENGUARAZ (Argentinian translation list, for CTPCBA (Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires)): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/el_lenguaraz/. ATIBA (Argentinian translation list, for Asociación de Traductores e Intérpretes de la Provincia de Buenos Aires): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atiba/. RIOPLATENSE (Argentinian/Paraguayan translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rioplatense/. SPANGLISH (Spanish technical translation list): http://majordomo.eunet.es/listserv/spanglish/. COURTINTERP-SPANISH (NAJIT Spanish court-interpreting list): http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/courtinterp-spanish/. IBERICA (Spanish and Portuguese translation list): http://www.rediris.es/list/info/iberica.es.html. TRAD-PRT (Brazilian Portuguese translation list): http//www.geocities.com/tradprt/. TRADINFO (Brazilian Portuguese translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tradinfo/. POR-TRANS (Iberian Portuguese translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/por-trans/. LITTERATI (Portuguese literary/scholarly translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/litterati/. LANGIT (Italian translation list). Subscriptions: listserv@icineca.cineca.it. Discussion List: langit@icineca.cineca.it. BIBLIT (Italian literary translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblit/. TRADUCTEURS (French translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/traducteurs/. SWISSTRANSLATION (Swiss — German, French, Italian, English — translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SwissTranslation/. BELGIAN_TRANSLATORS (Belgian translation list: Dutch, French, German, and English): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/belgian_translators/. ROMLANGTRANS (Romanian translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romlangtrans/. Back to top ii. Germanic languages PT (German translation list): http://www.domeus.de/groups/pt. PARTNERTRANS (German translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/partnertrans/. U-FORUM (German translation list): http://www.techwriter.de/thema/u-forum.htm. VERTALERS (Dutch translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vertalers/. MEDIVERT (Dutch medical translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medivert/. BELGIAN_TRANSLATORS (Belgian translation list: Dutch, French, German, and English): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/belgian_translators/. SWISSTRANSLATION (Swiss — German, French, Italian, English — translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SwissTranslation/. NORSKJAL (Scandinavian translation list): http://www.aknet.is/~lars/norskjaldan.html. SWENG (Swedish-English translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sweng/. SWEDISH-ENGLISH-TRANSLATION-ISSUES (Swedish-English translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swedish-english-translation-issues/. SWED_ENG_BUSINESS (list for discussing the business end of Swedish-English translation): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swed_eng_business/. DANSKOVERSAETTERNET (Danish translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/danskoversaetternet/ Back to top iii. Finno-Ugric languages TRANSLAT (Finnish translation list): http://lists.oulu.fi/mailman/listinfo/translat/. MFEFO (Magyar Fordítók Elektronikus Fóruma: Hungarian translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mfefo/. HUNTRANAG (Hungarian translation agencies list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/huntranag/. Back to top iv. Slavic languages POLFRA (Polish-French translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polfra/. POLISH-TRANSLATIONS (Polish translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/polish-translations/. RUSLANTRA (Russian translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ruslantra/. BULTRANS (Bulgarian translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bultrans/. CZECHED (Czech translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CzechEd/. FORUM_PREVAJALCEV (Slovenian translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forum_prevajalcev/. Back to top v. Asian languages HONYAKU (Japanese-English translation list): http://www.crossroads.net/h1/index.html. FANYI (Chinese translation list): http://www.interlog.com/~dawrant/fanyi.html. CHINESETRANSLATION (Chinese translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chinesetranslation/. BAHTERA (Indonesian translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bahtera/. Back to top vi. Other languages ITZUL (Basque translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/itzul/. METAFRASIS (Greek translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/metafrasis/. TURKISH_TRANSLATION_AGENCIES: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/turkish_translation_agencies/. TIRGUM (Hebrew translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tirgum/. Back to top C. Specialized translation lists FINANCIALTRANSLATORS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/financialtranslators/. LEGALTRANSLATORS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/legaltranslators/. TECHTRANSLATION: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techtranslation/. SPANGLISH (Spanish technical translation list): http://majordomo.eunet.es/listserv/spanglish/. MEDICAL_TRANSLATION: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medical_translation/. BIOMED_TRANS (medical translation list): http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/biomed_trans/. MEDIVERT (Dutch medical translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medivert/. COURTINTERP-L (court interpreters' list): http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/courtinterp-l/ COURTINTERP-SPANISH (NAJIT Spanish court-interpreting list): http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/courtinterp-spanish/. Back to top D. Literary translation lists LITTRANS (literary translation). http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LitTrans/. LITTERATI (Portuguese literary/scholarly translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/litterati/. BIBLIT (Italian literary translation list): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblit/. U-LITFOR (German literary translation list): http://www.techwriter.de/thema/u-litfor.htm. Back to top E. Computer-aided translation (CAT) lists CATMT (Computer aided translation and machine translation): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catmt/. TECNOTRAD (Spanish translation technology list): http://www.rediris.es/list/info/tecnotrad.es.html. DEJAVU-L (Atril DejaVu users group): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dejavu-l/. TW-USERS (TRADOS Translator's Workbench users group): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TW_Users/. U-CAT (German TRADOS Translator's Workbench users group): http://www.techwriter.de/thema/u-cat.htm. TRADOSUSER (Swedish/Nordic users group for TRADOS Translator's Workbench): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tradosuser/ TEFDL (French TRADOS Translator's Workbench users group): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tefdl/. SDLX (SDLX users group): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sdlx/. TRANSIT_TERMSTAR (Star Transit and TermStar users group): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transit_termstar/. WORDFAST (Logos Wordfast users group): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wordfast/. Back to top F. Translation studies lists CETRA (Leuven): http://ls.kuleuven.ac.be/archives/cetra.html ATSA-L (American Translation Studies Association). Subscriptions: send a "subscribe atsa-l" message to md@listserv.olemiss.edu. Leave the subject heading blank and turn off any automatic signature. Discussion list: atsa-l@listserv.olemiss.edu. TRANSLAT2000: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translat2000/. Back to top G. Job and profession lists TRANSLATION-JOBS (Available translation projects for agencies and freelancers): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translation-jobs/. JOBS-TRANSLATORS (Job listings for freelance translators): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jobs-translators/. U-JOBS (für den deutschsprachigen Markt relevante Übersetzungsaufträge aus aller Welt): http://www.techwriter.de/thema/u-jobs.htm. Back to top H. Terminology and linguistics lists TERM-LIST: http://www.uwasa.fi/comm/termino/termlist.html TLSFRM (Terminologie et Langages Spécialisés Forum): http://www.lumbroso.fr/tlsfrm/cadres.htm LANGLINE (weekly mailing list): http://www.electriceditors.net/langline/index.htm FORENSIC-LINGUISTICS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forensic-linguistics.html LINGUIST: http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/ NEWS-L (LanguageTech News). Subscriptions: listserv@multilingual.com. GLOSSPOST (multilingual glossary urls): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glosspost/ TERMXCHANGE (information about new term databases): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/termxchange/. TERMS_ONLY (translation term queries only): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/terms_only/. WWWSIFT (WWW search-engine interface help for translators): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwwsift/. Back to top I. Other lists TYPOGRAPHIE (French typography list). Subscriptions: http://www.francopholistes.com/descr_liste.shtml?liste=typographie@irisa.fr TECHWR-L (technical communication): http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ T-ALLGEM (German tech writers' list). Subscriptions: http://www.techwriter.de/thema/t-allgem.htm. Back to top J. Payment Practices PP-DIST (Payment Practices mailing list, used by freelancers to request credit references from other freelancers who have had experience with specific clients or agencies): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pp_dist/ TCR (Translator Client Review): http://www.tcrlist.com. TRANSLATIONAGENCYPAYMENT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/translationagencypayment/. TRADPAYEUR (Une liste de discussion du comportement des agences, par exemple en ce qui concerne le paiement): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tradpayeur/. ZAHLUNGSMORAL (Dolmetscher und Übersetzer tauschen hier Informationen über die Zahlungsmoral von Auftraggebern aus): http://www.domeus.de/groups/zahlungsmoral/. Back to top 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 Back to top 7. Translation Conferences http://www.tolk.su.se/information/konferenser/konfindx.html Back to top 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/ Back to top 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/ Back to top An artist's conception of the translator at work: drawing 1996 Bill Kaul

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