Gert Van Assche

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Joined December 11, 2015Belgium
At Datamundi we're paying a fair price to linguists and translators evaluating (label/score/tag) human translations and machine translations for large scale NLP research projects.
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A few things about me

Belgium
+32498844475
Post-Editing
From 11 to 15 years of experience
English
Dutch
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My rates

I prefer to post-edit machine translation output, but I only accept a job if I see I can be productive on the job. If the MT output is of poor quality, I prefer to point you to a professional translator.

My biography and experience

I have been working in translation services for 20 years.

From time to time I spend a couple of days to translate myself (ENG>DUT) so I can feel how new technologies are working, how it is to translate or to post-edit, how hard it is to change habits. When I compare the delivery of professional translators to my own efforts, I often am impressed by what they produce. Yet I firmly believe some of the tools I created in the past, are really helping the translators to be more productive.

My sympathy goes to open source projects, open data, and open standards (like XLIFF, TMX, SRX...). I have Rainbow for breakfast, OmegaT for lunch, and SQLite for dinner.

I admire inventors of all kind and entrepreneurs, not just the people who run big companies, but also those who take the risk to run a one-man company. Most of all I love people who care and share. I spend a lot of time listening to translators, trying to understand what they love, what they hate and what they need.

Last year I decided to work 2 days a week in a school for kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder . With pleasure I teach them all they want to know about networking, software development and testing,... I prefer to spend my free time helping local communities and nature-care organisations. And enjoying my big family of course.