Greek Translator, Greek Translation, Greek Localization

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Translatum Founder, translator, CAT tools trainer
Specializing in localization
(experienced in both Microsoft & Apple projects)

BA English Studies (MMU, UK)
MSc Machine Translation (UMIST, UK)
Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation (English to Greek)

[translation blog | poetry blog | poetry anthology | composer blog]

Papers


11-13 November 2021 13th Conference "Greek language and terminology": "Σύνταξη Γερμανοελληνικού Λεξικού 0,5 εκ. όρων με κύρια πηγή την ΙΑΤΕ" (An IATE-based German-Greek dictionary of 0.5 million terms) [presentation (pdf) | paper (pdf)]
7-9 November 2019 12th Conference "Greek language and terminology": "Rev(_i|^er)sing the LSJ" (that is "Reversing and revising the LSJ") [presentation (pptx) | paper (pdf)]
9-11 Νοεμβρίου 2017 11ο Συνέδριο «Ελληνική Γλώσσα και Ορολογία»: Ανακοίνωση με τίτλο: «Εξαγωγή ορολογίας από διαβικικούς συνδέσμους» [Περίληψη, Παρουσίαση, Ανακοίνωση]
26/5/2017 6η Συνάντηση Εργασίας Ελληνόφωνων Μεταφρασεολόγων: Ανακοίνωση με τίτλο: «Η μετάφραση βουδιστικών κειμένων στα ελληνικά» [Παρουσίαση σε PowePoint και pdf | Περίληψη | Ανακοίνωση - Προτιμήστε για λήψη την Ανακοίνωση σε ενημερωμένη μορφή στο translatum]
12-14/11/2015. 10th Conference "Hellenic Language and Terminology". Paper: Lexicalizing the forum [abstract | Paper | presentation].
23/5/2015. 5η Συνάντηση Εργασίας Ελληνόφωνων Μεταφρασεολόγων: Ανακοίνωση με τίτλο: «Ποιοτικός έλεγχος των ελληνικών αποδόσεων στην ορολογική βάση ΙΑΤΕ» [Αρχείο παρουσίασης αποθηκευμένο σε pdf στα ελληνικά και τα αγγλικά]. Εκτενέστερη και με συνεχή ανανέωση εργασία στα αγγλικά με τίτλο QA and optimization of the Greek entries in the IATE tbx export.
9/11/2013. 9th Conference "Hellenic Language and Terminology" (Athens, 7-9 November 2013). Ανακοίνωση με τίτλο: Όταν το LSJ γνώρισε τη Βίκυ (Wikifying the LSJ) [ Αρχείο παρουσίασης σε pdf | Αρχείο παρουσίασης σε Powerpoint (10MB)].

Talks / Open Seminars given

30/5/2015.Δωρεάν σεμινάριο κατάρτισης Νέων Μεταφραστών: Ποιότητα ορολογικών εργασιών στη μετάφραση της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής: Εισήγηση με τίτλο: «Φτιάχνοντας ένα ηλεκτρονικό γλωσσάριο – εργαλεία και δυνατότητες ενσωμάτωσης στη μεταφραστική ροή εργασίας» [Αρχείο παρουσίασης σε pdf].
3/4/2015. Ημερίδα της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής: «Ίδρυση Δικτύου ορολογίας για την ελληνική γλώσσα και μετάφραση» (Ακαδημία Αθηνών, συμμετοχή κατόπιν προσκλήσεως).
8/11/2014. Ημερίδα της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής: «Συνέδριο για το μέλλον των γλωσσικών επαγγελμάτων» (Πειραιάς, Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιά). Μέλος της Οργανωτικής Επιτροπής και συντονιστής της παράλληλης συνεδρίας με τίτλο: Τα ελληνικά στο λογισμικό και στο οπτικοακουστικό διαδικτυακό οικοσύστημα του 21ου αιώνα.
11/4/2014. Ημερίδα Εργασίας: «Δίκτυο ορολογίας για την ελληνική γλώσσα και μετάφραση» (Αθήνα, Αντιπροσωπεία της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής στην Ελλάδα). Ομιλία με τίτλο: Για περισσότερα και καλύτερα εργαλεία. [Πρακτικά | Ενημερωτικό Σημείωμα] και συντονιστής της κόκκινης ομάδας εργασίας.
2013 (28/9). Εκδήλωση για την Παγκόσμια Ημέρα Μετάφρασης 2013 - Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Ομιλία με τίτλο: Μεθοδολογία αναζήτησης ορολογίας για μεταφραστές, Θεωρία και πρακτική για την εύρεση και την αξιολόγηση της καταλληλότητας των όρων: Από το έντυπο λεξικό μέχρι τα σώματα κειμένων, τις μηχανές μετααναζήτησης και τα ορολογικά εργαλεία μεταφραστικού περιβάλλοντος [Λήψη pdf παρουσίασης].

Conferences (Attendance)

2011. 8th Conference "Hellenic Language and Terminology" (attendance)
2009. 9th Conference "Hellenic Language and Terminology" (attendance)

Interviews taken / Συνεντεύξεις από

2015. Ζέφυρος Καυκαλίδης
2014. Νίκος Σιδέρης


Education

2015 (February) attended a 15-hour E-lexicography course in Meta|φραση School of Translation Studies, Athens, Greece taught by Elena Mantzari.

2006 (12-21 December) attended a 12-hour Lexicography course in Meta|φραση School of Translation Studies, Athens, Greece taught by Nick Lingris.

The course dealt with:
—history and terminology of lexicography
—dictionary comparison and evaluation
—practical lexicographical issues
—lemma production
—computational lexicography and corpora
—use of the Internet as a lexicographical tool

2006 (3-7 July) attended Technology for Translation Teachers seminar in Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Instructors included Anthony Pym, Bert Esselink, Minako O'Hagan, Reinhard Schäler and Belinda Maia.

1999 Nov. Institute of Linguist's Diploma in Translation
[English into Greek]
Paper 1 (General Translation with annotations), Paper 2 (Information Technology), Paper 3 (Science)

1995-7 MSc in Machine Translation, UMIST, Language Engineering Department

Taught and dissertation conversion course consisting of the following modules:  Applied Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Translation Theory, Computational Linguistics, Prolog, Terminology, Project (evaluation of Globalink translation software - from English to Italian), MSc thesis entitled: "Points for the design of hybrid (rule-based and corpus-based) MT systems"

Download the thesis as zip file 42KB [final format Word 2000]

Check out my machine translation links

1992-5 BA in English Studies,
Manchester Metropolitan University, Grade: II.i

in detail

1992-3 Edge Hill University

1st yr BA (Hons) in combined French & English Studies

English (Language & Literature) 73
(the linguistic aspect involved phonetics, sentence analysis, pragmatics,
transformational-generative grammar, semantics, sociolinguistics)
French (Language & Literature) 56
European Studies 56

1993-4 transfer to Manchester Metropolitan University

2nd yr BA English Studies Single Honours

Working Class Writing 68
18th & 19th century poetry 61
Modern Criticism 67
Text in Performance 65

sample essays:

Sex, Sade, Paglia and the Romantic Imperative
Eros, Thanatos and the negation of the will-to-live in Larkin's Poetry
The difference between signifier and signified
(An essay on Saussurian linguistics)

1994-5 3rd yr

Contemporary Critical Theory 59
Contemporary English 69 (sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics)
Shakespeare in Performance 54
20th Century Poetry 68

Dissertation entitled "Metaphysics of Art" (A study on the theory of art
of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer)
Download it [zip 45KB]

1993 Sep. Two-week Erasmus Course in France
(Universite Paul Valery, Amiens)

1991-2 A Levels (AEB).

Greek A
English Literature C

1990-1 Translation and Interpretation Studies at the European Educational
Organization (English and French).

1990 Cambridge Proficiency C 1990

"Apolytirion", 2nd Lyceum of Corfu 15

Work Experience

Book translations (from English into Greek)

2003 The Manual of Trigger Point and Myofascial Therapy, Dimitrios Kostopoulos, Konstantine Rizopoulos
Publisher: Digital Copy Center

(This guide offers the reader a comprehensive theraputic approach for the evaluation and treatment of myofascial pain and musculoskeletal dysfunction. This manual serves as a quick reference for clinically relevant items that pertain to the identification and management of trigger points. The first section of the book covers the therapy and research regarding the Myofascial Trigger Point Syndrome. Treatment methods and techniques are also covered in a comprehensive step-by-step format. The second section includes the most important muscles that tend to have a higher incidence of the myofascial involvement. Each muscle is supplemented by two pages of text and illustrations in order to aid the student or clinician in an institutional or practicing setting. The muscle page contains a plethora of information for the reader including muscle origin, insertion, location of trigger points, referenced pain patterns, myofascial stretching exercises, positive stretch signs, and biomechanics of injury.)

2003 by Digital Copy Publications, Athens.
Buy English original on line: Amazon.com | Amazon UK

Check out my English-Greek Medical Glossary (Muscles)



2002 Questions from the City, Answers from the Forest: Simple Lessons You Can Use from a Western Buddhist Monk, Sumano, et al,
Kyveli Publications
(Uses a distillation of Buddhist wisdom to answer the questions of "city" people who sought out the author, an American Buddhist, in his forest retreat to obtain his answers to life's most basic questions.)
Buy English original on line: Amazon.com | Amazon UK
Link to Greek Translation

2001 The Life of the Buddha, Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Kyveli Publications
(This books provides a rough chronological description of the Buddha's life and teaching based on the Pali canon, the oldest and most complete systematic treatment of classical Buddhism.)
Buy English original on line: Amazon.com | Amazon UK

Check out my Buddhist dictionaries and e-texts links

2000 Change Your Mind, Paramananda, Kyveli Publications
(Buddhism is based on the truth that, with effort, we can change the way we are, and among the many methods Buddhism has to offer, meditation is the most direct. It is the art of getting to know one's own mind and learning to encourage what is best in us. This book focuses on two Buddhist meditation practices - mindfulness of breathing (the bedrock of all meditation practice) and Metta Bhavana, which aims gradually to nurture an unshakeable confidence and a concern for the welfare of others. The practical aspects of meditation are addressed, including the maintenance of a regular meditation practice and dealing with any difficulties that arise. )
Read English excerpts
Read Greek excerpts
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Buy Greek Translation on line

1999 Quotations on Music, (selection and trans. by myself), Afaton Publications
Read Greek excerpts
Buy on line

1999 Vision and Transformation, An Introduction to the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, Sangharaksita, Afaton Publications
Read the Greek translation
Buy Greek translation on line
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1998 Rent Boy, Gary Indiana, Periplous Publications.
(The adventures of Danny, architectural student, waiter and rent boy, who escorts anyone - male, female or otherwise - who can afford him. Then his liaison with another rent boy involves him in a grisly organ selling ring. This black comedy exposes the fundamental immorality of modern society)
Buy on line
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1998 The Distant Lover, by Cristoph Hein, Periplous Publications.
Buy on line
(Written by the East German author who won the Heinrich Mann Prize, this novel is an account of a life half-lived, of the price of safety, of the abysses that open beneath the best-ordered, most enlightened modern lives - whether in East Berlin, West Berlin or New York City.)
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1998 The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Periplous Publications. (unpublished)
(After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the moors. Then one day, she discovers the key to a secret garden and, as if by magic, her life begins to change.)
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All published books/translations in Greece as they appear in biblionet

Teaching:

2007 Software and Website Localization course for Metaφραση School of translation Studies
2005-now Teaching CAT tools and Microsoft Word in meta|φραση School of translation Studies
Official MetaTexis trainer (also localized the program)

2007 June + July. Working at IBM Hellas localizing Eclipse (open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle) using IBM translation manager.
2005 May + June. Working for ORCO localization company in Athens Greece on a major Computer Associates project.
2003 editor and major contributor for Magenta's bidirectional English-Greek Information Technology Dictionary.
1997-now. Working as freelance translator in Athens - collaborating with numerous translation agencies.
2002-onwards Senior Advisor for TelePassport Telecommunications. Member of their Multi Level Marketing (MLM) program. Registered over 100 clients and promoted the company's services.
2002 Developed a course entitled "Information Technology for Translators" for the Athenian Translation School Metafrasi.

This entailed the creation of a syllabus for a 60 hour course including exercizes, the selection of translator-related software and files (including Word-processing software, custom-built Word macros, Proofing Tools, CD ROM dictionaries, Translation Memory software, Terminology Management software, measurement converters, downloadable dictionaries and reference resources, etc), the collection and classification of on-line tutorials and other useful links (in a favorites file) and advice on computer-lab ergonomics.

2001 Founded www.translatum.gr "The Greek translation Vortal" currently (07.07.2008) ranking 53,342 according to Alexa (check rank now).

1999 Founded "Afaton" ("Ineffable") Publications which specialize in the translation of Eastern Philosophy

1996-7 Worked as a freelance translator in Manchester

1995-6 "Temping" as a data-entry clerk in Manchester
1992-3 Voluntary work as English Teacher to foreigners in Skelmersdale College, Lancashire, England.

Grants

Grant from the European Social Fund for the Machine Translation course at UMIST covering fees and maintenance