Walter Ng, NZTC Administration and Finance Manager, tells us about his recent adventures in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil and Argentina. For many New Zealanders, South America is a fascinating but remote region, hard to get to and perhaps even dangerous – a destination that calls for a fair dose of intrepid spirit. For Walter Ng, NZTC Finance Manager for more than 23 years, South America represented the perfect opportunity to reconnect with a language that he had studied in his youth

Quality is at the core of our business. With that in mind we are delighted to announce that we have once again been certified to the ISO 17100 Quality Standard for Translation Services, following completion of our most recent audit by the Language Industry Certification System (LICS). ISO 17100 is an internationally recognised standard for translation providers which covers the key processes needed for supplying quality translation services. A key provision of the standard

Machine translation (MT) technology has gone through several phases. Starting with rule-based MT in the 1950s, it moved on in the 1990s to statistical machine translation that drew on the huge bodies of data able to be exploited thanks to advances in data storage. In the 20 years from 1990 to 2010, the focus has been on developing and refining the capabilities of the data-driven statistical model. The latest trend, neural machine translation, has created considerable exciteme