AZ World Translations Blog
Translating for the Mining Industry
When I began working in the mining industry in 1994, on the construction of the Zaldivar mine in Chile, the price of gold was below US$400 per ounce and copper was below $0.90 per pound. Today, gold is over US$3,200 per ounce and copper is over $4.60 per pound. You...
How are AI, Machine Translation & Neural Machine Translation different?
Artificial Intelligence Translation (AIT) - the big umbrella Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science focused on making computers and machines “smart”— making them capable of learning, reasoning, and solving problems like humans. Artificial...
Misadventures Ordering Breakfast
Years ago, while working as an internal auditor for a large gold mining company, I was in Val d’Or, Quebec auditing two gold mines that my company had in the area. I was there with a colleague from Chile for two weeks; Pablo is Chilean and speaks both Spanish and...
Translation of large mining projects
Over 18 years ago, I received a call asking if “I” could translate some mining documents. Happy to get a new client, I said eagerly said “Yes!”, and when I asked how many pages or words the project had, I was told that they did not know, but that some documents were...
5 Tricky Healthcare Terms that Prove the Need for Professional Translation Services
Whether you are a healthcare organization seeking to overcome the language barrier between providers and patients, a business expanding into foreign markets, or an organization negotiating contracts, entrusting your translations to a professional is essential for...