TAUS Data Association members significantly reduce entry-level fees for organizations and individuals
TAUS Data Association is a non-profit industry-sanctioned member-driven initiative to extend all our investments by getting the most out of the world’s language data. Membership has grown from 40 to 67 organizations in the first year of operation. Members have proven the benefit of sharing language data for improving term use, better leveraging and machine translation quality.
The repository has grown to 2.6 billion words in 315 language pairs, and includes language resources from public bodies and commerce. The lessons learnt from members’ and users’ experiences as well as through public consultation are shaping and refining the technology roadmap. The coming months will see implementation of translation matching (sponsored by Welocalize), more sophisticated translation memory cleaning, and even more granular data selection tools. These developments, prioritized by members, are part of the Association’s strategy to provide intelligent access to this open resource.
Members’ decision to reduce annual fees fulfills a key promise made at the outset to be as open and accessible as possible, whilst balancing the books, and remaining independent and neutral. Organizations can download huge amounts of data even before sharing in order to trial and confirm benefits. The annual associate level fee has come down from €625 to €250. Professional membership has been reduced from €75 to €50 and allows individuals to download 10 times the amount of data that is uploaded.
“I am extremely pleased that TAUS Data Association members recently voted to significantly reduce entry-level member fees for both organizations and individuals. This makes it even easier for everyone to benefit from this industry-sanctioned member-driven initiative to extend our investments by getting the most out of the world’s language data.”
Jaap van der Meer, director, TAUS Data Association
Members’ fees enable the ongoing development and maintenance of a shared technology infrastructure and toolset for everyone. In a few months all the Association’s technology will be open sourced to take this collaborative and open innovation approach to its logical conclusion, and unleash a huge potential for creativity and growth from a shared world-class technology deck.
About TAUS Data Association
TAUS Data Association is a global non-profit organization providing a neutral and secure platform for sharing language data for the benefit of all. An outgrowth of the Translation Automation User Society (TAUS), TAUS Data Association was founded in the summer of 2008 after over 200 companies and organizations across industry sectors provided guidance on the collaboration model. In June 2009, the Association launched its cloud-based platform with easy-to-use translation memory sharing services and a sophisticated language search engine, free and open to the public.
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