Company History

Jakub Absolon, director of ASAP-translation.com, s.r.o. was a guest of Viveta Gene from Bureau Works on The Merging Minds podcast. The topic of the podcast was the present and future of machine translation post-editing. Jakub Absolon once again reiterated the opinion that it is necessary to update the ISO 18587:2017 standard on machine translation post-editing. This standard divides post-editing into two main categories, the so-called "partial post-editing" (Light Post-Editing) where only gross errors are removed and to "full post-Editing" (Full Post-Editing), where the result is practically identical to a human translation. This is precisely where Absolon sees the problem and claims that full post-editing is actually a normal human translation and should therefore also be properly paid. As for the future, Absolon anticipates that within a few years the post-editing and translation services will merge and only TRANSLATION will remain with the full responsibility of the translator for resulting translation and MACHINE TRANSLATION, where the risk of using such a translation is on the shoulders of the one who publishes the machine translation.

We just recently celebrated our 100,000th translation project and it's time to celebrate again! A few days ago we handed over project number 111 111. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TRUST !!!

Today, Jakub Absolon (ASAP-translation.com), as a representative of the Association of Translation Companies of Slovakia, participated in the ceremonial evaluation of the translation competition of secondary schools in the Nitra, Trnava and Trenčín regions "Young Translator", organized by the Department of Translation Studies UKF in Nitra. 43 schools took part in the competition and together they sent 400 translations to the competition. It competed in translation from French, Spanish, Russian, German and English into Slovak. ATCSK sponsored this activity, which raises awareness of translation in the public and we believe that it will attract many quality and especially enthusiastic students to study translation. In the photo with the Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to Slovakia H. Ó Riain and the organizers of the competition K. Welnitzová (left) and D. Munková (right).

On Saturday, we actively participated in the event "Studio of Professional Translation, Interpreting and Terminology". The event was organized by the Society of Translators of Professional Literature. Colleague Jakub Absolon presented his contribution "Human Translator 4.0" on new challenges for professional translators in connection with the ever-improving quality of machine translation.

The fact that we were fast not only in translation, we confirmed yesterday at the relay marathon! You will always always win with us.

Katka and Jakub presented what all the work in the field of translation brings to the students of the Department of Translation Studies at the Faculty of Arts. Thank you and we look forward to the next meetings

Here at ASAP-translation.com, even we are living conscientiously. Interpreting was provided by us at Žiť Vedomo (Living Conscientiously), a conference in Komárno devoted to the environment, health and zero waste.

On Lumenáda - The Heart of Europe, we spoke about our Green Translators project. Thank you for letting us spread the ideas behind Green Translators!

ASAP-translation.com attended Translating, Interpreting, Culture: Old Dogma, New Approaches, where Jakub Absolon was also one of the speakers.

We have attended the ENVIRO 2018 exhibition with our GREENTRANSLATORS.org project.

Jakub Absolon had a presentation at the Institute of Translation Studies of Charles University’s Faculty of Arts in Prague.

We have attended „The Slovak Matchmaking Fair“ in Košice (in the photo – Katarína Absolonová).

Jakub Absolon has attended the European Master in Translation meeting in Dublin. E. Perez, head of Department of Translation Studies of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra is in the photo with him.

We attended the TAUS roundtable discussion in Vienna. It was truly an amazing and inspirational meeting of people who are trying to look further into the future of translatology. Hopefully we will successfully implement the new ideas into our daily work in favor of not only customers, but also translators and society.

We have actively participated at MT@Work conference organized by European Commission. Jakub Absolon talked about teaching post-editing of Machine Translation (he represented the Department of Translation Studies of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra). You can find the lectures at this address: https://scic.ec.europa.eu/streaming/machine-translation

We have moved to new offices, which provides better working condition for our staff and pleasant place to meet our clients!

We have reached beautiful anniversary today. We have delivered 50 000 translation projects for our clients!

And this is how the project no. 50 000 looked in our database (no. 15 stands for the year 2015).

His speech on human resources management focused on measuring project manager productivity in a translation company environment was met with great enthusiasm from listeners.

Katarina Absolonova became Ambassador of Slovak Businesswomen as part of Supporting Female Entrepreneurs in Slovakia, a project organised under the auspices of the European Commission. Ambassadors promote female entrepreneurship and also motivate and inspire all women who are thinking about starting their own businesses, would like to become independent and self-sufficient or who are rethinking their current career choices.