Dates: Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008 and Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008

Location: Front Range Community College, Room C0203, 3645 W. 112th Ave., Westminster, CO 80031 

Please visit http://www.frontrange.edu/FRCCTemplates/FRCC7.aspx?id=109  for directions. Please be sure to follow directions to the Westminster campus.

Note: Lunch is not provided by the CTA.

You are welcome to eat at any of the local restaurants, but as a convenience to you, I am taking orders for boxed lunches from Udi’s. Please contact me at kathy@kdtranslations.com if you would ilke to order a lunch box.

All boxes cost $12 each and come with a drink, a sandwich, cut fresh fruit and Udi’s dessert of the day.

Session Descriptions: 

Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008

Intro to Trados/SDLX

Time: 9:30AM until 12:30 pm 

Trados

-       setting up the translation environment (Workbench, MultiTerm, TagEditor)

-       interactive translation in TagEditor

-       creation of the target language file

SDLX

-       creating a translation project

-       interactive translation in SDLX

-       export of the target language file

Intermediate Trados

Time: 1:30 pm until 4:30 pm 

-       how to prepare/translate different file formats in Trados TagEditor

o    MS Office (Word, PPT, Excel)

o    XML

-       Checking formalities like tags, numbers, punctuation with TagEditor QA Checker

-       Creating a terminology database with MultiTerm and saving terms from TagEditor

Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008

Advanced Trados

Time: 9:30AM until 12:30 pm 

-       Converting term lists (Excel) to MultiTerm

-       Setup, Project Settings and Translation Memory Options in Workbench

Trados/SDLX Tips From the Pros (a panel discussion)

Time: 1:30 pm until 4:30 pm 

Q&A session on questions from the audience and/or presentation of other SDL Trados tools

-       WinAlign

-       S-Tagger for conversion of FrameMaker files

-       T-Window for Clipboard

-       Synergy

-       More details on MultiTerm

About the Presenter:

Angelika Zerfass is based in Bonn, Germany. She holds a degree in translation from the Department of Oriental Languages at the University of Bonn, Germany, in Chinese and Japanese Language and Computational Linguistics. She wrote her thesis on machine translation in China. From 1997 to 2000, she was a TRADOS Training and Support Specialist for Microsoft localization projects, in Tokyo, Japan and Seattle, USA and has been offering translation tools training worldwide since.
She’ll be presenting at the Localization World conference in October and then offering Trados trainings in Seattle immediately following our event (on Oct. 21 and 22) through the Localization Institute.