Hosted Solution Enables Students to Collaborate on Translation Projects in Real Time and in Multiple Roles

DRAPER, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lingotek, the leader in collaborative translation solutions, today announced that the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), a graduate school of Middleburry College, has deployed Lingotek’s - hosted solution through its award-winning Collaborative Translation Platform^TM. With the hosted solution, MIIS graduate school students can utilize the latest technology from Lingotek to translate huge amounts of content in order to better connect with each other and their global counterparts.

“Lingotek enables our students to collaborate on translation projects in real time and in multiple roles (e.g. project manager, translator, editor 1, etc.). They can immediately apply strategies from the classroom, as well as develop and share terminology.”

Recognized for strong programs geared towards grooming professionals able to provide leadership in cross-cultural, multilingual environments, MIIS has integrated Lingotek’s technologies to strengthen its curriculum and expose students to cutting-edge online translation technologies. With the integration, MIIS students can collaborate and share content via robust features. These features include machine translation, translation memories, open translation and access to experienced reviewers who can rate content for precision, accuracy and reliability. Finally, Lingotek has simplified the typically complex IT problem when it comes to translation memory for the graduate school.

"We have been using Lingotek in the classroom since 2008 and recently increased our investment,” began Uwe Muegge, program chair of Translation and Localization Management at MIIS. “Lingotek enables our students to collaborate on translation projects in real time and in multiple roles (e.g. project manager, translator, editor 1, etc.). They can immediately apply strategies from the classroom, as well as develop and share terminology.”

“Lingotek greatly simplifies things. We don’t need to involve the IT department anymore – Lingotek takes care of everything and has greatly empowered students and instructors here at the Monterey Institute."

“One of our most satisfying projects has been working with MIIS to simplify the translation process and make it more affordable,” Lingotek CEO Robert Vandenberg said. “The school’s increased investment in our products is not only validation for us but for the education sector’s continued adoption of new technologies. Any university that has translation as part of their curriculum can profit from Lingotek’s capabilities.”

With Lingotek’s platform, content managers can upload and edit documents easily as well as invite and connect with community members who can not only view and contribute translations but also rate the precision and reliability of the translation. By combining best-in-class machine translation solutions and real-time community translations, MIIS users will be able to produce “real time” translations in a third amount of the time while reducing large costs organizations typical handled by translation services.