Jeff Allen - Authoring, Translation, Localization, Translation Software, Machine Translation, Automatic Translation, Automated Translation

Software tips (hints, tricks, help), articles, conference presentations, white papers, books, theses, dissertations, discussion list postings, tutorials, training courses, that have been (co-)authored/presented by Jeff Allen, or ones that are scheduled to appear.

About Jeff Allen

Jeff Allen has 15 years of experience on business, industrial, academic and government-sponsored projects in natural language processing, technical writing, writing for translation, controlled language authoring (CL) software, globalization management systems, translation management systems, content management systems, terminology tools, machine translation (MT), translation memory (TM) software, documentation workflow tools, business intelligence performance management tools, datawarehousing, telecommunications software, speech technologies, OCR image processing and localization.

Professional Experience

He is currently Director of Business Development at Translations.com (leading translation and localization company)

He has previously held product development, customer program and project management, market analysis, and technical pre-sales positions at the following institutions:

EMEA Director of Professional Services & Support at SYSTRAN (Machine Translation developer and publisher): (click here).
Senior Program Manager (Customer Program Management & Quality Process Management) in the Product Division of Mycom International (click here).
Project Director at Softissimo (Machine Translation integrator): (click here)
Technical Director at the Evaluation and Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA): (click here)
Research Linguist and Translation Lab Supervisor at the Center for Machine Translation/Language Technologies Institute, Computer Science Dept, Carnegie Mellon University: (click here)
Trainer/Mentor of Controlled Language Authoring tools and Translation tools at Caterpillar, Inc. Technical Information Division, Controlled Language writing/Machine Translation implementation project: (click here)
Sociolinguistics Department Head and Professor of General Linguistics of the Société Internationale de Linguistique: (click here)
Translator/Language Instructor at Executive Language Services: (click here)
Translator at the Centre Oregon d'Etudes Françaises of the Oregon University System International Study Abroad Program: (click here)

He also previously held teaching positions for several years at various educational institutions in Europe and in the USA (Indiana University, Portland State University, Oregon State University, Université Lyon 2, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Lyon, Executive Language Services, Summer Institute of Linguistics/Société Internationale de Linguistique).

Advisory panel positions

He is part of the following Boards:

Editorial Advisory Board of Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine (click here) since February 2001
Industry representative of the LINGUIST List Advisory Panel (click here) since March 2005

Certifications

ISO 9001:2000 Quality Auditor: Certified in September 2005 and significant experience managing quality processes of R&D and Service divisions using both ISO 9001:2000 and TL9000 Quality standards

Machine Translation Certification: He is officially certified as a Dictionary Developer of the PROMT-based Machine Translation software (including PROMT XT v7, v6.5, v6, Reverso Pro & Expert 5, Reverso Pro 4)

List of publications/presentations by Jeff in a topical manner: click here

List of publications/presentations by Jeff organized by publication channel: click here

Contact information

Jeff Allen can be reached at j a l l e n A T t r a n s l a t i o n s D O T c o m for professional inquiries, at j e f f A T m u l t i l i n g u a l D O T c o m for inquiries concerning MultiLingual (formerly MultiLingual Computing & Technology) magazine, and at j e f f . a l l e n A T f r e e D O T f r for other inquiries.