Jaap van der Meer Jaap van der Meer founded TAUS in 2004. He is a language industry pioneer and visionary, who started his first translation company, INK, in The Netherlands in 1980. Jaap is a regular speaker at conferences and author of many articles about technologies, translation and globalization trends.
Food for Thought
Looking Back on 20 Years of TAUS. Where did we go wrong?
by Jaap van der Meer 21 Nov 2024
This month TAUS is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Before we launched the Quality Estimation and ..
Events
Conferences for a Cause - Twenty Years of TAUS Events
by Jaap van der Meer 2 Apr 2024
Technology looking for users In 2004, TAUS held its first conference in San Francisco, for a very ..
Machine Translation
AI Revolution Changes the Translation Industry
by Jaap van der Meer 16 May 2023
I was a bit skeptical at first, but I must admit now: this is a sea change, a revolution as big as ..
Quality Estimation
Automating Translation Quality Review. How is that Possible?
by Jaap van der Meer 11 May 2023
ChatGPT is causing a revolution in the translation industry. Everyone who had taken a wait-and-see ..
Machine Translation
ChatGPT (Un-)Fit for Translation?
by Jaap van der Meer 31 Mar 2023
The hype around ChatGPT hits every news channel and every sector and aspect of life these days. The ..
Machine Translation
Machine Translation. We can do better!
by Jaap van der Meer 30 Jun 2022
MT has come a long way. After seventy years of research, the technology is now taken into ..
Language Data
Data-Enhanced Machine Translation
by Jaap van der Meer 2 Dec 2021
This is the third article in my series on Translation Economics of the 2020s. In the first article ..
Food for Thought
Reconfiguring the Translation Ecosystem in the 2020s
by Jaap van der Meer 1 Oct 2021
In our article Translation Economics of the 2020s in Multilingual Magazine I raised the question ..
Food for Thought
A Journey into the Future of the Translation Industry
by Jaap van der Meer 3 Aug 2021
The long-expected technical revolution is here. Automatic translation is no longer just a freebie ..
Food for Thought
2021 According to TAUS
by Jaap van der Meer 22 Dec 2020
NO MORE VISION. NO MORE PREDICTIONS. The future is now. No need anymore to predict machine ..
Press Releases
TAUS Launches the Data Marketplace
by Jaap van der Meer 5 Nov 2020
November 5, 2020 - Amsterdam Today, TAUS is going live with the first release of the Data ..
Food for Thought
Translation Business Reshuffle
by Jaap van der Meer 7 May 2020
The 2020 corona crisis has left its scars on the translation industry even though the recession ..