On April 23, Jakub Absolon from ASAP-translation.com, translations and interpreting, presented the ISO 18587 standard and its problematic passages concerning mainly the definition of full post-editing to representatives of the language departments of UK, UKF, UMB, UCM, UPJS, and Prešov, as well as the SSPOL and SAPT associations, the ISO 18587...
On April 11, the Association, represented by K. Absolonová for ASAP, K. Tkáčová for Skrivánek, and K. Michalcová for Tetras, presented itself at universities in eastern Slovakia. The lecture took place at the Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, at the invitation of doc. PhDr. Slávka...
On March 11, the Association organized a webinar on machine translation and large language models, which was led by doc. RNDr. Ondřej Bojar, PhD. from the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. The webinar was of a very high professional standard, but at the same time it...
On February 29, the Association presented itself at the invitation of doc. Mgr. Pavel Šveda PhD. to second-year students at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. K. Absolonová from ASAP-translation.com explained what it means to be a professional company, vendor manager Z. Kolejákova from exe...
On February 13, Yamagata s.r.o. held a webinar on the basics of technical writing, initiated by the Association of Translation Companies. The training was attended by 15 participants, including members of the Association and representatives of the academic community (UKF, EU BA, and SAV). The aim was to familiarize participants with the basic...
On February 4, K. Absolonová presented the Association's activities at the Winter Translation School conference in Banská Bystrica. Using the example of ASAP-translation.com, she explained the added value that translation companies can provide to clients and suppliers and what it means to be a professional translation company. The basic principles...
On December 5, President K. Absolonová representing ASAP-translation and E. Kosztolányiová representing Yamagata presented the Association at a panel discussion at the Department of Translation Studies at UKF Nitra on the topic of the future of the translation profession. She emphasized that translators must first gain experience, which initially...
On December 5, President K. Absolonová representing ASAP-translation and E. Kosztolányi representing Yamagata presented the Association at a panel discussion at the Department of Translation Studies at UKF Nitra on the future of the translation profession. She emphasized that translators must first gain experience, which initially requires...
On the same day, November 8, President Katarína Absolonová presented the Association's activities to English language students during a class taught by PhDr. Zora Široká and explained how student internships work at ASAP-translation. Emília Kosztolányiová from Yamagata then gave a detailed description of the work of a project manager.
On November 8, President Katarína Absolonová represented the Association and her company ASAP-translation as a representative of the industry at a meeting of the Quality Council of the Faculty of Philosophy at Cyril and Methodius University in Trnava. She expressed her appreciation that the university had created a space for representatives from...