Professional Courses 2015-16
memoQ
Venue
Foster Court, rooms 216-220
University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps
Number of Attendees
15 maximum
Date
Saturday, 12 March 2016
Time
10:30 am – 4:30 pm
Lunch from 1 until 1:45 pm.
Course Fee
Including lunch
Full rate: £115
UCL staff / CIOL members: £103.5
Student concession: £65
Course Trainer
Emmanouela Patiniotaki
Trainer Background
Translation & localisation professional; Professional translators' trainer
Who Would Benefit?
Freelance translators, undergraduate and postgraduate translation students, translation
tutors
Course Objectives
This course will introduce you to one of the latest CAT tools that is gradually gaining ground
in the translation industry. You will become familiar with the user interface memoQ provides
and learn how to use its main functions effectively according to the project you are working
on.
Software
memoQ
Course Content
The first part of the course will focus on the rationale behind the structure of memoQ in
comparison to other software and the reasons that have made it popular among translation
companies. We will also discuss the basics of translation technology and the components of
translation software
During the second part of the course, you will be introduced to the main functions of the
software and you will be guided through processes of translation, as well as building your
own resources with memoQ. By the completion of the tasks that follow this process, you will
be able to use memoQ for basic translation projects.
In the last part of the course, we will import and work on different types of files, discuss
export solutions, compatibility with other software and term bases and explain the options
available in: QA, filtering, alignment, predictive actions, statistics, reports etc. Finally,
participants will be added to an online group that will last for a week where they can talk
about their experience using memoQ and discuss any issues with the rest of the participants
and the tutor. Participants will also be given resources on the software.
Certificate
You will receive a certificate of attendance.
Contact
Soledad Zarate soledad.zarate@ucl.ac.uk
Website
www.ucl.ac.uk/centras