Services
TAUS offers industry guidance and access to shared knowledge, tools and resources. Members benefit from reduced overhead costs for research and development, increased production efficiencies and improved performance and market credibility.
Research & reports
TAUS provides research and publishes reports in the areas of language business innovation and translation automation. Research and reports cover best practices, technology briefings, white papers, innovation roadmaps and instructional guides.
Events
Every year TAUS organizes agenda-setting events in Japan, China, Europe and North America. TAUS members receive up to 50% discount on the event registration fees.
Strategic consulting
TAUS offers strategic consulting services to Global members in the areas of enterprise language strategy and language business innovation.
TAUS workshops
TAUS offers workshops in conjunction with TAUS events and other industry gatherings on topics like best practices in post-editing MT and using open-source MT. Members get free access or up to 50% discount on registration fees.
Profile in directory
Members benefit from connecting with the TAUS community of industry and goverment stakeholders. Member profiles are listed in the TAUS member directory with dynamic links to their social media activity.
Member Mark
Members have the exclusive right to use the TAUS Member Mark in their communications
TAUS Labs
TAUS Labs is a member portal for shared research and intelligence in the areas of translation quality evaluation, using machine translation technology, open source machine translation and interoperability.
Dynamic Quality Dashboard
TAUS provides a knowledge base with best practices, metrics and tools for translation quality evaluation as well as online benchmarking tools for productivity testing and quality evaluation
Translation Automation Users Group and Members FAQ
The Users Group holds a monthly call on an invitation only basis to discuss specific operational issues around machine translation deployment. The outcomes are recorded in the Members FAQ, hosted at TAUS Labs.
Machine Translation and Open Source MT Tutorial
A free online tutorial produced by TAUS Labs and the University of Edinburgh.
Translation Services API
A common RESTFul API specification and validation service to help foster a common open web services architecture for translation services.
TAUS Data Services
TAUS Data brings together the world's industries, goverments and non-governmental organizations and research centers to share language data. The goals of TAUS Data are to help the world communicate better, more specifically, to:
- advance universal linguistics
- preserve endangered languages
- support better quality and increased efficiency in human-based translation services
- support automatic translation in new languages
- train and customize machine translation engines
Search
TAUS Data offers a free and publicly accessible Search in the entire language data repository for terms and phrases. The database is getting more than a half million searches each month.
Data pooling
TAUS Data works on the basis of reciprocity. Members and non-members can take data if they also give data. The system automatically keeps track of the ratio of uploads and downloads of data. Non-members have a ratio of 1 on 1: if they upload 1 million words they get a credit to download up to 1 million words. Members get a ratio of 1 on 5: if members upload 1 million words, they get a credit to download up to 5 million words.
Non-replication of data
TAUS filters out and does not count replicate data based on full matches of source level segments with a threshold of 15% in upload batches.
Data quality control
Members agree to submit quality, post-edited, human validated data to the data repository. TAUS keeps the right to archive data and block new uploads of data if bad quality of data has repeatedly been reported from specific contributors
Buying credits
Organizations that are not able to share and upload data with TAUS Data have the option to buy credits for downloading data. Members get 50% discount on the rates for buying credits.
TAUS Tracker
TAUS Tracker is an online searchable directory of machine translation, translation management and many other language technologies.