On July 8, the third edition of “The European Language Resource Coordination” or ELRC workshop was held in Belgium (https://www.lr-coordination.eu/index.php/). The organisation of this workshop is in hands of the LT3 Language and Technology Team of Ghent University.  The ELRC is a European initiative and aims to improve the European…

Last week, four of our interns from 2021 have officially concluded their internships at Untranslate. Maurits, Dilara and Maaike explained what they learned at Untranslate during a short presentation at the UGent campus (albeit with a mask and streamed via Teams), in front of their fellow students, professors and employees…

In this news brief we had wanted to share a pleasant little report on the Cronos Christmas market, a look back on exciting team-building activities, or at the very least a group picture of the recently expanded team. Sadly enough, however, we are obliged to postpone all of these things…

From West Flanders to Limburg: out of all five Flemish provinces, there’s not one that’s safe from our team at Untranslate. Thanks to two new interns, the Antwerp-based Lindsay Lefeber and West-Flemish Ruben D’haeyere, we can now – five years after our founding – tick off the last two provinces…

These are strange times, still. Like everyone else, we at Untranslate await the “un-lockdown” with bated breath. But despite the waiting, we know how to keep ourselves busy. Older projects are partially carried on, but we are also glad to be contributing to certain new initiatives. Initiatives So we bring…

In the context of the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak, the health of our employees and their families is a higher priority to us than ever. Untranslate, just like the whole Cronos Groep, endorses the government’s intention to limit the number of infections in Belgium, and to delay its peak as much…

On 31 January 2020, the University of Lille organised a symposium dedicated solely to machine translation (MT). It was the 7th edition in a series of one-day conferences titled “Traduction & Qualité” which have taken place every two years since 2008. International speakers from academia as well as the professional…

This year, Fedasil launched the mobile website, Fedasil Info, which is a multilingual, intuitive information channel for asylum seekers.  The website offers information about 8 themes (asylum and procedure, living, life in Belgium, return, work, unaccompanied minors, health and learning) in 12 languages (Dutch, French, English, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Russian,…

Just like every year, Cronos organised a warm Christmas market in Kontich and this year Untranslate was also present! Just like some other Cronos companies, we put our shoulders under a warm action. In favour of The Book Caravan (De Boekenkaravaan) we sold warm Christmas cards with wishes in different…

Once again, in June, GentVertaalt organised another Language Conference. The conference took place at the Novotel Gent Centrum on Saturday 22 June 2019. GentVertaalt is an on-line and off-line initiative that brings language professionals together from the Ghent area and (much) further. For example, there is a Facebook group in…