icon.Introduction: Compiled by Jeff Allen, this web page "primarily" focuses on referencing his works related to the topic of Localization.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. March 2004. Thinking about machine translation: several questions to ask yourself when you read an article about MT technologies. In special supplement of Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine, Number 62, March 2004.click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. What about statistical-based Machine Translation? In International Journal for Language and Documentation (IJLD), Issue 7, October/November 2000. pp. 41-42. click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in HTML format or click here to download the article in MS Word format.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. The Value of Internet Translation Portals. In International Journal for Language and Documentation (IJLD), Issue 6, August/September 2000, pp. 45-46. click here to download the article in MS Word format.
MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2001. "Is there a Universal Creole for localization efforts?" In LISA Newsletter, Volume X, No. 3, August 2001 (pp. 39-42). click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in HTML format or click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format.
MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2001. "Closing the Digital Divide: Issues in expanding localization efforts to minority languages". In LISA Newsletter, Volume X, No. 2, April 2001 (pp. 23-24, 32). click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeff. 2004. Inbound versus Outbound Translation. Presented in the Panel entitled "Localization in customer support" at the Localization World conference, Bonn, Germany, June 29 - July 1, 2004. click here.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2004. Meeting multi-regional technical customer support service level agreements (SLAs) with translation workflows. Presented in the Panel entitled "Localizing Technical Support and Managing Multilingual Warranty Claims" at the Localization World conference, Bonn, Germany, June 29 - July 1, 2004. click here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. March 2004. Translation speed versus content management. In special supplement of Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine, Number 62, March 2004.click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Khalid CHOUKRI. 2000. Survey on multilingual issues, and the evolution of languages in speech and machine translation products. Report written within the framework of the LE4-8335 Language Resources Production and Packaging (LRsPP) project. European Language Resources Distribution Agency & the European Commission. Abstract: The ELRA survey on evolution of languages in speech and machine translation products was conducted between March and June 2000 with the objective of analyzing technology providers' offer with respect to languages in these domains. The survey was conceived as a more specific follow-up to the more general study on user needs with regard to language resources for which the results have already been presented in Vol. 4, No. 4 of the ELRA newsletter. click here to download the article. You must be an ELRA member to access the document.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. March 2004. Translation speed versus content management. In special supplement of Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine, Number 62, March 2004.click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 3 December 2003. Ownership at Issue in the Localization Cycle. Globalization Insider, Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) newsletter, Vol XII, Number 4.5. click here to access the summary of the article. You must be a LISA member or LISA Newsletter subscriber to access the full article.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2002. Localisation: coarse or fine-grained? In International Journal for Language and Documentation, Issue 10, August 2001. pp. 45-46. click here to download the article in MS Word format.
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Christopher HOGAN. 1998. Expanding lexical coverage of parallel corpora for the Example-Based Machine Translation approach. In Proceedings of the First International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC98), 28-30 May 1998, Granada, Spain. Vol. 2, pp. 747-754. click here to download the article.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2004. Inbound versus Outbound Translation. Presented in the Panel entitled "Localization in customer support" at the Localization World conference, Bonn, Germany, June 29 - July 1, 2004. click here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. March 2004. Translation speed versus content management. In special supplement of Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine, Number 62, March 2004.click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2002. Localisation: coarse or fine-grained? In International Journal for Language and Documentation, Issue 10, August 2001. pp. 45-46. click here to download the article in MS Word format.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2002. The Bible as a Resource for Translation Software: A proposal for Machine Translation (MT) development using an untapped language resource database. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 51, Vol. 13, Issue 7. October/November 2002. Pp. 40-45. click here to access the original English version of the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeff. 2002. La Bible comme Ressource pour les Logiciels de Traduction: Une proposition de développement des systèmes de traduction automatique (TA) en utilisant une ressource linguistique inexploitée. (Traduction de l'article original en anglais. cliquer ici pour accéder à l'article.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2003. The Bible as a Resource for Translation Software. In International Journal of Localisation, Annual Localisation Reader. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 21 Feb 2004. Re: QUERY: Assessment of translation. Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access this discussion list post that provides many other references. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1999. Adapting the concept of "Translation Memory" to "Authoring memory" for a Controlled Language writing environment. Presented at the 21st Conference of "Translating and the Computer", sponsored by ASLIB, 10-11 November 1999, London. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeff. 1 May 2003. Examples in commercial systems. Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2 May 2003. Examples in commercial systems. Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Thomas WASSMER. 2004. Review of @promt Standard, @promt Professional and @promt Expert Machine Translation software. To appear in Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine, Number 62, March 2004. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2003. Review of Systran Premium 4.0 Machine Translation software. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 58, Vol. 14, Issue 6. September 2003. Pp. 19-22. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2002. Review of Reverso Pro 5 and Reverso Expert Machine Translation software. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 50, Vol. 13, Issue 6. September 2002. Pp. 18-21. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeff. 2003. updated links: articles in MLCT on MT, TM, postediting. Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2003. more MT software review articles. Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2003. additional article in MLCT on MT. Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2003. more articles in MLCT on MT and translation technologies. Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
MASON, Marilyn and Jeffrey ALLEN. 2003. Computing in Creole Languages. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 53, Vol. 14, Issue 1. January/February 2003. Pp. 24-32. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
MASON, Marilyn & Jeff ALLEN. 2002. "Intra-textual Inconsistency: Risks of Implementing Orthographies for Less-Prevalent Languages". In Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA) Newsletter: Globalization Insider, Volume XI, No. 1.3, February 15, 2002, pp 1-5.click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in HTML format or click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format.
MASON, Marilyn and Jeffrey ALLEN. 2001. Standardized Spelling as a Localization Issue. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 41, Vol. 12, Issue 5. July/August 2001. Pp. 37-40. click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format.
MASON, Marilyn and Jeffrey ALLEN. 2000. Human Language Technology issues for Haitian Creole - a Minority Language. In ELSNEWS 10, 1. click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2000. The Risks of Spelling Variation and Reform. Regular column article in International Journal for Language and Documentation (IJLD), Number 4, April 2000, pp. 40-41. click here to download the article in MS Word format.
MASON, Marilyn and Jeffrey ALLEN. 2000. Issues from corpus analysis that have influenced the on-going development of various Haitian Creole text- and speech-based NLP systems and applications. Poster and demo presented at the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000), 31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece.
HOGAN, Christopher and Jeffrey ALLEN. 1999. Phonemic and Orthographic realizations of 'r' and 'w' in Haitian Creole. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 99), San Francisco, 1-7 August 1999. click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format.
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Christopher HOGAN. 1999. Le 'r' et le 'w' en créole haïtien: 1, 2 ou 3 phonemes? Paper presented at the 9è Colloque du Comite International des Etudes Créoles. Held at the Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 24 - 29 June 1999.
LENZO, Kevin, Christopher HOGAN, and Jeffrey ALLEN. 1998. Rapid-Deployment Text-to-Speech in the DIPLOMAT System. Poster presented at the 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP98). 30 November - 4 December 1998, Sydney, Australia. click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format. or click here to access a rasterized version of the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format or click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in HTML format. The article in PDF can also be accessed here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1998. Lexical variation in Haitian Creole and orthographic issues for Machine Translation (MT) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications. Paper presented at the First Workshop on Embedded Machine Translation systems of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) conference, Philadelphia, 28 October 1998. ****** PLEASE COME BACK IN A COUPLE OF DAYS TO DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER ******
ESKENAZI, Maxine, Christopher HOGAN, Jeffrey ALLEN, and Robert FREDERKING. 1997. Issues in database creation : recording new populations, faster and better labelling. In Proceedings of Eurospeech97. Vol. 4: 1699-1702. Conference held in Rhodes, Greece, 22-25 September 1997.
ESKENAZI, Maxine, Christopher HOGAN, Jeffrey ALLEN, and Robert FREDERKING. 1998. Issues in database design: recording and processing speech from new populations (poster session). In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC98), 28-30 May 1998, Granada, Spain. Vol. 2, pp. 1289-1293. click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in PDF format.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2003. Post-editing. In Computers and Translation: A Translators Guide. Edited by Harold Somers. Benjamins Translation Library, 35. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (ISBN 90 272 1640 1). click here for information on the book and chapter.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2002. Review of "Repairing Texts: Empirical Investigations of Machine Translation Post-Editing Processes". (KRINGS Hans, edited by Geoffrey KOBY. 2001. Translated from German to English by Geoffrey Koby, Gregory Shreve, Katjz Mischerikow and Sarah Litzer) Translation Studies series. Ohio: Kent State University Press click here for the book abstract and ordering information. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 46. March 2002. Pp. 27-29. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2001. Postediting: an integrated part of a translation software program. In Language International magazine, April 2001, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 26-29. click here to access the article in PDF format (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2001. Post-editing or no post-editing? In International Journal for Language and Documentation, Issue 8, December 2000/January 2001. pp. 41-42. click here to download the article in MS Word format.
ALLEN, Jeffrey and Christopher HOGAN. 2000. Toward the development of a post-editing module for Machine Translation raw output: a new productivity tool for processing controlled language. Presented at the Third International Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2000), held in Seattle, Washington, 29-30 April 2000. click here to download the article in MS Word format or click here to access the article (in separate browser window) in HTML format. Order proceedings from here for North America or here for Europe
ALLEN, Jeff. 2001. postediting answers (was: questions on MT usage). Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2004. Who should be doing MT post-editing? Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2003. MT is worthwhile for...? Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
ALLEN, Jeff. 2003. article: Pricing Post-editing of MT. Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. click here to access the discussion list post .
ALLEN, Jeff. 2003. article: Pricing Post-editing of MT. Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. click here to access the discussion list post .
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 5 Jan 2004. TOOLS: Machine Translation (MT) Misconceptions part 1. Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 5 Jan 2004. TOOLS: MT Misconceptions Part 2. Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 5 Jan 2004. TOOLS: MT Misconceptions Part 3. Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 26 Jan 2004. ISSUE: MT (mis)conceptions (part 1): rejoinder to reply by list member. Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 26 Jan 2004. ISSUE: MT (mis)conceptions (part 2): rejoinder to reply by list member. Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 26 Jan 2004. ISSUE: MT (mis)conceptions (part 3): rejoinder to reply by list member. Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 21 Feb 2004. ISSUE: the accuracy of MT (was: ISSUE: Please send your comments on MT (Machine Translation). Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 25 Jan 2004. QUERY: MT and TM. Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 25 Jan 2004. ISSUE: Garbage in, garbage out (was: ISSUE: Please send your comments on MT (Machine Translation). Appeared on the LANTRA-L Interpretation (and) translation discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post. You must be a LANTRA-L subscriber to access this post. Subscription info for Lantra-L is here.
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 20 November 2004. No single set of rules. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 6 November 2004. Does MT repeat the same way of translating? Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 6 November 2004. Translation assessment references. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 26 October 2004. Language swell statistics. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 25 October 2004. Character/word/line/page averaging. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 25 October 2004. Percentage of Mac users in translation community. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 23 October 2004. Online MT portals for Asian languages. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 23 October 2004. Training on MT tools. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 22 October 2004. MT: how much time to refine. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 21 October 2004. Machine Translation: yes used for professional translation work. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 11 October 2004. TBX and TMX. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 11 October 2004. Info on IBM TM2. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 10 October 2004. About Multitrans. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 9 October 2004. 3 factors to successful use of CAT tools. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 9 October 2004. Comments on machine translation. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 9 October 2004. TM vs. MT. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 9 October 2004. MT user case study showing that MT is not useless. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 9 October 2004. Using MT software programs. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 9 October 2004. Power Translator. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 9 October 2004. MT is a CAT tool. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 9 October 2004. Eng>Hindi MT. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeffrey. 9 October 2004. Reply on corpus linguistics and translation. Appeared on the Proz translation discussion forum.
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ALLEN, Jeff. 1999. Example-based MT. Appeared on the MT-List discussion forum. Click here to access the discussion list post.
Also see the links to LANTRA-L discussion list postings in a different section of this web site. The discussion on MT misconceptions and MT vs TM provide explanations about the different types of systems.
Go to my Controlled Language web site which lists all of my publications and presentations (and discussion list posts) on Controlled Language and Controlled Translation: click here to access http://www.geocities.com/controlledlanguage/
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 6 Jul 1999. #98: Allen joins the Poincy/DeGraff discussion. Appeared on the Corbett list discussion forum.click here to access the discussion list post (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 6 Jul 1999. #99: computers & economy (was: Poincy replies to Allen) Allen comments. Appeared on the Corbett list discussion forum.click here to access the discussion list post (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 30 Jul 1999. #251: Creole from English: Allen replies to Bellegarde-Smith. Appeared on the Corbett list discussion forum.click here to access the discussion list post (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 18 Sep 1999. #503: Indiana Creole Institute: Allen adds. Appeared on the Corbett list discussion forum.click here to access the discussion list post (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 22 Sep 1999 . #560: Allen comments on #511 & 531: Help in Creole. Appeared on the Corbett list discussion forum.click here to access the discussion list post (in separate browser window).
ALLEN, Jeffrey. 26 Sep 1999. 561: Savain replies on Creole: Allen adds. Appeared on the Corbett list discussion forum.click here to access the discussion list post (in separate browser window).
Go to my Creole Languages web site which lists all of my publications and presentations (and discussion list posts) about Creole language technologies and linguistics: click here to access http://www.geocities.com/creolelangs/
Jeff Allen has 15 years of experience in the language industry, with the majority in commercial and industrial areas of writing for translation, translation software, and localization. His biosketch is here (in separate browser window) at the Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine web site. A more detailed description of his experience is provided here (in separate browser window) at the KnowledgeBoard.
He can be reached at [email protected]. Make sure that you remove the word STOPSPAM in order to successfully send to that address.