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
The Realistic Perspective: Redux
by Jaap van der Meer 29 Apr 2020
The corona crisis is having a deep impact on the minds of the people who together constitute the ..
Food for Thought
Que Sera? In the Summer of 2021
by Jaap van der Meer 8 Apr 2020
Four Scenarios for the Translation Industry How are we in the translation industry coping with the ..
Events
Massively Multilingual (M2)
by Jaap van der Meer 6 Apr 2020
Bit by bit, we are cracking the human language code. It’s happening fast and it marks a new ..
Food for Thought
Corona Crisis: How Can We Help?
by Jaap van der Meer 20 Mar 2020
What a different world we suddenly find ourselves in. Who would have imagined, just two weeks ago, ..
Food for Thought
Let the Roaring Twenties of Translation Begin!
by Jaap van der Meer 7 Jan 2020
In January 2005 we held the first TAUS Round table meeting in San Francisco. For those of you who ..
2019-12-17
Food for Thought
The TAUS World-Readiness Index
by Jaap van der Meer 16 Dec 2019
TAUS has launched the new theme of World-Readiness. We have spoken enough about the localization ..
Translation-Economics (1)
Food for Thought
World-Readiness and Translation Economics
by Jaap van der Meer 28 Nov 2019
World-Readiness is the ultimate measurement of success in globalization and localization business. ..
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Language Data
Powering Language Data
by Jaap van der Meer 2 Sep 2019
It appears that massive-scale machine translation is possible, if only we have access to large ..
MD Systran
Press Releases
TAUS Partners with SYSTRAN to Provide Users with Stellar Training Data
by Jaap van der Meer 10 Jul 2019
Amsterdam, July 2019 – SYSTRAN and TAUS have agreed to collaborate on creating a solid supply of ..
2020-Blog (2)
Food for Thought
Heh! It’s Nearly 2020! Are You Ready?
by Jaap van der Meer 18 Jun 2019
You may be looking forward to Spielberg’s new version of West Side Story or the US presidential ..
ILF-2019 (2)
Events
Why the TAUS Industry Leaders Forum?
by Jaap van der Meer 17 Apr 2019
Why is TAUS calling executives from the translation industry – both customers and suppliers – to ..
Untitled-Project (73)
Food for Thought
Farewell Localization: Welcome to the Brave New World of AI
by Jaap van der Meer 7 Feb 2019
It happens rarely: the moment you wake up to a new world. Perhaps once or twice in a lifetime. For ..